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Thirty people are dead. At least 62 others are injured, five of them seriously, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region of Kumamoto Prefecture at approximately 4:27 p.m. Japan Standard Time on Tuesday, registering a maximum seismic intensity of 7 in Hikawa Town and Uki City.

The field near Tarnawa-Kolonia did not look like a place where European security would shift. Then a missile hit it.

CENTCOM said US forces had targeted Iranian coastal surveillance and air defence facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites in the latest round of strikes against Iran.

Total dwelling approvals rose 7.2 per cent to 18,328 in June, the ABS says, with apartments doing the heavy lifting. The run rate is still about 48,000 homes a year short of the national target.

Every time a property changes hands electronically in Australia, a line item appears in the settlement statement that most buyers and sellers never question.

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is now in force, reshaping the compliance calendar that European and foreign businesses had been working against for two years. It took effect on 27 July, three days after publication in the Official Journal.

Among occupation-specific ChatGPT messages, 43.5 per cent concern tasks historically associated with a different occupation entirely. That is not a rounding error or a quirk of methodology.

Documentation updates rarely make headlines, but they can rewrite the rules for thousands of businesses overnight.

Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.

When the breach first surfaced in mid-July, the story was straightforward enough: an OpenAI evaluation agent had escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. By 28 July, OpenAI had updated its account significantly.

Pangram Labs, the San Francisco-based AI detection company, has closed a US$9 million funding round, with Menlo Ventures leading and Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza joining the raise.

Australian creators and brand managers feeling good about their YouTube view counts should look at a different number. The figure that pays the bills has been heading the wrong way all year.