Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws.

In October 2025, the Australian government stated that it would not include a text and data mining exception in its copyright legislation.

In effect, this means that AI developers must obtain permission from copyright holders to train their machines on those works, a situation that in practice prevents mostly US-based laboratories from training models in the country.

Both companies have acknowledged that decision in their submissions but are asking for some margin around it. Anthropic has acknowledged that broad copyright exceptions have been ruled out and has therefore suggested a ‘narrow form of conditional approval’ for the purpose of model training.

Also, it stated that it would be open to conditions such as investment or other measures intended for the support of Australian creators and cultural work; OpenAI requested a balanced framework which would enable the models to learn from publicly available information while at the same time providing rights holders with opportunities to work together with AI companies.

Both companies connected the question to their intended data center plans in Australia; OpenAI has a power purchase agreement with NextDC for a site it plans to build in Sydney, and Anthropic was announced last week as a partner in a data center project in Queensland.

Anthropic has established that connection previously; when briefing notes were made public as a result of a request under the Freedom of Information Act, it was stated that Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, had raised the issue of copyright with Treasurer Jim Chalmers in April, according to AFP.

The officials noted that Anthropic would claim its investment in Australia depended on there being clarity regarding copyright settings.

The creative industries, on the contrary, have made a strong effort. In July, Sarah Hanson-Young, a Green senator and chairwoman of a Senate inquiry into AI and data centers, stated that AI companies wishing to train on copyrighted material “should pay for it just as everyone else does”.

Anthropic has also encountered this problem in court. In the United States, it agreed in 2025 to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action brought by authors over books that had been pirated and used in its training data, following a ruling by a judge that training on lawfully acquired books could be considered fair use.

The submissions were handed to a joint select committee on AI which both houses of parliament established in August. At the same time, Australia intends to introduce more comprehensive AI and data center regulations next year.

For example, GoPro sent a Laowa 7.5-mm lens for me to test with. When HyperSmooth is on, that’s the equivalent of shooting with a 23-mm lens on a full-frame camera. With HyperSmooth off, it becomes a 20-mm lens. I bring this up mainly because if you want to go really wide on the ILS, you’ll need a very, very wide lens (fisheye lenses are probably your best bet).

Now for the downside to the ILS: There are no electrical contacts, which means lenses that rely on electronic focus or aperture control probably won’t work. For example, my all-time favorite MFT lens, Panasonic’s original 20-mm pancake, won’t work on the ILS because there’s no manual aperture ring.

Your best bet is to stick with fully manual lenses that have a mechanical aperture ring. There aren’t many, but there are enough with quality glass to cover a good range of focal lengths. GoPro’s Abe Kislevitz put together a nice collection of lenses that he has tested with the Mission 1 Pro ILS, along with his recommendations for various shooting scenarios. Be aware that the camera is sold body-only, and so far, we haven’t seen any bundles from GoPro or resellers that include a lens.

And yes, you have to manually focus. I could drop some jokes here about kids today not knowing how to do it, but the truth is, I shoot vintage manual-focus lenses all the time on my Sony A7R II. While I’ve shot sports and wildlife with these lenses and had a pretty high success rate, I struggled to focus on the ILS.

The problem with focusing on the ILS is the small screen. It’s hard to see, not just in bright daylight. It’s just really small. There is focus peaking, which uses color banding to indicate what’s in focus, but it can be hard to see exactly where it ends, and I’ve learned from my Sony not to fully rely on peaking.

You can zoom in to get very precise focus, which is what I do on the Sony, but again the small screen makes it hard to see. Worse, for filmmakers especially, you have to have the camera at eye level to focus it well, which limits your shooting ability (or you get to contort into all sorts of weird poses). I would love to see the next Mission 1 Pro ILS get a tilting screen; it’s not waterproof anyway, so it doesn’t seem like there would be a need to reengineer. GoPro no doubt would suggest using the app on my phone, as it does make it considerably easier to focus, but then you need a cage, and then a handle, and at that point most of the Mission 1 Pro ILS’ size advantage is gone; you might as well get a Panasonic GH7, which has an even larger sensor.

Ultimately, while focusing on the small screen is challenging, using a phone or other external monitor sidesteps that issue (and is what pro filmmakers do anyway), but the inability to control the lens iris electronically feels like a bigger limitation since it eliminates a significant number of lenses. It would be nice to see a future Mission 1 Pro ILS support at least electronic connectors for aperture and manual focusing on lenses that require it.

Shooting With the Mission 1 Pro ILS

Once you get past the hurdle of manual focusing, there’s a lot to love about the ILS footage. Testing it reminded me more than anything of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera from several years ago. I can’t believe this tiny little thing can match the quality of those early Blackmagic cameras.

Newly minted Apple CEO John Ternus has praised the Apple Vision Pro, calling it an amazing device that is finding more users, but also that it’s in its very earliest days.

John Ternus has been criticized for laying off workers in the company’s Apple Vision Pro division, but in a new interview for French television, he says he’s enthused about the device’s future. The Canal+ arts show Clique TV asked him directly whether or not he considered the Apple Vision Pro to be a failure.

