Good morning, and what a morning it is. The day’s news arrives with a strange, unsettling hum — the kind you notice when stories that feel distant suddenly press closer. In Australia, the dependable machinery of parliamentary inquiry — the public submissions, the evidence, the careful checking of sources — is being quietly corroded by something synthetic. Artificial intelligence is now influencing the way policymakers receive information, and not in a good way. Guardian analysis has found dozens of policy submissions, from across the political spectrum, are riddled with misinformation and so-called hallucinations: real research mis-summarized, invented citations, and sources…

Let’s be honest: life with Windows 11 is a bit like opening a box of chocolates. One week you get a delightful performance boost, a slick interface tweak, or a security patch that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. The next week, you get a weird notification saying your antivirus is off when it’s clearly on, or you discover that your carefully chosen neon-pink mouse cursor has reverted to the default boring white arrow. That’s exactly the kind of week we’re having with Microsoft right now. There’s good news, bad news, and some “wait, that was already a thing?”…