The council is threatening to take people’s bins off them if they can’t follow rules.

It started with two friends from South Auckland who had an idea for a new podcast.

A vigorous cold storm moving across the east and south coast has brought snow cover over alpine areas in New South Wales and Victoria.

The weather system is moving across the states this week, bringing damaging winds of up to 130km/h until Wednesday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Thredbo, Jindabyne, Mount Ginini, Bowral, Braidwood, Bombala, Adaminaby and Nimmitabel in New South Wales and Wonthaggi, Mount Baw Baw, Falls Creek, Mount Hotham, Mount Buller and Omeo in Victoria are in the firing line.

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Ski resorts in those areas have already seen snow fall over mountain areas today amid strong gusts and sub-zero temperatures. 

Perisher and Thredbo have all recorded a natural blanket of white over their resorts, on top of their dozens of snow guns firing overnight.

Falls Creek has seen one centimetre of snow fall while Mount Baw Baw and Mount Hotham have both seen two centimetres.

While the snow was welcomed, the resorts warned some activities like ski lifts in elevated areas may be affected due to harsh winds.

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The Bureau of Meteorology expects snow showers to continue for the rest of the week, aside from Thursday and Saturday when conditions are set to temporarily ease.

Cloudy and windy conditions will persist throughout. 

Emergency services have warned residents and visitors to avoid travel if possible, secure outdoor loose items, stay away from fallen powerlines or trees, keep indoors and stay informed.

Apple's AI party today has been spoiled by one of the most vocal and prolific social media posters in the world, with Elon Musk raising questions about the privacy and security of Apple's integration of ChatGPT into future devices via software updates.

Let's rewind a bit.

Apple today kicked off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at its Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California.

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Along with announcements around new software features for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and more – the company made its first big public move into the AI space, but didn't brand it "artificial intelligence".

Instead, it's called Apple Intelligence.

A nifty way to perhaps soften the concerns of many over the rise of artificial intelligence, but also to redirect the focus of their concept of AI.

To quote Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering: "You should not have to hand over all the details of your life to be warehoused and analysed in someone's AI cloud – with Apple Intelligence, powerful intelligence goes hand-in-hand with powerful privacy".

Big claims and entirely in line with Apple's years-long push for privacy as a core tenet of its products and ecosystem.

Apple Intelligence is built to do things that regular iPhone and Apple product users might do on a day-to-day basis, things like help with writing or proofreading text.

Perhaps you can't find an emoji to suit your mood or conversation?

Easy – you can use Genmoji – generate an emoji!

These are simple, almost inane things that can be done on your device because these things are just so powerful now.

At the same time, Apple does have some additional support if your request is a bit complex.

Its own "Private Cloud Compute" allows a secure private online connection to assist with your query.

All of that is great, private and very secure as Apple would love it always to be.

However, then there's the announcement of integration with ChatGPT.

Apple says this won't be the only AI model it supports, allowing more gateways out of the Apple Intelligence ecosystem.

In explaining how these models would come into play, Apple explained that it built support for ChatGPT into Siri, saying: "First we built support into Siri, so Siri can tap into ChatGPT's expertise when it might be helpful for you."

Ask Siri a question that frankly has no relationship to your personal information, emails or other data, and "Siri determines that ChatGPT might have good ideas for this, asks your permission to share your question and presents the answer directly".

It seems, though, that the very presence of the OpenAI logo (the company that makes ChatGPT) and ChatGPT within this Apple presentation was a trigger for billionaire Musk.

Musk took to his social media platform X to express his concerns, saying: "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation."

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It should be noted that Musk has a history with OpenAI and it didn't end well, as the company has outlined on its own website.

Musk and OpenAI disagreed about the direction of the company, Musk withheld funding and the rest is history.

Clearly, though, Musk is not keen to see OpenAI succeed.

Musk has his own AI operations at X (formerly known as Twitter) and has been frequent in his posts to X today about the Apple and OpenAI deal, even arguing with people who have clearly spent time investigating his concerns.

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The fact is, Apple has been very clear about how the OpenAI-ChatGPT integration will work – "your requests and information will not be logged" – and most importantly, "You're in control over when ChatGPT is used…" – it literally asks you on-screen.

Interestingly, 9news.com.au understands using ChatGPT functions via an Apple device without being signed in as a ChatGPT subscriber is actually more secure and private than using ChatGPT online, because Apple has explicitly negotiated to anonymise the requests and ensure data is not retained.

Sadly for Apple, Musk is just out to discredit what is, in fact, a very strong AI announcement today.

Fortunately for Apple, most people are aware of Musk's delusions – in particular, when they are based around favouring his own companies or goals.

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Apple Intelligence is a quirky name for a great set of new features coming to Apple devices.

