Technology & AI
Mobile coverage map standard 2026: ACCC warns on misleading claims
ACMA's new 4G and 5G rules require a standard method across Australia, giving the ACCC a benchmark to judge network claims it previously had to drop.
Marcello Babbili
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Property & Economy
Australian house prices cool as new home loans fall 6.2%
Auction clearance rates are softening and economists expect modest declines, but arrears remain low and the wealth effect may not bite yet.
Technology & AI
New EvoPolicyGym benchmark forces AI agents to improve policies under a tight feedback budget
Researchers measure whether agents can iteratively edit executable policies, with trajectory diagnostics replacing single final scores.
Technology & AI
Trust boundary semantic gap: Why passing every security test is no longer enough
Researchers analysed 75 breaches and found a hidden flaw—syntactic validation clears, but meaning fails when data crosses trust boundaries.
Technology & AI
VeriChat: Multi-agent AI claims 87.73% faithfulness in chip-security verification
An unreviewed arXiv paper shows how three specialised AI agents catch chip-security flaws that general chatbots miss.
Technology & AI
WorldSample: New AI Method Cuts Real-Robot Training by 59% With Synthetic Data
An unreviewed arXiv paper shows how grounding world models on real rollouts can slash training time and boost manipulation success.
Technology & AI
ACCC welcomes mobile coverage map standard and warns telcos on misleading claims
Telcos must now publish comparable 4G and 5G coverage maps, but broad geographical claims still sit outside the rules.
Technology & AI
Why scattered data breaks AI agents — and why masked modelling beats contrastive learning
A new ICLR 2026 poster finds Masked Image Modeling outperforms contrastive learning when training AI across heterogeneous devices. Here's what changes.
Technology & AI
First unified cyber incident response taxonomy maps 457 sources across 25 years
Researchers have distilled 457 papers into the first unified map of the human, tech and organisational factors that make or break a breach response.
Technology & AI
Controllable AI drivers: how ‘soft gates’ let you steer virtual agents without breaking physics
New CNeVA framework dials per-channel behaviour in traffic sims — no frozen cars, no reward hacking.
Technology & AI
A 90.9% backdoor catch rate: why 'boring' constraints could fix AI coding agents
Old-school engineering constraints let a tiny AI reviewer catch nine in ten backdoors, using fewer tokens than agentic scaffolding.
Technology & AI
This Two-Signal Audit Spots ‘Abliterated’ Open-Weight AI Checkpoints With 95% Accuracy
Researchers can spot stripped safety layers in open-weight AI with 95% accuracy, but the fix has limits.