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Japan has secured the right to test hypersonic missiles on Australian soil, with the Woomera Range Complex in South Australia confirmed as a primary site.

Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffrey I. Kessler put a number on the gap between what both governments have officially permitted and what has actually moved.

The frontier AI market has a new revenue leader. Anthropic posted second-quarter revenue of 10.9 billion US dollars, an increase of roughly 130 per cent on the prior quarter, according to internal figures reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

AUSTRAC says its Fintel Alliance has uncovered coordinated mortgage fraud across 10 major banks, with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in suspected fraudulent loans, most of them on Sydney properties.

Riley Bice, Nick Blakey, Isaac Heeney, James Jordon and Chad Warner will not be considered for selection for the remainder of the 2026 AFL season, including any finals series.

Australia holds roughly 37 days of diesel cover. The government has opened consultation on spending 3.2 billion dollars to stockpile a billion litres of diesel and jet fuel by 2030.

Every payment terminal in Australia must stop adding a surcharge to eftpos, Mastercard and Visa transactions from 1 October 2026, and the Reserve Bank expects most small merchants to be better off.

Your Google Analytics referral report almost certainly has a number in it that is wrong, not because the tool is broken, but because it is measuring the wrong thing.

Andy Burnham, the UK Prime Minister, exchanged text messages with someone impersonating Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff to President Donald Trump. Downing Street confirmed the exchange took place and said no sensitive or classified information was shared during it.

Read the stranding records for the Gulf of Carpentaria and one thing stands out: pygmy blue whales do not belong there. The Gulf is shallow, warm and enclosed, sitting well inside waters the subspecies is almost never documented to enter.

Retail loss prevention has one persistent weak point: the door. Self-checkouts can be hardened, staff trained, body-worn cameras installed, and shrinkage still climbs.

Two masked burglars needed less time to strip three masterworks from a Parma-area museum than it takes to boil an egg. Italy's art-crime specialists needed five months to get them back.