A simple thing like email will become easier to manage thanks to email summaries appearing in the preview text of a message, instead of the opening few lines of the email.

This means you can action at a glance of the inbox overload in front of you.

Add to that the writing tools and image generation potential and Apple is fairly and squarely in this AI race, perhaps not neck-and-neck with Microsoft or Samsung yet but gaining pace which will bear dividends in the next few years.

Apple Intelligence is coming to Apple computers with Apple silicon, and to iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models and newer ones from this point on, with existing devices to get some of the features later this year.

Trevor Long travelled to the US as a guest of Apple Australia.

A buried truck has been excavated as part of the investigation into the death of a Brazilian diver and a linked cocaine haul in Newcastle.

Bruno Borges Martins, 31, was found unresponsive in the Hunter River on May 9, 2022, with 54 kilograms of cocaine located nearby.

Borges was believed to have travelled to Australia after allegedly being hired by drug smugglers to retrieve the cocaine bricks from a ship around the time of his death.

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To date, two men have been charged and remain before the courts while police continue to search for a second diver, 32-year-old Jhoni Fernandes Da Silva.

After an appeal for information on the two-year anniversary of Borges' death, on May 28 police executed a search warrant at Menangle in Sydney's south-west.

During the search, police found a white Mitsubishi Fuso truck which they will allege was used by those involved with the failed drug retrieval.

Police said the buried truck was last seen driving southbound on the M4 Motorway at Pennant Hills, about 6.30pm on May 8, 2022.

Detectives are appealing for any information about a Toyota Townace Van with the NSW registration WNY439, which was seen travelling with the truck.

Investigations under Strike Force Groove are continuing.

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Villagers were forced to cut a mother-of-four out of a python's enlarged belly after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia. 

Farida, 45, was declared missing after she failed to return to her home in Kalempang in South Sulawesi on Thursday, according to the Agence France Presse.

During a search for the mother-of-four the following day, her husband reportedly found her belongings.

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"The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly," village leader Suardi Rosi told the publication.

"They agreed to cut open the python's stomach. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately visible."

Farida was found fully clothed inside the five-metre-long reticulated python.

Local media last year reported another woman was found dead inside a python at a plantation in the Jambi province, with two other similar incidents recorded in 2017 to 2018.

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Pythons swallow their food whole de to flexible muscles and ligaments in their jaws, according to the Billabong Sanctuary.

Their bodies are able to expand to make room for large prey and take several hours to digest their meal.

Pythons are typically found in regions like Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia. 

A 20-year-old Sydney woman has issued a plea for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to intervene in her case and allow her to stay in Australia.

Maria Duminica first came to Australia from her native Romania as a 10-year-old, with her mother and stepfather, who is an Australian citizen.

Duminica and her mother travelled to Sydney on tourist visas. A few months later, Maria's mother married her stepfather, and applied for a partner visa with her daughter as a secondary applicant.

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While the pair were waiting for the permanent partner visa to be approved, they were put on a series of temporary bridging visas.

Duminica told 9news.com.au she could still clearly remember arriving in Australia as a child.

"It was in the middle of summer and the first thing we did after we got to the airport was go to Bondi Beach," Duminica said. 

"It was beautiful and everyone was just really happy. 

"I would walk down the street and people would smile at you, it was very nice."

However, things at home were not so happy. As a teenager, Duminica's relationship with her mother and stepfather deteriorated.

"I was dealing with that for years and years," Duminica said.

"I remember when I was 13 or 14, I wanted to leave home already, but I was just a child and I wasn't even sure if it was legal to leave."

Duminica waited until she was 16 years old and then left home for good.

After an initial period of staying with friends, Duminica moved to temporary crisis accommodation, and was then given a place to live by a youth refuge service for young people who are homeless – Stepping Stone House at Dulwich Hill, in Sydney's inner west.

Duminica continued studying at high school while living in the refuge, travelling more than an hour each way from Dulwich Hill to Rose Bay.

"I always grew up with the mentality that I have to finish school. It never really crossed my mind that I wouldn't finish. I just thought, I've got to get it done," she said.

It was during her HSC trial exams, and just a few weeks shy of her 18th birthday, that Duminica was given some frightening news that threw her whole future in Australia in doubt.

Duminica's mother, who was still waiting on the approval of her partner visa some seven years later, had taken her daughter's name off her application as a dependent.

This led to Duminica's bridging visa being cancelled, a fact she was not aware of for a month.

"The department didn't even notify me, it was my solicitor at the time, she did a visa check," Duminica said.

"I was very scared," Duminica said.

"I was kind of in shock as well because I didn't know what steps I could take to fix that."

