Teens who attack rugby great during home invasion have sentences upheld
The boy — aged 15 at the time of the offence — were sentenced to seven and eight years in prison respectively after attacking rugby union great Toutai Kefu and his family at their home. ⌘ Read more
What police hope a new search for Madeleine McCann uncovers
The disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann remains unsolved after 18 years. Now Portuguese and German police have launched fresh searches to find her. ⌘ Read more
Outback community’s ethereal-looking rock formation a ‘peaceful place’
Many in the remote iron ore mining town of Pannawonica call it the Panna Hill, but Robe River Kuruma people know it as Parlapuni. ⌘ Read more
Hot air balloons help town hold its own in the battle for tourists
A West Australian town marketing itself as the “ballooning capital of Australia” welcomes more than 8,000 guests to witness skies filled with colour and light. ⌘ Read more
Biden spokesman who defended Israel now says it committed war crimes
Matthew Miller, the top US State Department spokesperson who sparred with journalists when they raised allegations of war crimes, now says Israel has “without a doubt” committed war crimes in Gaza. ⌘ Read more
Breaking: Minimum and award wages to rise 3.5 per cent from July
Millions of Australian workers will get a 3.5 per cent pay rise from July 1, following the Fair Work Commission’s annual review of the minimum wage and award agreements. Inflation is currently at 2.4 per cent annually. ⌘ Read more
King of the Hill voice actor shot dead in Texas
The 59-year-old’s husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales alleged the couple had been victims of homophobic abuse. ⌘ Read more
Live: Erin Patterson to return to the witness stand at her murder trial
Erin Patterson is expected to continue giving evidence for a second day in her triple murder trial. She’s accused of murdering three relatives by serving them a meal that contained death cap mushrooms. Follow the trial live. ⌘ Read more
Woman’s stubborn cough turns out to be deadly disease
A Queensland childhood educator says pushing her doctor for further testing saved her life after she struggled to shake a persistent cough. ⌘ Read more
New doco lets us eavesdrop on John and Yoko’s conversations in the 70s
One To One: John & Yoko takes us inside the lives of the famous couple as they agitate for revolution in their new home city of New York. ⌘ Read more
‘Emotions can run high’: Verstappen addresses Russell incident
Max Verstappen stops short of apologising for an incident involving George Russell at the Barcelona Grand Prix. ⌘ Read more
He drank my whole protein shake and now he can’t stop flexing. Please help ⌘ Read more
Telstra launches satellite messsaging
Telstra is launching satellite messaging, which allows a standard mobile phone to connect to the Telstra network via the SpaceX Starling satellite network. ⌘ Read more
Man hit by e-scooter still in critical condition as neighbours pay tribute
Neighbours describe a man who was critically injured when he was hit by an e-scooter, allegedly being ridden by a woman under the influence of alcohol in Perth, as a “kind and gentle” soul. ⌘ Read more
My cat had black eyes on day one: Now she’s coming up to 3 years old and better than ever. ⌘ Read more
Comparison site Choosi sued for allegedly only comparing single insurer
ASIC is suing insurance comparison provider Choosi for allegedly accepting $61 million in commissions to solely advertise services from one insurance company, Hannover. ⌘ Read more
Live: Millions await minimum wage decision, with impact on consumer spending and interest rates
Millions await minimum wage decision, which could impact consumer spending and interest rates. Follow live. ⌘ Read more
Conformance Checking at MongoDB: Testing That Our Code Matches Our TLA+ Specs | MongoDB Blog
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‘Relatively high’ antibiotic trace found in wild fish during February salmon deaths, report finds
The EPA report says eight samples of wild fish were taken in the Zuidpool North lease, with three samples — all blue mackerel — testing above the reporting threshold. One sample site showed a result 12 times higher than the maximum antibiotic threshold for commercially sold salmon. ⌘ Read more
