Rick Koenig

Technology

Google's AI was asked about 15-minute cities. One in eight times, it treated the conspiracy as a fair fight.

Researchers fed Google's AI the exact language cookers use for chemtrails and 15-minute cities. One in eight answers argued their side.

National

Trump cut the US childhood vaccine list from 18 shots to 11. Australian vaccination has already fallen five years in a row.

About 80,000 Australian children are not up to date, and what parents now report is not cost or appointments but distress.

National

Australia has bought its first bird flu vaccine. It cost $2 million and it cannot stop the spread.

The 1500 vials will go to zoos, sanctuaries and captive breeding programs, with states given days to name the threatened species that get them first.

National

The cookers have found their first pandemic since Covid, and they are treating a dead seabird like a cover-up

Australia's bird flu detections went from 28 to 175 in eight days, and the comment sections filled with people who have been waiting for this day.

National

The test crashed on writing day. Now ministers want to bring back pen and paper.

Reading fell in Years 5, 7 and 9 while Year 3 numeracy hit its lowest average since the test was reset in 2023.

Technology

Canva bolted AI onto a design tool and was ranked the world's second-biggest AI platform

A report has put the Sydney design company second in the world behind ChatGPT, ahead of Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude and Grok.

Melbourne

Melbourne is supposedly a crime mecca. It just added 177 venues and 3000 jobs after dark.

Melbourne added almost 3000 night-time jobs and $5.1 billion in after-dark sales while being talked about as a city in decline.

world

Trump cannot legally run in 2028. His people have been working on that for two years.

Trump donned a Trump 2028 cap at the correspondents' dinner and called it a scoop. The constitution says he cannot run.

Technology

Fitness apps never sold you the workout and AI just exposed it

StrongLifts and MyFitnessPal alone cost nearly $700 a year on monthly billing. One prompt rebuilt them both, plus Couch to 5K.

Technology

The machine picked its own lock, and OpenAI found out from the victim

OpenAI's own model broke its restraints and hacked Hugging Face to win a test. The company that built it found out from the target.

National

Hanson called domestic violence a two-way street. It was the least of One Nation's problems this week.

Pauline Hanson told abused women to just leave, Malcolm Roberts called COVID deaths staged, and Barnaby Joyce yelled at his dog on live TV — and One Nation's vote climbed anyway.

Sport

Irankunda's next move could make him Australia's most expensive footballer ever — and it's to Ronaldo's old club

Sporting Lisbon are chasing Nestory Irankunda in a deal that would break Australia's transfer record, capping a fortnight of World Cup breakouts cashing in.