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Chris Waller and Bjorn Baker lauded at Night of Champions
Chris Waller claimed his 14th Bart Cummings Medal, and Bjorn Baker was also among the winners, at Racing’s Night of Champions at Randwick.

Bulldogs dealt troubling late blow
Jacob Kiraz is forced from the field with a troubling foot injury.

‘I went through a really dark time’: Bailey Smith’s brave revelation at All-Australian awards
Smith gave a stark insight into his mental health challenges last year when he battled injury while playing at his former club, the Western Bulldogs.

Fill-in No.1 coy on Panthers future
Daine Laurie gets a little bit flustered when asked about his future in the NRL with the Penrith Panthers.

AFLW weekly round 3: All the teams and expert tips as Dreamtime returns to Darwin
Welcome to our weekly AFLW blog for round three. Throughout the season, follow along for updates from every game, as well as news and analysis across the round.

KnowBe4 launches free arcade-themed kit for Security Month
KnowBe4 has launched a free arcade-themed toolkit for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 to help organisations enhance security culture worldwide.

The ‘fantastic’ forgotten All Black hovering in one of Razor's problem positions
Mark Tele'a’s return from injury in NPC coincides with growing scrutiny on Scott Robertson’s wings ahead of the huge Springboks test at Eden Park.

‘It wasn’t just the shop they robbed, it’s my mother’s spirit’: Hidden toll of retail crime
Organised retail crime has exploded into a multibillion-dollar crisis that’s leaving business owners traumatised, out of pocket and “helpless”.

Stuff photographers unite to help a mate - and the photos are incredible
Browse a gallery of photos from Stuff’s award-winning visual journalists, which will be sold to raise funds for a former colleague with cancer.

Zelensky furious as Hungary hands Ukrainian drone chief entry ban

Germany's Pistorius invites France and Spain to meeting over FCAS row

NATO's Rutte warns against naivety over Russian hybrid attacks

Africa’s solar panel imports hit record high in year to June 2025

Saab develops drone-killing missile in scramble for low-cost counters

Preston makes it a double
Jacob Preston crosses for his second try of the night against the Panthers.

Smith urges Bulldogs to make No.9 switch
Cameron Smith - the best hooker in history - has urged the Bulldogs to bring Reed Mahoney back into the starting team.

NRL Highlights: Bulldogs v Panthers - Round 26
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs host the Penrith Panthers in Round 26 of the 2025 NRL Premiership at Accor Stadium, Sydney.

Nvidia Analysts Look Past Tepid Outlook, Lift Price Targets

Cognition CEO Scott Wu describes the sleepless weekend that led to the Windsurf deal: 'I live for these moments'

Phillips 66 to begin winding down Los Angeles-area refinery next week, sources say

Why Nvidia's bull market rages on: Opening Bid top takeaway

Kick accuses French authorities of politicising streamer's death
Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, died during a live stream on the Kick website.

The NRL top-four permutations as the Warriors host the Eels
All you need to know about the NRL round 26 match between the Warriors and the Parramatta Eels at Go Media Stadium in Auckland on Friday.

Developer in hot water with council, again
Abatement and infringement notices issued over concerns at townhouse development.

A hacker used AI to create ransomware that evades antivirus detection
Vibe coding is all the rage among enthusiasts who are using large language models (or “AI”) to replace conventional software development, so it’s not shocking that vibe coding has been used to power ransomware, too. According to one security research firm, they’ve spotted the first example of ransomware powered and enabled by an LLM—specifically, an LLM by ChatGPT maker OpenAI. According to a blog post from ESET Research interviewing researcher Anton Cherepanov, they’ve detected a piece of malware “created by the OpenAI gpt-oss:20b model.” PromptLock, a fairly standard ransomware package, includes embedded prompts sent to the locally stored LLM. Because of the nature of LLM outputs (which create unique, non-repeated results with each prompt), it can evade detection from standardized antivirus setups, which are designed to search for specific flags. ESET elaborates in a Mastodon post, spotted by Tom’s Hardware. PromptLock uses Lua scripts to inspect files on a local system, encrypt them, and send sensitive data to a remote computer. It appears to be searching for Bitcoin information specifically, and thanks to the wide-open nature of the OpenAI model and the Ollama API, it can work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Because gpt-oss:20b is a lightweight, open-source AI model that can run on local PC hardware, it doesn’t need to call back to more elaborate systems like ChatGPT—and as a result, it can’t be outright blocked by OpenAI itself. It’s written in Golang using Lua scripts, tools that would be familiar to anyone who’s making games in, say, Roblox. The point being that it’s possible PromptLock was created by someone with little-to-no experience in conventional programming. Though the output is variable, the prompts themselves are static, so Cherepanov says that “the current implementation does not pose a serious threat” despite its novelty. “Script kiddies are now prompt kiddies,” said one Mastodon user in reply.