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Ben Roberts-Smith, VC, Charged with Five Counts of War Crime Murder
Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, Australia's most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday and charged with five counts of war crime murder. The Office of Special Investigator alleges he was involved in the unlawful killings of five Afghan nationals in Uruzgan Province between 200
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Iran's Guard Threatens Apple, Google, and Microsoft in the Gulf
The IRGC named 18 companies as legitimate military targets, citing AI surveillance and battlefield data systems used against Iran
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Four Astronauts Leave Earth Orbit for Moon Since 1972
Artemis II crew enters high Earth orbit ahead of planned translunar injection burn
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Oil Hits $119 as Iran Strikes Qatari Gas Facilities, IEA Orders Emergency Measures
Brent crude briefly touched four-year highs after Iran retaliated for Israeli strikes on its largest gas field with attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure.
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Google Says Encryption Breaks Within Years. Migrate by 2029.
New research slashes the qubit threshold for cracking today's encryption by 95 per cent. Banks, crypto networks, and every organisation running elliptic curve cryptography are on notice.
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Australian tech stocks shed $7 billion as Iran war deepens market rout
WiseTech Global down 59%, NextDC falls 34% over six months as Middle East conflict compounds AI disruption fears and forces second RBA rate rise
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Five social media giants face A$49.5M fines over teen ban failures
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube under investigation as 70% of under-16s retain accounts
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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.
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Jeff Bezos wants $100 billion to automate American manufacturing. Who pays?
Project Prometheus aims to acquire factories, automate them with AI, and extract what remains. The capital comes from Singapore and the Gulf. The workers come from Ohio.
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China Pours $120 Billion Into Critical Minerals While Australia Watches
A new report shows China deployed $168 billion AUD into global mining since 2023. Australia is still digging holes and wondering why the value chain moved.
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Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence
Andy Weir's blockbuster rests on a quietly radical thesis: that all intelligent civilizations hit the same ceiling, discover the same technologies, and face the same existential threats. Two writers argue about what this means for AI.
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Iranian Missiles Can Now Reach London, Israel Warns. Britain Has No Defence.
The Diego Garcia strike revealed capabilities Tehran denied having. Defence experts say the UK would have to rely on American systems stationed in Eastern Europe to stop an incoming Iranian missile.
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