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Prices across Australia's secondhand vehicle market are falling sharply as an influx of budget-friendly Chinese EVs resets buyer expectations. Dealerships face mounting inventory as affordable new models make overpriced older petrol cars harder to sell.
Australian corporate workers are debating whether Agile methodology has outlived its usefulness in office IT environments. Employees describe daily standups, lengthy tickets and bloated processes turning straightforward tasks into slow-moving committees.
National Australia Bank is preparing to cut around 2,500 roles ahead of the festive season, targeting middle management layers to simplify operations. The redundancies come despite strong ongoing bank profits, accelerating a broader cost-cutting trend across the sector.
White-collar and contract workers report gruelling job searches stretching across months with automated rejections and disappearing roles. Across tech and corporate finance, candidates describe high competition as companies hold off hiring or push roles offshore.
Professor Georgina Long and Sydney researchers have achieved a landmark medical milestone with custom-tailored mRNA cancer vaccines, the SMH reports. The breakthrough treatment primes a patient's own immune defences to recognise and attack melanoma cells, showing major promise in clinical trials.
Tesla has formally cancelled Australian orders for the Cybertruck, returning reservation fees seven years after opening queues. The heavy electric pickup never secured local design rule approval, putting an end to long-delayed plans for an official right-hand-drive rollout.
Australia's 2026 critical infrastructure risk review has identified artificial intelligence as an accelerating threat multiplier across energy, water and transport. Security agencies warn automated vulnerability scanning and AI-assisted cyberattacks demand faster defensive upgrades.
A viral discussion has Australians unpacking how the country has dodged the severe social turmoil currently gripping France. Contributors point to mandatory superannuation, mineral export wealth and an easygoing culture, alongside criticism of national complacency.
Alibaba's AI team has teased the impending release of Qwen 4 with a Taoist riddle referencing Zhuangzi's giant fish turning into a bird. Developers anticipate a major generational leap in reasoning and agentic performance across open weights.
Stanford researchers have introduced Memorilla, an architecture that compresses entire conversational histories into 16 memory tokens. The approach cuts token usage by over 4,000 times while speeding up retrieval 27-fold without losing key context across long sessions.
A heated debate has erupted among Australian grocery shoppers over meat consistency at Aldi supermarkets as families look to trim food bills. While many praise staple mince and chicken roasts, others report patchy freshness on heavily marked-down packs.
A Sydney school educator has turned digital elevation data into a striking physical 3D print spanning from the Hawkesbury River to Port Kembla. The modular relief project visualises the Cumberland Plain and surrounding rugged gorges with pinpoint accuracy.
Developers have raised concerns as open-weight models including Kimi K3.1 and Tencent Hy4 strip out offensive cyber and reverse-engineering capabilities. Security researchers warn that kneecapping open models hinders defensive audits while bad actors keep uncensored alternatives.
