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Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia.

Now we see evidence of this new wave via wastewater surveillance for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We also see rises in COVID-related hospital admissions and antiviral prescriptions. Compared to past waves, this one has built up slowly and over a longer period.

Here’s what we know about this new wave and what to expect over the coming weeks.

• Optus is investigating the cause of Wednesday's nationwide outage.

• Experts say telcos have been cost cutting, and have not properly safeguarded systems

• They say the government should legislate redundancies in major telco systems

[Industry expert Mark] Gregory said Optus and Telstra have likely concluded that building highly advanced safeguards to their infrastructure and software is too expensive and have been allowed by the government to prioritise profit over the reliability of the service.

Delayed cross-post from: https://lemmy.world/post/6104114

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/112049434 (has same res, but losslessly compressed image)

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/3461025

The original stream context goes on for even longer: 【Getting Over It】金壺チャレンジ　あと３０回【ホロライブ/白上フブキ】 (timestamped to 18:30)

We had the opportunity to speak to the CS2 development team at Valve to ask about the past, present, and future of one of the greatest PC games ever made..

"Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the 14th Gen Intel Core processor launch. In this article, we find out how the flagship Core i9-14900K processor behaves with tighter power limits manually set, with the aim of lowering power draw and processor heat."

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/3354218

Source is two separate streams:

• 【スイカゲーム/Watermelon Game】I'm ready to be obsessed (timestamped to 11:41)
• 【スイカゲーム | Watermelon Game】Please don't yeet my fruit (timestamped to 1:15:03)