Two teenagers dead after fall on closed Mt Beerwah trail
Two Brisbane teenagers have died after falling on Mt Beerwah's summit track despite the mountain being officially closed due to dangerous wet conditions.
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Marathon gets new map, duos mode test, and major balance updates
Marathon receives a major content update with the addition of Cryo Archive map, a limited-time duos queue test, and significant balance changes including shotgun adjustments and expanded exfiltration options for downed players.
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Sydney's $78m Ferry Wharves Open—But Without the Ferries
Completed wharves at La Perouse and Kurnell in Botany Bay remain without ferry services after costs ballooned from $18 million to $78 million. Transport NSW is now exploring whether private operators might eventually revive the connection.
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NASA delays Artemis II rollout by one day to fix wiring issue
NASA has postponed the rollout of its Artemis II moon rocket by one day to March 20 after discovering a faulty electrical harness in the flight termination safety system, though April 1 launch remains on track.
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Microsoft's MicroLED cables could reshape AI datacenter power costs
Microsoft's MOSAIC technology replaces expensive lasers with MicroLEDs to cut datacenter cable energy use by roughly 50%. The system is expected to enter commercial production with industry partners by late 2027.
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Nvidia's BlueField-4 Storage Architecture Targets AI Agent Bottleneck
Nvidia unveiled BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026, a modular storage architecture designed to solve data access bottlenecks limiting agentic AI inference performance.
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How a Sims 4 programmer rewrote the entire AI from scratch mid-development
The lead AI programmer on The Sims 4 made a bold call during development: completely rebuild the system controlling how Sims behave, just weeks before the game's alpha phase.
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Aqara's Matter camera breaks the smart home lock-in problem
Aqara has released the G350, the world's first Matter-certified indoor security camera. While it signals progress toward open smart home standards, platform inconsistencies highlight how fragmentation persists despite the promise of unified control.
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Samsung pulls the plug on Galaxy Z TriFold after just three months
Samsung is discontinuing its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone just three months after launch, citing production costs that make the device impossible to sell profitably.
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Swiss-built internet alternative challenges four decades of flawed routing
Switzerland has quietly built a replacement for the internet's fundamental routing protocol, addressing vulnerabilities that have plagued global networks since the 1980s. Yet despite working solutions in production use, adoption remains glacial.
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Australia's weak fuel shield exposes a decade of planning failures
Australia holds only 36 days of petrol reserves, falls short of international standards, and relies on nine foreign tanker networks. The Iran conflict has exposed structural vulnerabilities years in the making.
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AirAsia warns travellers of fake customer service scam spreading on social media
AirAsia has issued an urgent warning about fake customer service accounts circulating on social media, as scammers pose as airline representatives to steal personal and financial data from travellers.
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A retired Microsoft engineer is teaching AI to survive arcade chaos
A former Microsoft engineer famous for building Windows Task Manager is now training AI to master Robotron: 2084, a brutally difficult 1982 arcade game that puts machines through a real-time stress test of decision-making under chaos.
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Sydney schoolgirl's account of five-hour bullying attack raises questions about school safety
A 13-year-old Sydney schoolgirl has spoken publicly about a five-hour bullying incident involving physical violence and humiliation, raising questions about school duty of care.
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Can AI Escape the Arcade's Cruelest Game?
Dave Plummer is teaching AI to master one of the most brutally difficult arcade games ever designed. Robotron: 2084 demands split-second decisions and conflicting goals. Can machines learn what humans barely master.
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First AMD Zen 6 Mobile Processor Surfaces in Geekbench Leak
AMD's next-generation Zen 6 mobile processor has appeared in benchmark results, offering the first tangible evidence the company is testing these chips for 2027 launch.
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Tasmania's West Coast: Wild Beauty Built on Dark History
Tasmania's West Coast offers pristine wilderness and profound historical tragedy in equal measure, from ancient rainforest to the brutal legacy of Sarah Island.
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California's Age Verification Gamble Could Backfire—Just Ask Texas
California's new Digital Age Assurance Act mandates OS-level age verification starting 2027, but faces implementation chaos and legal vulnerability after Texas's similar law was blocked.
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Can the Titans rebuild work? Inside Gould and Meninga's blueprint
Phil Gould and Mal Meninga outline the framework needed to turn around the struggling Gold Coast Titans, but Round 1's heavy loss raises immediate questions.
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Queen Mary's Casual Style Sets Tone for Australian Homecoming
Queen Mary has chosen understated styling for her first official Australian visit as monarch, wearing local touches like an Akubra as she reconnects with her Tasmanian roots.
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