“You know, Vision Pro, to me, is an amazing device, right, it’s an absolutely amazing device, but I think of it as, like, the early days of computers,” he said. “It is the early days of a long journey, that’s how I feel about Vision Pro.”

“What you’re seeing with Vision Pro now is, certainly, there’s early adopters who love it and they’re using it, they’re enjoying it,” he continued, “but you also [see] surgeons are starting to use it in surgery, because it’s just a fundamentally better tool for them than a monitor that’s kind of sitting over there.”

Ternus claimed that people are finding more uses for the Apple Vision Pro and that this is where he sees a “very bright future” for the device.

He wasn’t pressed for any commitment over whether the Apple Vision Pro would continue to be developed. But he was asked what difference it makes to Apple that the company’s new CEO is an engineer.

“I don’t think anything’s really changed,” he said. “I think, sure, I’m new in this job, but the focus on innovation, the focus on products, the focus most importantly on our customers, that has never changed, that’s been here from the beginning.”

“I am super passionate about products, I love building things, that’s why I’ve been here for so long [and] that’s why I love what I do,” Ternus continued. “I don’t think of it as some radical change, I just couldn’t be more excited about the future.”

This issue of him being an engineer has been repeatedly brought up since his predecessor Tim Cook was famously “not a product person.” But Apple today is far from the computer product firm it originally was, and Ternus is presiding over a $5 trillion company with multiple services as well as hardware.

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from the Ministry of Manpower.

While Singapore’s latest labour market figures point to a slowdown in hiring, with retrenchments rising last quarter and re-entry into employment becoming tougher, there are still plenty of job openings available.

There are close to 70,000 vacancies in Singapore, including almost 40,000 PMET positions—jobs for professionals, managers, executives and technicians.

These roles also tend to pay significantly more. Last year, the median monthly income for resident PMETs was S$7,600, compared with S$5,755 across all resident workers and less than half that for non-PMET workers.

With the Ministry of Manpower releasing its second-quarter labour market report on Sept 21, we now have a clearer picture of which industries and occupations are still hiring—and where those nearly 40,000 PMET opportunities are.

Where to look for work in Singapore?

While the number of vacancies has dropped by around 8.6% compared to Q1, there are still thousands of jobs available, across all industries, including some of the best paying ones like Finance or IT.

Number of PMET vacancies in Singapore in 2026, by industrial group

The government leads the pack

For finer detail, we can look at specific industries within each larger grouping, which reveal that the government continues to be the most eager employer, offering over 8,000 openings—up by 20% from the first quarter.

In this breakdown, Financial Services and IT jump up to 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, showing that there’s continuous demand for qualified workers, even amid the fears that AI is going to take many high-paying jobs there.

Number of PMET vacancies in Singapore in 2026, by specific industry

With 40% of the offers concentrated in the Top 3, it seems that quality follows quantity. Public jobs are not known to pay poorly, while finance and tech are even more generous.

There certainly is some disconnect between the very high pace of economic growth, with GDP hitting close to 6% year-on-year, and the job market, which seems far less optimistic. However, the number of PMET vacancies today is still roughly 50% higher than it used to be before the pandemic.

It might be harder to get a job than it was during the rapid, post-COVID revival, but most still succeed, and there are many options to choose from. Of course, your individual situation depends on your qualifications, career goals and the industry you’re in.

• Read other articles we’ve written on Singapore’s job landscape here.

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It wants to be treated as a financial services platform.

Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates.

Naceri named it BigDiskBuster and said it is similar to another Defender zero-day known as UnDefend, which he released in April and that allowed standard users to block definition updates.

The security researcher added that BigDiskBuster works on all supported Windows versions and that it needs to run in the background to block Defender updates.

“Made a funny tool, completely denies defender from updating so you’re stuck with your current version if the tool is running in the background,” he said.

“This proof of concept is similar to UnDefend, it prevents windows defender from performing platform/signature updates. Seems to work on all supported windows versions but PoC is a bit buggy and needs some rewritting but you get the idea.”

Since April 2026, Naceri has released almost a dozen zero-day exploits as part of an ongoing dispute with Microsoft over their alleged unfair termination in March 2025.

Two weeks ago, they released another Defender zero-day exploit that grants SYSTEM access (known as ‘ShieldCrash‘) right after Microsoft rolled out this month’s Patch Tuesday security updates.

According to Naceri, ShieldCrash bypasses another ShieldBreak Defender privilege escalation flaw patched a week earlier, which itself bypassed RoguePlanet, another Defender flaw the security researcher disclosed in June and Microsoft patched in July.

Naceri’s zero-day exploits released this year also include LegacyHive, BlueHammer, RedSun, YellowKey, GreenPlasma, MiniPlasma, and UnDefend, which target Microsoft Defender, BitLocker, and other Windows components.

Microsoft initially responded with warnings of legal action against anyone engaging in “malicious activity causing real harm” to the company’s customers, leading many in the infosec community to believe that Microsoft was directly threatening the security researcher.

While Microsoft has fixed some of the security flaws Naceri disclosed (such as ShieldBreak, RoguePlanet, YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma flaws), the other security issues still lack an official patch.

A Microsoft spokesperson was not immediately available to comment when BleepingComputer reached out about the BigDiskBuster denial-of-service zero-day.

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