With her bridging visa already cancelled, Duminica's options were limited. She was not able to get a study visa as the application would need to be lodged offshore.

As a last resort, Duminica's solicitor applied for a protection visa, which was refused in September 2022.

An attempt to appeal the decision at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was also unsuccessful.

However, in a rare decision, the tribunal member overseeing Duminica's appeal decided it could meet the special circumstances required for a ministerial intervention, and referred the case to Giles' office in June last year.

Duminica has been waiting ever since to hear if the minister will step in and grant her the right to stay in Australia permanently.

Living month-to-month on a bridging visa with the threat of being deported to Romania was exhausting, Duminica said.

"I really don't feel like Romania is my home country," she said.

"I don't know anyone in Romania and I don't know how to speak the language. I don't have any connections there.

"If I do have to go back, I will be a young woman on the streets. I will be homeless."

After graduating from high school with flying colours, Duminica was able to get a job working in hospitality at a Sydney hotel.

Last year, she moved out of Stepping Stone House's refuge and is now living independently.

However, Duminica said her future still felt precarious, and while she had been given working rights with her current bridging visa, she did not have permission to study.

"There are things I can't even plan for, like getting a car. If I spend the money on a car, and I get sent back, that's money gone.

"I was looking at living with a friend but I'm scared to get a place and sign a six-month contract."

Staff at Stepping Stone House have thrown their support behind Maria, starting an online petition calling on the minister to grant her a permanent visa, which has so far attracted almost 10,000 signatures.

Stepping Stone House CEO Jason Juretic said Duminica was a "genuinely outstanding" young woman who had managed to overcome extremely challenging circumstances.

Duminica's efforts to finish her HSC during trying conditions was typical of her grit and determination, he said.

"Her school report shows that she got A's and B's in eight subjects. She also was on the honour roll of her college as a most outstanding student," Juretic said.

"While she was doing that, she was working part time at two florists." 

Juretic said it was clear the minister needed to intervene in Duminica's case.

"Maria doesn't have that support system in Romania. She doesn't fluently speak the language," he said.

"The reality is, if you talk to a lot of the refugee support organisations, they'll say young women in Romania are very vulnerable to human trafficking. There is a genuine risk of that." 

"We got a clear view that Andrew Giles needs to intervene and grant her permanent residency." 

Duminica's immigration lawyer, Sally Jackson from Crossing Borders, said her client's case was relatively unique.

"What I want to bring to the attention of the minister is that her case is unusual," Jackson said.

"When you're a child, your whole family unit is what supports you, and she didn't have that." 

"While her case is unusual, I'm sure she's probably not going to be the first person in this situation."

A spokesperson for Giles said the minister's office was aware and looking into Duminica's case.

An Austrian Airlines plane was badly damaged by hail when the airborne jet hit a "thunderstorm cell" on Sunday, Austrian Airlines said.

A storm cell is an air mass that contains up and down drafts, which can cause turbulence when a plane encounters one.

The plane with 173 passengers and six crew onboard from Palma de Mallorca in Spain to Vienna, Austria landed safely at Vienna.

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A mayday emergency call was made during the flight, says Austrian.

Social media shows the plane's nose was seriously damaged, the top of the cockpit bent and the glass in the windows of the cockpit cracked.

"Airbus A320 aircraft was damaged by hail on yesterday's flight OS434 from Palma de Mallorca to Vienna. The aircraft was caught in a thunderstorm cell on approach to Vienna, which according to the cockpit crew was not visible on the weather radar," Austrian Airlines said in a statement to CNN.

"According to current information, the two front cockpit windows of the aircraft, the nose of the aircraft [the "radome"] and some panelling were damaged by the hail."

It is now being checked for specific damage assessment.

It follows an incident last month on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 when a passenger died and more than 70 were injured after the plane hit severe turbulence.

Later the same week, 12 people were injured on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin.

A rodeo bull has hopped a fence surrounding United States arena and run through a concession area into a parking lot, injuring at least three people before wranglers caught up with it, officials say.

The crowd at the 84th Sisters Rodeo in the Oregon city of Sisters was singing along with Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA on Saturday night (Sunday AEST), most with their cellphone flashlights on, as the bull ran around the arena.

Before what was to be the final bull ride of the night, the bull hopped the fence, according to a video shot by a fan.

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Other videos posted online showed the bull running through a concession area, knocking over a rubbish can and sending people scrambling.

The bull lifted one person off the ground, spun them end over end, and bounced them off its horns before the person hit the ground.

The Sisters Rodeo Association issued a statement on Sunday saying three people were injured "as a direct result of the bull, two of whom were transported to a local hospital", KTVZ-TV reported.

Rodeo livestock professionals secured the bull next to livestock holding pens and placed it in a pen, the association said.