‘Something new to me’: Kasatkina praises Aussie fans after French Open exit
Australia’s Daria Kasatkina bows out of the French Open but pays tribute to her new Aussie fans. ⌘ Read more
Explaining cloudd, photolibraryd, & cloudphotod Processes in MacOS
If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever opened Activity Monitor to explore why your Mac might be feeling slow, it’s likely that you’ve seen a few processes running that could be using a lot of CPU, energy, or memory, in particular cloudd, cloudphotod, photolibraryd, and nsurlsessiond. So what the heck are these processes that … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/02/explaining-cloudd-photolibraryd- … ⌘ Read more
Bare-knuckle ‘boxing’ in parliament is a spectacle, but with more at stake
Bare-knuckle boxing is a fitting metaphor for politics — adults whacking each other for sport — the difference is boxers volunteer to punch and get punched, while the public bear the consequences of politicians brandishing their knuckles in parliament. ⌘ Read more
Family pleads for answers 18 years after baffling, cult-linked disappearance
The family of Chantelle McDougall and her daughter Leela appeals for information as they continue to live with the “emotional roller-coaster” of their 2007 disappearance. ⌘ Read more
Struggling dairy farmers disappointed with milk prices
“Farm exits” are predicted amid drought and floods as dairy companies announce their minimum farm gate milk prices for the next financial year. ⌘ Read more
Live: Cox defects from Greens to boost Labor Senate majority
The senator’s defection from the Greens to Labor will increase the government’s numbers in the Upper House. Follow live. ⌘ Read more
Buried for 80 years with the wrong name, Charlie Bob finally comes home
More than a century after his real name was written out of history, a chance encounter and a lucky find at a rubbish tip restore a soldier’s true identity and return him to his family. ⌘ Read more
Felt like sharing a couple pic of my kitten Olive ⌘ Read more
The overlooked link between perimenopause and disordered eating
Women are at risk of developing an eating disorder during perimenopause but there is a lack of research, education and support. ⌘ Read more
Deals: M4 MacBook Air Deals – 13″ 16GB/256GB for $837, And $260 Off the 15″ 24GB / 512GB Model
The M4 MacBook Air is available at some all-time lowest prices from Amazon, with a whopper of a deal taking $160 off the base model 13″ 16GB/256GB and $260 off the 15″ 24GB/512GB models. If you’ve been thinking about getting a new MacBook Air in either 13″ or 15″ screen sizes, these deals are fantastic … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2 … ⌘ Read more
Settings Management for Docker Desktop now generally available in the Admin Console
We’re excited to announce that Settings Management for Docker Desktop is now Generally Available! Settings Management can be configured in the Admin Console for customers with a Docker Business subscription. After a successful Early Access period, this powerful administrative solution has been enhanced with new compliance reporting capabilities, completing our vision for … ⌘ Read more
Former Coles supermarket worker says Kumanjayi White clearly needed support
Former Alice Springs Coles worker Gene Hill says it was clear an Aboriginal man who died in police custody at the supermarket last week had a disability and needed extra support. ⌘ Read more
Crackdown on cosmetic injectables industry putting profit before patients
The Australian health practitioner regulator introduces sweeping new guidelines for dentists and nurses performing non-surgical cosmetic injectable procedures, in a bid to better protect consumers. ⌘ Read more
Colorado terror attack suspect charged with hate crime
FBI documents allege Mohamed Sabry Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower and threw Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel group in an attack he says he planned for more than a year. ⌘ Read more
Just found out my girl passed while I’m on vacation ⌘ Read more
Brisbane’s Exhibition station to reopen for major events
The station has been closed in recent years while it underwent a significant upgrade as part of Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project. ⌘ Read more
