Property & Economy
Sydney and Melbourne property prices falling — HSBC warns worse is coming
National home values slipped 0.4% in June as Sydney led a quarterly decline of 3.2%. HSBC says the correction is 'just the beginning'.
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Technology & AI
Nvidia RTX Spark: 1-petaflop power for personal AI
A new superchip brings data centre power to laptops, challenging Apple and Intel.
Technology & AI
kNNGuard: 10x faster AI safety without retraining
A new method uses hidden activations to block bad prompts instantly, requiring no model retraining.
Technology & AI
XGBoost Scored 0.98 Against Hackers. Its Explanations Still Collapsed.
New arXiv research reveals a dangerous blind spot in cybersecurity AI: models can resist attacks on paper while their decision logic falls apart.
Technology & AI
Masked image modelling beats contrastive learning in messy distributed AI training, Sydney-led team shows
New ICLR 2026 research finds masked image modelling is inherently more robust than contrastive learning when decentralised unlabelled data differs across nodes.
Technology & AI
Training-free AI guardrail runs 10x faster using 50 prompts
An arXiv paper claims kNNGuard reads hidden LLM activations to block unsafe prompts without fine-tuning, cutting latency and setup time to seconds.
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.
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.