Rugby league’s brain-safety bid, and a ten-year-old chicken champ

The National Rugby League is implementing strict caps on contact training, limiting men's teams to 100 minutes and women's teams to 85 minutes weekly to mitigate risks of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and long-term brain injury. In international competition, Melbourne’s Johnny Di Francesco secured fifth place at the World Pizza Championships in Italy, showcasing traditional Neapolitan techniques. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Sophie Watson outperformed adult breeders at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, winning titles with her trained Australian game chicken named KFC. Digital literacy remains a focus as a viral image of a blue sunset on Mars is revealed as an AI-generated fake, though the phenomenon itself is scientifically accurate due to Martian dust scattering light. Finally, the media landscape marks the anniversary of the first YouTube upload, a 19-second clip from the San Diego Zoo that paved the way for the platform's current scale of 500 hours of content uploaded every minute.