An Adelaide fashion icon died after using magic mushrooms. Her family wants answers
SA fashion entrepreneur Carol Foord turned to alternative treatments before her death. A year on her family is still seeking answers about how her final hours played out. ⌘ Read more
Tasmanian land program yet to deliver affordable lots for homes
Developers in Tasmania can apply for a rebate to offset some of the costs associated with subdivisions. It’s part of a program aimed at fast-tracking lots for “affordable” sales but, after 10 months not one affordable lot has been sold. ⌘ Read more
NFL Flag’s quest to become a top-three Australian sport
Amercia’s NFL Flag Football is rapidly growing in popularity worldwide and has invested heavily in the Australian market. ⌘ Read more
Had to unexpectedly say goodbye to our little Ellie. She was only 4 years old. ⌘ Read more
Eid al-Adha falls on a Friday this year. It could mean a lot of barbecues on the weekend
One of the biggest holidays on the Islamic calendar is happening on Friday. Here’s how it’s different to a feasting day with a similar name structure. ⌘ Read more
Older Australians are losing millions in scams involving crypto ATMs
Australians are losing millions of dollars each year to scams involving cash deposits at cryptocurrency ATMs — machines authorities warn are increasingly being exploited by criminals for money laundering. The rapid rise of crypto ATMs has outpaced regulation, creating opportunities for criminal misuse. ⌘ Read more
Experts warn demand for public housing outstripping supply
New research shows demand for social housing has grown at the same time as the number of people helped into homes slowed around the country. ⌘ Read more
The diabetes program lifting people out a ‘really dark place’
When Kelly Anderson suddenly lost her daughter, she became depressed and rapidly gained weight. A community exercise program helped turn her life around. ⌘ Read more
Drought delivers 8 per cent cut to grain production estimates
With this year’s winter grain crop planted, ABARES estimates drought and dry conditions in SA, Victoria and NSW will see lower harvest totals this summer. ⌘ Read more
Would you accept seven weeks without bank access? Why is super different?
Australia’s superannuation pool is worth nearly $4.2 trillion — the funds are undoubtedly extremely adept at taking members’ money. But when it comes helping members to access it, they are falling short. ⌘ Read more
[OC] Tired of manual file-hopping in Vim? Meet vgo-jump ⌘ Read more
‘I pleaded with them to admit her’: Families’ struggles with mental health care
Distraught families say the New South Wales public mental health system abandoned their loved ones when they needed care the most — and doctors warn the crisis is only getting worse. ⌘ Read more
Goodbye my beautiful girl of 20 years 😢 ⌘ Read more
My dad who “didn’t want another cat” ⌘ Read more
UK unveils radical defence overhaul as Starmer eyes Russian threat
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the UK the “moment has arrived to transform how we defend ourselves” but has not given a date when UK defence spending will rise to 3 per cent of GDP. ⌘ Read more
As of version 9.1 vim is supposed to support XDG specification. The below config works correctly on 9.1.1230 but not on 9.1.83. Anybody know why? ⌘ Read more
Alpine Linux 3.22.0 released
Version\
3.22.0 of the Alpine Linux distribution has been released. Notable
changes in this release include the removal of the X11 session for KDE
Plasma, a switch to systemd-efistub, and experimental support
for user\
services with the OpenRC
init system. See the [release\
notes](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Rele … ⌘ Read more
[$] Hardening fixes lead to hard questions
Kees Cook’s “hardening\
fixes” pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a
straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about
everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked
from his kernel.org account among fears of malicious activity. When the
dust settled, though, the red alert was canceled. It turns out,
surprisingly, that Git is a tool with which one can inflict substantial … ⌘ Read more
Less TODO, more done: The difference between coding agent and agent mode in GitHub Copilot
We’ll decode these two tools—and show you how to use them both to work more efficiently.
