• Microsoft warns Russian hackers still trying to break into its systems | Reuters: Given Microsoft's vast customer network, it is not surprising it is being targeted, said Jerome Segura, principal threat researcher at the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes' Threatdown Labs. He added it was unnerving that the attack was still underway despite Microsoft's efforts to thwart access.
• Coalition steps up calls to ban TikTok over links to China - ABC News: The Australian government last year banned the use of TikTok on government devices, but Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the government had no current plans for a nationwide ban. Ms Rowland stopped short of ruling out such a ban in the future, saying the government would follow the advice of its own security agencies.
• New AI paint colors: I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or any language (and therefore no idea what paint colors were) it managed to reproduce some of the letter combinations in the originals. But it lacked the context to know not to generate colors like these
• AFL admits players who have illicit drugs in their system have been pulled from games | AFL | The Guardian: The AFL has confirmed players who test positive to internal club drug tests have been pulled from match day lists as part of its illicit drugs policy, arguing the approach is in the players' best interests.
• Australian supermarket instant coffee taste test: the worst is 'what we'll drink during the apocalypse' | Coffee | The Guardian: It was so un-coffee-like some of us were convinced something had been added to give it a different aroma and flavour but, to our surprise, like all the coffees we tasted this is 100% coffee.
• Peter Dutton doubles down on comparing pro-Palestine protest and Port Arthur massacre responses - ABC News. For one brief moment the nation united as it looked at Dutton and said "that man is a pillock".
• Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay—a year after 62% said they expected a full-time return to office by 2026: KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years. So it's official: Leaders who believe that office workers will be back at their desks five days a week in the near future are now in the small minority. It's a complete 360 on their stance last year, when 62% of CEOs surveyed predicted that working from home would end by 2026.

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