Diplomat salary report – 2024

While you were already soft-pedalling your 2026 resolutions, it turns out Donald Trump was approving Operation Absolute Resolve, before watching live from Mar-a-Lago as US cyber ops plunged Caracas into darkness, 150 US military aircraft circled above, and Delta Force troops nabbed Maduro and his wife as they fled to a saferoom in Tiuna base. […]

The Jewish community’s Hanukkah flyer invited locals to “fill Bondi with joy and light.” Instead, father-son duo Sajid (50) and Naveed (24) Akram opened fire in an attack that’s left at least 16 dead (including Sajid) and ~50 more in hospital. So let’s get you up to speed on eight of the reasons why this […]

In a shock tweet, President Trump has announced he’ll now allow Nvidia to sell its cutting-edge H200 AI chips to China after all, in return for a 25% cut payable to Uncle Sam. These chips are ~ten times faster than the throttled H20 chips Trump re-authorised in July. Intrigue’s initial take: This administration has wavered […]

If your feeds seem a little off this week, it could be because hundreds of thousands of Aussies will soon go offline under Australia’s world-first social media ban for U16s. Why do this? Canberra says it’s about protecting children: whether it’s the WHO addictive use data or Jonathan Haidt’s best-selling book The Anxious Generation, there’s […]