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
Zelenskyy comments on Russians’ idea of a “partial” ceasefire: “Idiots” ⌘ Read more
Trump ‘Not Given Heads-Up’ on Ukraine’s Far-Reaching Drone Strikes in Russia, Officials Say ⌘ Read more
Russia’s Medinsky called Ukraine’s demand for return of deported children a “show for European old ladies” ⌘ Read more
U.S. nuclear deal offer allows Iran to enrich uranium ⌘ Read more
Goodbye my beautiful girl of 20 years 😢 ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian warplanes was a serious blow to the Kremlin’s strategic arsenal ⌘ 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
Bill Gates to give most of his $200 billion fortune to Africa ⌘ Read more
Alpine Linux 3.22.0 released
Version\
3.22.0 of the Alpine Linux distribution has been released. Notable
changes in this release include the removal of the X11 session for KDE
Plasma, a switch to systemd-efistub, and experimental support
for user\
services with the OpenRC
init system. See the [release\
notes](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Rele … ⌘ Read more
[$] 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
Russian Aviation’s Darkest Hour Since WWII Gets 40-Second TV News Slot ⌘ 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
Ukraine and Russia agree to swap 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in three-year war ⌘ 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
EU ambassador on Ukrainian operation targeting aircraft in Russia: Ukraine has cards ⌘ Read more
Ballerina Cappuccina. Tadan! ⌘ Read more
She always makes sure I’m not working alone ⌘ Read more
Wild videos capture fiery scenes from a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers shielded by tires ⌘ Read more
Maybe she was expecting a big nomnom, what would this be? ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s special operation “Spiderweb” that damaged 41 Russian bomber plans costed Russia $7 billion ⌘ Read more
Who said I love cats? ⌘ Read more
Trump reportedly wasn’t informed in advance about Ukraine’s drone strike on Russian bombers ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s Security Service head sums up results of operation to destroy Russian strategic jets ⌘ 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
Comments ⌘ Read more
‘Now The War Has Reached Us Too,’ Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks ⌘ Read more
CPU - Cat Petting Unit ⌘ Read more
What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!
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
Triple-0 call played, CFA captain speaks in Christmas Eve murder trial
A Supreme Court jury has heard a triple-0 call and viewed images of human remains in the trial of three people accused of kidnapping and murdering 19-year-old Charlie Gander in 2022. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s drone attack the latest in a series of daring David versus Goliath hits against Russian targets ⌘ Read more
My new kitten and I 🖤 ⌘ Read more
Live: Matildas looking to impress against Argentina after Montemurro hire
Incoming coach Joe Montemurro watches on as the Matildas farewell interim coach Tom Sermanni against Argentina in Canberra. Follow live. ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian delegation arrives in Istanbul for talks with Russia ⌘ Read more
Greens senator defects to Labor
Dorinda Cox, who was the Greens’ only Indigenous representative in the federal parliament, has left the party. ⌘ Read more
China accuses Trump of violation, threatens “forceful measures” ⌘ Read more
Reverend thankful parishioners uninjured after car crashes into church
A car that left the Princes Highway crashed through one door of a West Wollongong church and out another. ⌘ Read more
Super Netball debut for 40-year-old ‘fossil’ sparks global headlines
New Zealand centurion Casey Kopua received an SOS call from the Giants and was on a plane the next day. Coming out of retirement, it was the almost 40-year-old world champion’s first elite netball game in six years. ⌘ Read more
Right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election
The conservative candidate, who is backed by US President Donald Trump, has won Poland’s weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count on Monday. ⌘ Read more
Blues Origin star Barnett to miss remainder of 2025 with knee injury
New South Wales’ State of Origin campaign takes a major hit as scans reveal an ACL rupture in Mitch Barnett’s right knee after he limped off against the Rabbitohs. ⌘ Read more
Ex-crew member says Gaza-bound ship faces difficult journey
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the territory. ⌘ Read more
10 Tantalizing Stories About Money
In the early 21st century, money has become such a fundamental part of everyone’s life. Even though we’re moving more and more to electronic transactions and digital currencies, stories about money in all of its forms, including bills and coins, still thrill and fascinate us. In 1987, one of the most popular films about money, […]
The post 10 Tantalizing Stories About Money appeared first on … ⌘ Read more
Wreckage, life jacket wash up amid search for missing fisherman
Parts of a fishing boat that capsized off Wollongong, spilling its two occupants, have washed ashore as a search for one of the men continues. ⌘ Read more
Le pouvoir a cyniquement choisi le laxisme
« Champion, mon frère », c’est avec cette interjection colloquiale que Macron a salué la victoire du PSG en Ligue des Champions dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, au moment même où plusieurs quartiers de la capitale subissaient les assauts de hordes violentes que les forces de l’ordre peinaient franchement à juguler. Finalement, tout s’est déroulé […] ⌘ Read more
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10 Unusual Things Famous Historical Figures Did for Love
Everyone has their own opinion about what love and relationships should be like, but one thing is certain: they can make people do some strange things. Even some of the past’s most famous figures approached the tasks of finding and holding onto lovers in ways that seem very unusual today. Some were merely following the […]
The post [10 Unusual Things Famous Historical Figures Did for Love](https://listverse.com/2025/06 … ⌘ Read more
Bono reckons with the price of fame in surprising new one-man stage show
In Stories of Surrender, Bono appears solo on stage, sharing stories, jokes and songs that illuminate what life is like for the man behind the sunglasses. ⌘ Read more
Anti-vaccine protester who assaulted pregnant police officer taken into custody
An anti-vaccine protester who assaulted a pregnant police officer and two security guards in October 2021, has been taken into custody after her suspended sentence was overturned on appeal. ⌘ Read more
Prisoner at large after fleeing prison farm on red tractor
A 43-year-old serving a sentence of more than six years is believed to have left the Lotus Glen low security prison farm, west of Cairns, on a red tractor during a 90-minute window on Sunday. ⌘ Read more
Paraglider video out of China likely doctored with AI, experts say
The ABC was among hundreds of media outlets which reported on the incredible footage. Experts say the video was at least partially manipulated by artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more
Anthropic CEO says AI will kill half of white collar entry-level jobs for Gen Z ⌘ Read more
My cat is waiting for at least one olive to fall to him. ⌘ Read more
Elderly man, youths accused of stealing controversial sculpture from church
The 100kg sculpture, which depicts a naked man and woman, upset parishioners who believed it had an “occult element”. ⌘ Read more
E-scooter fatality in Townsville as severe head injuries become major concern
Healthcare and insurance specialists are growing frustrated at the number of e-scooter injuries presenting to hospitals, growing to 150 per month in Queensland alone. ⌘ Read more
Canberra woman charged with grooming boy she worked with granted bail
Police allege the woman tried to keep the relationship secret and continued with it despite knowing it was illegal. ⌘ Read more
As the leader of the prolific Matildas ‘brand’, Montemurro might be Australia’s most important coach
Joe Montemurro correctly called the Matildas ‘one of the best brands in the world’ at his unveiling and begins his tenure as coach at one of the most crucial junctures in Australian football. ⌘ Read more
Erin Patterson to give evidence at triple murder-trial
Accused triple-murderer Erin Patterson will be called to give evidence in her trial, where she stands accused of deliberately poisoning her in-laws with a meal containing death cap mushrooms. ⌘ Read more