Deschutes County sheriff's Sergeant Joshua Spano said several ambulances were called to the scene.

Deputies transported one patient with non-life-threatening injuries to a hospital, and a deputy also sustained minor injuries when responding to the bull's escape, Lieutenant Jayson Janes told KTVZ on Sunday.

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Danielle Smithers was among the rodeo fans with her cellphone flashlight on as the bull named Party Bus was moving around the ring with two riders on horseback as the crowd sang and swayed to the music.

"About 30 seconds into it I stopped and I looked at it and I thought to myself, 'this is just too beautiful not to have a video'," Smithers said.

She shut off her flashlight and "started recording the bull, just following him, making his loop and as he started coming around his second loop in my video, he goes right over" the fence, she said.

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association said Saturday's incident is a reminder that "while rodeo is a highly-entertaining sport, on very rare occasions it can also pose some risk".

"PRCA sends our thoughts and well wishes to those who were injured or otherwise impacted by this frightening and very rare incident," the association said.

Officials with the Sisters Rodeo couldn't be reached to ask if an investigation was planned.

The rodeo's final performance on Sunday went on as scheduled.

Sisters is about 39 kilometres north-west of Bend, Oregon.

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A four-day election has shaken the foundations of the European Union, with the far right rocking ruling parties in France and Germany, the bloc's traditional driving forces. For the next five years it will be harder for the European Parliament to make decisions.

French President Emmanuel Macron called snap national elections after Marine Le Pen's National Rally humbled his pro-European centrists in the polls.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats also suffered as the extreme-right Alternative for Germany shrugged off scandals to make massive gains.

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In Italy, the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which has neo-fascist roots, won more than 28% of the national vote for the EU assembly, which would make it a key player in forming future alliances.

Green and pro-business liberal groups across Europe suffered heavy defeats, but mainstream formations held their ground, with the center-right European People's Party remaining the biggest bloc in the 27-nation EU's assembly.

Political earthquake in France

Voters in France will return to the polls in just three weeks after Macron dissolved parliament and called snap national elections.

Le Pen's anti-immigration, nationalist party was estimated to get about 31-32 per cent of the vote.

While a National Rally win was expected, the scale of the victory was a surprise, more than doubling the share of Macron's Renaissance party, which was projected to reach around 15 per cent.

It should become clear by mid-July whether a weakened Macron will be forced to work with a far-right government in an uncomfortable "cohabitation".

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Scandals do little to harm Germany's hard right

Scholz's ruling Social Democrats recorded their worst post-World War II result in a nationwide vote, with 13.9 per cent.

Alternative for Germany finished second with around 15.9 per cent. The far-right party suffered a string of recent setbacks, including scandals surrounding its two lead candidates in the EU parliament elections.

But voters appear to have shrugged them off. The result is better than the AfD's 11 per cent in 2019 but still short of poll ratings earlier this year.

Germany's opposition centre-right Union bloc took 30 per cent of the vote.

The pro-European centre holds

The centre-right European People's Party is projected to win 191 seats in the EU assembly and remains by far the biggest group.

The EPP garnered a few more seats, but the parliament is also expanding from 705 seats in 2019 to 720 seats this year, so the increase was marginal.

The second-biggest bloc, the centre-left Socialists and Democrats, lost some ground but with 135 seats comfortably retains its place.

EPP lead candidate Ursula von der Leyen had flirted with parties to the right during election campaigning, but after early results were announced she called on the socialists and pro-business liberals to work together in a pro-European alliance.

Greens and liberals take a hit

The environmentalist Greens were perhaps the biggest losers overall.

They are likely to lose about 20 seats in the EU parliament, almost a third of their tally from 2019.

A series of protests across Europe by farmers angered at the burden imposed by new climate laws helped to damage their chances.

The EU considers itself a world leader in combating global warming. Senior members had hoped that Greens parties already in government in places like Germany would hold their ground.

But projections suggested that Germany's Greens, the second-biggest party in Scholz's coalition, would fall from a peak of 20.5 per cent five years ago to about 12 per cent.

Liberal parties across Europe, including Macron's, were also expected to give away a combined 20 seats in the assembly, making them the other biggest losers in this election.

What's next?

Senior party officials and number-crunchers were meeting on Monday to work out what kind of groups and alliances might be formed in the parliament for the next five years.

Party presidents will hold their first formal talks on Tuesday.

One thing is clear: The results will slow decision-making and the passing of legislation on issues ranging from climate change to farm subsidies.

EU presidents and prime ministers will hold a summit on June 17 to take stock of the results.

They will also discuss whether to return von der Leyen to the helm of the EU's powerful executive branch, the European Commission.