An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to compete for dwindling and increasingly costly supplies. This could slow AI-based productivity gains and delay investment in digital infrastructure.

Operational resilience means sustaining critical functions under adversity by combining capacity, ability, and experience (CAE or ACE). This model emphasizes redundant/alternative paths, authority to adapt, and practicing failure to ensure systems bend rather than break.

Since 2021, China’s rhetoric toward NATO has shifted sharply negative, portraying NATO as a U.S. 'hegemonic tool' exporting instability to Asia. The narrative is driven by alignment with Russia and broader ideological confrontation with the West.

US Commercial airline pilots often conceal mental health conditions for fear that disclosing could mean having their license pulled. This is an unnecessary risk to passengers, themselves and others and is a timely reminder that there are numerous avenues of help available.

Australia faces a sharp decline in Asian language and cultural knowledge — a gap that weakens national capability. The inquiry urges long-term investment, stronger pathways, and better use of diaspora skills to rebuild regional understanding.

The author argues Defence’s restructure rebrands old systems without fixing core problems. Shuffling staff may not lift performance. Cutting senior bureaucratic numbers and simplifying command could deliver clearer accountability, faster capability outcomes, and better value for taxpayers.

Science fiction is merging with reality as exemplified by the development of bio-hybrid computer systems. With stem cell technology, scientists are now in the infancy of mixing living tissue with machines; flagging urgent ethical issues about consciousness and personhood.

The investment will advance collaborative air capabilities and transition the MQ-28A Ghost Bat into a fully-operational warfighting asset, as well as strengthen sovereign defence industry leadership in autonomous air combat systems.

Enshittified can be an offensive term. However, it is widely applied in the tech world to explain how the internet has transposed into a colossal surveillance apparatus capable of tracking our most private behaviours and producing powerless, compliant consumers.

Brain games can help boost focus, attention and improve processing speed. The best games to train brains are different to ticklers like wordle and cross words. Exercise and diet can also help suppress slowing cognitive functions.