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Work

Victoria Passes World-First Law Giving Workers Two WFH Days a Week

From September 1, Victorian employees whose roles can be done remotely will have a legal right to work from home. Small businesses get until July 2027.
5 min read a month ago
Victoria Passes World-First Law Giving Workers Two WFH Days a Week
Technology

SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI

The world's HBM shortage has a name: RAMmageddon. South Korea's memory giant just filed for Wall Street's biggest tech listing in five years to fix it.
9 min read a month ago
SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI
News

Israel Locked Cardinal Pizzaballa Out on Palm Sunday

On March 29, 2026, Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. For the first time in centuries, church leaders couldn't celebrate Mass there.
8 min read a month ago
Israel Locked Cardinal Pizzaballa Out on Palm Sunday
AI

Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking

The first agreement under the National AI Plan gives Canberra access to Anthropic's economic index data and commits both sides to joint safety evaluations.
5 min read a month ago
Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking
AI

What Anthropic's Second Source Code Leak Reveals

Anthropic accidentally published a 59.8MB source map file. The contents reveal an ambitious product roadmap and a persistent supply chain vulnerability.
4 min read a month ago
What Anthropic's Second Source Code Leak Reveals
News

The Architecture of Timidity: Fuel and Gambling Policy

The Prime Minister's national address on fuel and the compromised gambling reforms reveal a government unwilling to intervene decisively in markets that extract wealth from the lowest income quintiles.
10 min read a month ago
The Architecture of Timidity: Fuel and Gambling Policy
Geopolitics

Australia Joins Hormuz Summit Without US

Penny Wong represents Australia at a UK-led virtual summit. The diplomatic track negotiates the reopening of a strait carrying 20 per cent of global oil.
6 min read a month ago
Australia Joins Hormuz Summit Without US
News

Vaping Causes Cancer: UNSW Study Dismantles the Safe Alternative Myth

A landmark review of more than 100 global studies finds nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers. The financial and human costs are just beginning.
7 min read a month ago
Vaping Causes Cancer: UNSW Study Dismantles the Safe Alternative Myth
News

ATO grants payment relief as fuel crisis drives record business slump

Tax office launches three-year payment plans as industry conditions plunge 19.9 points
6 min read a month ago
ATO grants payment relief as fuel crisis drives record business slump
Crime

$167M Powerball Winner Arrested For Stealing $12,000

James Farthing won half of a record Kentucky jackpot last April. Now he is facing his third arrest in twelve months.
6 min read a month ago
$167M Powerball Winner Arrested For Stealing $12,000
ASX

iCandy Interactive Quits ASX, Pursues NYSE for Lemon Sky

Video-game developer exits Australian exchange after three years of turbulence, plans US listing for crown jewel subsidiary
7 min read a month ago
iCandy Interactive Quits ASX, Pursues NYSE for Lemon Sky
Technology

Five Months in Jail After an AI Said So

Angela Lipps lost her home, her car, and her dog after facial recognition software matched her to crimes in a state she'd never visited. Police knew they had bank records proving her innocence. They waited anyway.
10 min read a month ago
Five Months in Jail After an AI Said So