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‘I was nervous’: Peake speaks about playing with Mickelson
A five-hour walk with the six-time major winner, who gifted him a golf ball and signed his glove for him, was an experience the Australian says he will never forget.

Perfection isn’t enough. The Swans need a miracle to make the finals
Swans fans aren’t used to having September free. But where there’s hope, there is life.

Payten's blunt message to Cowboys
Todd Payten shuts down concerns over his side being fatigued after the Cowboys suffered a sixth loss in seven games.

Drink-driving mother crashes at 100km/h, half bottle of wine stays in console
Holly Pattison, 36, was sentenced to nine months' home detention.

Supermarkets aren’t moving fast enough to lower dairy prices, says Federated Farmers dairy chair
Federated Farmers dairy chair Karl Dean says while the market always fluctuates, consumers are often missing out when prices do drop.

Italian cyclist Samuele Privitera, 19, dies after Tour of Aoste fall
Italian cyclist Samuele Privitera died at 19 after a fall in the Tour of Aoste.

Connie Francis, a top-selling singer of the 1950s and ’60s, dies at 87
Francis sold over 100 million records and had 35 Billboard Top 40 hits.

‘One more time’: The longest-serving councillor runs again
New Zealand’s longest-serving councillor, Rotorua’s Trevor Maxwell, will seek re-election in October’s election – but has confirmed it will be his final term.

Playground fence sparks ‘world gone mad’ anger from local parent
Local residents are unsure about what the fence will stop, “we don’t see the point of it”, one woman said.

Do people earning $200,000 need help with childcare?
Economist claims those on the highest incomes are benefiting most from FamilyBoost revamp.

Villa Maria adds fatal cancer warning label on bottles sold in Ireland
Labels state there’s a direct link between alcohol and fatal cancers.

The Open Championship: Ryan Fox takes stock ahead of final major of the year
'It's crazy to think that this is the last major of the year,' the Kiwi golfer says.

When opportunity knocks: The silver linings for battered Bombers
Essendon was all in at the mid-season draft in May, using all of their four selections to pick up Archie May, Lachlan Blakiston, Oskar Smartt and Liam McMahon. All four have now played senior AFL footy.

‘Heart of a lion’: The making of Tom Lynagh
Four years ago, Tom Lynagh could have chosen England, on Saturday he will face his greatest Test, leading the Wallabies against the Lions in Brisbane.

Australian golfers struggle as Royal Portrush lashed by wild weather
None of the nine-strong Australian contingent, including Cameron Smith and Jason Day, managed to shoot under the card on a day of destruction in Northern Ireland.

Tonga's health system 'fully restored' after cyber attack with Australia's help
"It really was a scare for people."

Investment company Morrison’s secret link to OpenAI’s Project Stargate
Morrison has invested in a US firm providing the underground fibre cables.

Silver Fern Maddy Gordon says netball stars in panic over ANZ Premiership future
Maddy Gordon's revealed players are panicking over the ANZ Premiership's uncertain future.

Kiwi rower Zack Rumble apologises, cops booze ban over Seattle incident
According to the documents, police were called to the Seattle Yacht Club at 10.43pm following reports of “two intoxicated guests fighting”. Charges were later dismissed.

'First priority should be Samoa or Tonga' - Pacific rugby players choose club over country
Samoa kick off their international season against Scotland in Auckland on Friday night, however with some notable omissions from their line-up.

Intel CPUs are crashing again during summer heatwaves, Firefox dev warns
Europe’s summer heatwave may be highlighting Intel’s “Raptor Lake” bug in a different way: users may have not paid attention on how to patch it, and their systems are crashing as a result. Gabriele Svelto, an engineer for Mozilla, posted that he could essentially geolocate crash reports (which identify the processor, presumably) and tie them to areas which have suffered from a recent European heat wave. “If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you’re in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat,” Svelto wrote on Mastodon. “I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.” “Raptor Lake systems have known timing/voltage issues that get worse with temperature,” Svelto added. “Things are so bad at this time that we had to disable a bot that was filing crash reports automatically because it was almost only finding crashes from people with affected systems.” On the Mozilla bug tracker, one engineer wrote: “Suhaib deployed a change to bugbot that makes it ignore crashes from this CPU so hopefully we won’t get so many going forward.” A fix is available Intel’s “Raptor Lake” bug affected processors during 2024, specifically Intel’s 13th-gen and 14th-gen desktop Core chips — not those found in laptops. Flawed microcode allowed the desktop chips to run at elevated operating voltages, which could cause the systems to crash. The problem, Intel eventually found, was that after an affected chip had crashed, the degradation was irreversible. Last August, Intel extended its warranty on affected processors from three to five years to help alleviate the problem. From June 23 to July 2, Europe suffered its worst heat wave ever, with temperatures climbing to over 104 in countries like Spain, Portugal and France. Europe doesn’t have nearly the prevalence of air conditioning that North American companies do, which means that European enthusiasts were already dealing with ambient temperatures far higher than normal, then tacking on the heat from their CPU and GPU as well. Although there is no remedy for the Raptor Lake bug, it can be mitigated. Intel recommended that users download an updated UEFI/BIOS from their motherboard manufacturer, which would place tighter constraints on the processor to avoid overheating. It’s unknown whether those crashes were in fact unpatched Raptor Lake systems, but Svento’s analysis was probably a good guess. Apply those patches now!