McRae Stands Firm as Magpies Prepare for St Kilda Showdown
Craig McRae has flatly denied being approached by Carlton and addressed unfair personal rumours as Collingwood prepares to face St Kilda at the MCG on Sunday.
Patrick Donnelly Article Archive
All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
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Semester Crunch: Universities Battle Shortage as Students Hunt Rooms
With university semester underway, thousands of Australian students are scrambling to find accommodation as universities report critical housing shortages. The crisis threatens to undermine access to higher education, particularly for regional and first-year students.
Grace Okonkwo 
Ferrari's Early Statement As McLaren Stumbles Into New Era
Ferrari made the strongest opening statement of Formula 1's new regulatory era Friday, with Charles Leclerc fastest in opening practice. McLaren's defending champions faced immediate hurdles.
Patrick Donnelly 
TikTok Refuses to Encrypt DMs, Citing Safety Over Privacy
TikTok has told the BBC it will not introduce end-to-end encryption for direct messages, arguing the technology makes users less safe. The decision sets it apart from WhatsApp, iMessage, and Messenger.
Darren Ong 
Race Against the Clock: Volunteers Rally to Save Myrient's 390TB Gaming Archive
Myrient, a 390TB retro game archive, shuts down March 31 as AI-driven hardware costs crush its finances. Volunteers are racing to save it all.
Tom Whitfield 
Fake Google Security Page Turns Your Browser Into a Spy
Malwarebytes has flagged a fake Google Account security page that deploys one of the most capable browser-based surveillance toolkits ever documented in the wild.
Nadia Souris UK Digital ID Programme Left in Limbo After Minister's Resignation
Labour MP James Frith has been appointed to replace Josh Simons as the UK's digital government minister, following Simons' resignation over a journalist-vetting scandal despite being cleared of breaching the ministerial code.
Marcus Ashbrook 
Bungie's Marathon Arrives Thursday: Here's When Australians Can Play
Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter Marathon hits PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC this week, with Australian players able to jump in from 5am AEST on Friday, March 6.
Sophia Vargas 
The Man Behind Gaming's Most Desired Jawline Has Seen Your Posts
The actor behind Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem has seen the internet's thirst trap content and finds it "funny as hell." A reminder that video game fame is a genuinely strange thing.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Nvidia's Latest GPU Driver Caps Voltages, Cutting Overclocking Headroom
Nvidia's 595.71 GPU driver is reportedly capping voltages on RTX 40 and 50 series cards, costing some users hundreds of megahertz in overclocking performance.
Helen Cartwright 
Cold War Spy Trick Still Haunts Your Laptop, Congress Warns
An 80-year-old spy technique once codenamed TEMPEST by the NSA may still threaten civilian devices. US lawmakers want the Government Accountability Office to find out how bad the risk really is.
Sarah Cheng From Barcelona to Your Pocket: MWC 2026's Boldest Tech Bets
MWC 2026 closed in Barcelona with Lenovo, Honor, and Xiaomi unveiling hardware that blurs the line between phone, laptop, and robot.
Sophia Vargas 
Oil at $84 and Tehran in Flames: What Iran's War Means for Australia
Brent crude has surged past $84 a barrel as the fifth day of war between the US, Israel and Iran brings mounting casualties and a near-total halt to Strait of Hormuz shipping.
Mitchell Tan 
The Machine Cannot Own What It Creates: America's Highest Court Slams the Door on AI Copyright
The US Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted, leaving the law clear in one direction: only humans need apply.
Daniel Kovac Capita wins £370m Whitehall contract at less than 40% of estimated value, rival cries foul
Capita has confirmed a £370m UK government outsourcing win already facing a court challenge from rival Sopra Steria over alleged procurement irregularities.
Rachel Thornbury 
Micron's 256GB Memory Module Opens a New Era for AI Data Centres
Micron has begun shipping samples of the world's first 256GB SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory module, a milestone that could reshape AI server economics.
Oliver Pemberton 
Scientists Are Trying to Talk to DMT Entities. The Price Tag Is $9,500.
A luxury psychedelic retreat on the Caribbean island of Bequia is combining DMT research with alien-entity contact experiments. Science or spectacle?
Mitchell Tan 
Iranian Frigate Sinks Off Sri Lanka as Conflict Reaches the Indian Ocean
The Iranian frigate IRIS Dena has sunk off the southern Sri Lankan coast, with over 100 sailors missing, as the wider US-Israel conflict with Iran enters its fifth day.
Zara Mitchell 
Murder Charge Laid After Man Found Dead in Yanchep Bushland
WA Police have charged a 30-year-old man with murder after a 27-year-old was found dead on a gravel track in bushland at Yanchep, north of Perth.
Sarah Cheng 
Resident Evil Requiem Hits 5 Million Sales in Five Days, Setting Franchise Record
Resident Evil Requiem has sold 5 million copies in just five days, surpassing the launch pace of Village and the RE4 remake to become the fastest-selling entry in franchise history.
Priya Narayanan Pencil, Memory, and a Burmese Prison: How One Cartoonist Turned Captivity into Comics
New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil has transformed her cousin's six-month imprisonment in Myanmar into a long-form interactive comic, raising questions about craft, storytelling, and press freedom.
Priya Narayanan 
Crimson Desert Dev Pushes Back on Console Footage 'Entitlement' Claims
Pearl Abyss is under pressure to show Crimson Desert running on base PS5 and Xbox Series X, with fans citing Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous console launch as a cautionary tale.
Tom Whitfield 
Is Kalshi a Finance Platform or a Betting Shop in a Suit?
Kalshi lets you wager on anything from football results to foreign invasions. Its CEO insists it's a financial exchange, not a bookmaker. The courts aren't so sure.
Andrew Marsh Microsoft's Email Gatekeeping Is Freezing Out Legitimate Businesses
Businesses across the globe report legitimate emails bouncing off Outlook.com since late January, with Microsoft offering little explanation and less support.
Nina Papadopoulos Strange Bedfellows: Inside the Secret AI Summit That United Left and Right
Around 90 political and community leaders gathered secretly in New Orleans in January, unaware of who else had been invited. The meeting was the starting gun for one of the most unusual coalitions in AI governance.
Helen Cartwright UK Cloud Watchdog in Crisis as Inquiry Chair Walks Out Over Inaction
Kip Meeks has quit as chair of the UK's landmark cloud inquiry, warning regulators are moving too slowly against AWS and Microsoft. The timing, with an ex-Amazon boss now heading the CMA, is drawing scrutiny.
Oliver Pemberton Activision Silences Call of Duty's Most Trusted Leaker
Activision has legally forced one of the Call of Duty community's most trusted insiders, TheGhostOfHope, to stop leaking confidential information about the franchise.
Jake Nguyen 
Vinyl Is Back. Here's What Nobody Tells First-Time Buyers
Vinyl sales are booming and turntable guides are multiplying. But most of what you read about buying your first record player gets the fundamentals wrong.
Riley Fitzgerald 
The Melbourne Man Helping Rewire What a Brain Implant Can Do
Melbourne's Rodney Gorham has lived with a Synchron brain implant longer than anyone else, and his daily experiments are shaping the future of brain-computer interfaces.
Zara Mitchell 
Boland Raises Alarm Over MCG Turf Ahead of Shield Final
Scott Boland has voiced concern about the MCG surface ahead of the Sheffield Shield final, with AFL action threatening pitch integrity before the March 26 decider.
Patrick Donnelly