The post Less TODO, more done: The difference between coding agent and agent mode in GitHub Copilot appeared first on [Th … ⌘ Read more
[$] OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora
Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again,
causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time
around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for
months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube\
Goldberg machine methodology of distributing the library to Fedora
users. The software is open source under a two-clause BSD license; the RPMs are … ⌘ Read more
Ukraine attack on Russian nuclear bombers overshadows peace talks in Turkiye
Negotiations yielded little progress but Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed there would be a fresh prisoner of war-swap between the two countries. ⌘ Read more
Birthday boy ⌘ Read more
How could you, Google? ⌘ Read more
Snick is just chilling ⌘ Read more
How Telstra’s new satellite-to-mobile messaging lets you text using Starlink
Telstra has become the first Australian telco to activate “direct to cell” functionality with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. ⌘ Read more
Mount Etna suddenly erupts, sends tourist fleeing for safety
Mount Etna, an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, erupted on Monday, sending tourists on the mountain running for safety. ⌘ Read more
WhisperD: linux voice-to-text using OpenAI whisper-1 transcription
I wrote this as an exercise to learn how to use ioctl & input devices, but I like how it turned out! It does have a hard dependency on pipewire though.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (espeak-ng, kitty, kmail-account-wizard, krb5, libreoffice, libvpx, net-tools, python-flask-cors, symfony, tcpdf, thunderbird, and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (chromium, dropbear, firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, python-tornado, systemd, and thunderbird), Mageia (coreutils, deluge, glib2.0, and redis), Oracle (firefox, kernel, and systemd), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, varnish, varnish:6, and zlib), SUSE (bind, curl, dnsdist, … ⌘ Read more
Ballerina Cappuccina. Tadan! ⌘ Read more
She always makes sure I’m not working alone ⌘ Read more
Maybe she was expecting a big nomnom, what would this be? ⌘ Read more
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Jailed activist ‘worried’ for mother hospitalised after 242-day hunger strike
Laila Soueif’s family says the 69-year-old is close to death after the lengthy hunger strike in protest of her son’s detention. ⌘ Read more
Tools and datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure
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What are you doing this week?
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Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more
Man’s body found with multiple stab wounds in ‘drug deal gone horribly wrong’
NSW Police are treating the discovery of a man’s body at a property at Croydon Park as a homicide, describing the man’s injuries as “horrific”. ⌘ Read more
Inquest hears father unaware of 11yo’s snakebite before boy died
A Queensland coronial inquest hears the boy may have “snuck” bourbon from an esky before his death, and his father attributed his sickness to alcohol. ⌘ Read more
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Mica Rosenberg, Trevizo, Melissa Sanchez,Gabriel Sandoval; Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde, Adrián González, Reporters - ProPublica | Texas Tribune | Cazadores de Fake News (Venezuela)
_Stephan: The fascist playbook, which Trump and the Republican Party are following to the letter, teach … ⌘ Read more
AI DISASTER: Fears AI will leave Earth with population ‘the size of UK’ by 2300 & turn entire countries into apocalyptic wastelands
David Rivers and Sayan Bose, - The U.S. Sun
_Stephan: The remote viewers who have participated in my 47-year-long remote viewing of the future project, which began in 1978, to described a future radically different than the present day. One of the things that stood … ⌘ Read more
Appeals Court Strips Voters’ Ability to File Voting Rights Act Lawsuits in 7 States
Andrew Garber, - Brennan Center for Justice
Stephan: Parts of the Judicial system are still honorable and law-abiding, parts are not. This is going to mean a lot as the 2026 election comes closer. Here is an example showing what I mean.
_Credit: Frame S … ⌘ Read moreApple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week
WWDC 2025 will kick off with Apple’s keynote on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and the page where the presentation will be live streamed is now available on YouTube. On the page, you can set a reminder to be notified before the keynote begins.
Apple will announce its latest software updates, including [iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS … ⌘ Read more
Meanwhile, back in the real world
Bill McKibben, Commentator - The Crucial Years
Stephan: I think Bill McKibben describes quite accurately what is going on with the Trump Republican coup. And yet over 40 per cent of Americans continue to support what he is doing. Here is Nat Silver’s latest poll report:
_“But what can we learn from the polls we do have? Well it’s a mixed bag. In the latest AtlasIntel poll, Donald Trump’s approval r … ⌘ Read more