The Australian literary journal closed late last year after then publisher, Melbourne University Press (MUP), said the long running publication was no longer financially viable. Earlier this week, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said it had taken ownership of the magazine, and quarterly publication...

Developers of Linux Mint (LM), the operating system (OS) I now use, are considering increasing the time between major updates, writes Brian Fagioli, at NERDS.xyz. Presently major updates roll out at leisurely six month intervals. To be honest, I had even noticed. I’m just grateful for an unobtrusive OS that simply...

Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye, writing for Harvard Business Review: In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it. In an eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a U.S.-based technology company with about 200 employees, we...

Elon Musk, in his capacity as CEO of SpaceX, wants to build a “self-growing” city on the Moon. He thinks the task will take about ten years to complete. Establishing a permanent base on the Moon seems like a worthwhile goal, but is not without significant challenges, as Aakash Gupta writes: The unsolved problems are...

Applications are open until 17 March 2026, for the role of Australian National Poet Laureate: The National Poet Laureate is a three‑year appointment that recognises an outstanding Australian poet whose work and cultural contribution have shaped contemporary poetry and its readership. The Laureate serves as a...

Jonathan Morton, at Statcounter: We have seen a significant rise in bot traffic to websites in recent months. These bots are adopting new methods to avoid detection and when they flood your stats with fake visits, they can make it very difficult to get an accurate view of the real visitors on your website. I’ve been...

Jared Isaacman, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator, writing on X/Twitter: NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images...

AI agents might be smart enough to tell us how to, say, mow the lawn. But an AI agent cannot actually mow a lawn itself. Unless, perhaps, the lawn-mower in question is a smart machine, that an AI agent might be able to control. Otherwise, when it comes to doing tasks that are hands-on, AI agents are going to need to...

Luke Cooper writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Researchers found on days when maximum temperatures were 35C or higher, which the Bureau of Meteorology classifies as a “hot day”, a $5.4 million collapse in daily daytime consumer spending was recorded. However, on a recent excessively warm day,...

Mozilla, developer of web browser Firefox, and email app Thunderbird, among other things, is forming an AI “rebel alliance” to counter the industry’s big players, writes Ashley Capoot, at CNBC: Surman is building what he’s described as “a rebel alliance of sorts,” using a phrase that’s long been part of Mozilla’s...

I’m wondering why The Devil Wears Prada sequel is somewhat unimaginatively titled The Devil Wears Prada 2. Why didn’t the producers go for something a little more… groundbreaking, such as The Devil Wears Prada: Beyond the Runway? Whatever, the release of the trailer for the second instalment caused some excitement...

According to a Reddit thread, that was re-posted at Marginal Revolution, the online publishing platform is requesting users in Australia submit to an age verification process. Substack, as of the time I type, is not on the list of websites, or services, that Australians under the age of sixteen cannot access, so I’m...