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Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes will lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 in San Francisco, examining how startups should choose between proprietary and open AI models. The panel will weigh trade-offs in cost, control, and speed as both open and closed model capabilities keep advancing rapidly.
Sydney Sweeney appeared in a minute-long promotional video for prediction-market platform Novig timed to the start of football season. Female athletes have publicly criticized the ad, arguing it reduces women in sports to sexualized imagery rather than showcasing athletic skill.
A Sydney court convicted Enrico Pucci, 50, on 30 domestic violence charges against his former partner Stacey, including remotely manipulating her Tesla via the vehicle's app. He added an unauthorised 'parental control' profile giving him command over the car's temperature, locks, curfew and speed, at one point triggering Valet Mode to cap it at 40km/h while she was driving. Police documents describe him boasting he was 'in her car' and 'in her maps' while stalking her.
Mathspace, an online maths learning platform used in thousands of schools, revealed that hackers breached its self-hosted Metabase reporting tool and stole personal data on students, parents, guardians and staff. The company said attackers first gained access on August 10, extracted data on August 27, and the breach was confirmed on September 3, affecting 1,079,819 people in Australia and New Zealand. Mathspace stated that passwords, academic records and authentication credentials were not compromised.
Australia now hosts 162 data centres with 90 more planned and over A$155bn in investment lined up, driven by cheap energy, gas reserves and available land. Residents near facilities in Sydney's Lane Cove and Marsden Park report constant humming and worry about proximity to homes, while a proposed one-gigawatt facility in western Sydney could become the country's largest single energy consumer.