Marco Ostini

Colours of spring in Brisbane.

Brisbane! You're proving to be more lively than I've ever given you credit for. What a way to finish what has been an exquisite day.

Sandgate foreshore, Brisbane, Queensland, at dawn. Low tide reveals sandbanks under soft peach-yellow-blue skies.

Listening to the tide fall, sunrise at Sandgate, Brisbane.

With the Powerful Owl now out, I'm going for the Southern Emu-wren. It needs protection from habitat destruction (I'm looking at you rocket launch site). It'd be great if it could survive the next couple of days of voting and finish in the top 5. Vote here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biofuels Globally Emit More CO2 Than The Fossil Fuels They Replace — Study - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Biofuel demand continues to grow worldwide despite being responsible for 16% more CO2 emissions globally than the fossil fuel...

Biofuels Globally Emit More CO2 Than The Fossil Fuels They Replace — Study

cleantechnica.com/2025/10/09/b...

"IT Professionals NZ" (Previously the "NZ Computer Society") has suddenly wound up due to being insolvent

itp.nz/closure

No idea the story.

I've never been a member since it seemed to be for Government IT Project Managers and they had a dubious certifying drive a few years back

Small Agrivoltaic Project, Big Impact A small but mighty agrivoltaic project aims to demonstrate that US farmers can successfully grow rows of food between rows of solar panels.

AgriVoltaics offer huge benefits for Australian farmers.

Firstly, the potential to detach from the unreasonable burden; the cost of Diesel, & making many struggling farms profitable, but also offering an income when crops fail, smoothing out income dips.

cleantechnica.com/2025/10/11/s...

Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector

“A large proportion of university council appointments are drawn from the corporate world, yet university councils do not face the kind of scrutiny that applies to corporations. As a result… the council is effectively dominated by the Vice-Chancellor." satpa.pe/WghJH0D

so many commentors, bots and trolls have told me, this IS impossible.
An #EV Towing, recharging from #solar, in the Australian Outback. to non Australians, the outback, is Not The city.

YouTube video by SydneyEV KGM EV Ute is coming!

4x4 #EV utes are coming to Oz.. Finally.
the KGM Musso EV will be coming to Oz.. will it take BYD shark sales? will it take diesel ute sales?
youtu.be/5Uls8FHrYUM?...

Albanian Police use MG4 EVs and even have their own solar charging canopy!

Kookaburra in a Brisbane park this morning

crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println | Rust Blog Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Here's some crypto-stealing malware on Rust's Crates package repo.... just in case you're waiting for the PyPI and npm ones to show up

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

socket.dev/blog/two-mal...

At the 2025 Tarmac West rally event in Perth last weekend, the TCD Civil Construction team with the Tesla Model 3 Performance, placed 2nd overall and first in the Modern 4WD category. Well done to Helen and Jurgen Lunnsmann for a stellar drive all weekend.

Sky Cards screenshot showing a big red plane that is not the 747-100 shown in the image, unless there are two massive planes with Space Shuttles on their backs, and one of them is pootling around in France.

One of the most fun things in Sky Cards is this ghost 747-100, which pops up in the Rhône-Alpes region, flies around a little, and vanishes again.

It's not N905NA, because that's up on bricks at Space Centre Houston and has a Space Shuttle on its back. So what is it?

102-year-old becomes oldest person to summit Mount Fuji Kokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top.

Kokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top.

Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.

alternative title: "we've gotta stop burning $hit"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tesla leaves loyal FSD customers in the dark, with financial regrets The owners of older Tesla vehicles who purchased FSD long ago have not heard anything at all from Tesla for years. Maybe I should have bought Tesla shares instead.

The owners of older Tesla vehicles who purchased FSD long ago have not heard anything at all from Tesla for years. Maybe I should have bought Tesla shares instead.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s Gulfstream G700 private jet just took off from San Francisco and is headed to Hawaii, using the Privacy ICAO Address program in attempt to hide his flight. This comes right after Salesforce announced 4,000 layoffs and a significant drop in stock prices this week.

Video: Is Škoda's Elroq the most practical EV under $60k? With a WLTP range of up to 529km, practical design, and premium touches, does the Elroq have what it takes to challenge rivals like the Tesla Model Y, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and Kia EV6?

With a WLTP range of up to 529km, practical design, and premium touches, does the Elroq have what it takes to challenge rivals like the Tesla Model Y, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and Kia EV6?

Citrix forgot to tell you CVE-2025–6543 has been used as a zero day since May 2025 A look into what action Netscaler customers need to take ASAP.

New by me - Citrix have forgot to tell you a zero day was under exploitation earlier this year to successfully backdoor devices at "critical" organisations, and no vendor released technical details.

More to come, including on CVE-2025-7775 too.

doublepulsar.com/citrix-forgo...

New in the MG range of electric vehicles I AM

I test drove this today with a mate
#EV
#MG
Lovely car

Glossy Black Cockatoos are 1 of Brisbane's endearing cockatoos. Queensland Australia #BirdsSeenIn2025 @leitchbird.bsky.social @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

Having fun in Brisbane

With Starship Flight 10 (finally) in the books, enjoy a nice gallery of a few pre-launch, liftoff, and in-flight photos, taken by our team in the field. Thank you to Jack, Max, Ceaser, and Tyler for such incredible dedication to providing high-quality photos of such an exciting event!!

Starship Flight 10: Ship 37 entry interface.

LAUNCH! Starship Flight 10 launches with Booster 16 and Ship 37 from Starbase Pad 1.