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Amazon's order confirmation email used to read like a tidy receipt: item names, product images, prices. Now it reads closer to a customs form filled in by someone who prefers not to commit.

Nintendo's April to June 2026 quarter produced a contradictory set of numbers on first read. Revenue fell 9.5% to ¥517.8 billion, yet net profit attributable to shareholders rose 53.5% to ¥147.4 billion.

Quit rates tell you something pay surveys cannot: how much staff actually want to stay. At Trip.com, the Chinese travel platform, a properly designed randomised trial found that letting engineers and other graduate employees work from home two days a week pushed that number down by a third.

The Electrical Trades Union WA, the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union WA and the Western Mine Workers' Alliance all authorised industrial action after more than six months of failed enterprise agreement negotiations with BHP.

A Jetstar A320 operating flight JQ402 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 under tow nearly collided on a crossing taxiway at Sydney Airport on Sunday morning, injuring a cabin crew member as the airport strains under air traffic control staff shortages.

Demis Hassabis is not retiring, being pushed sideways into an honorary role, or leaving Alphabet. He is exiting the operational command structure of Google DeepMind entirely and moving into a newly created position: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.

Before signing off on the next media buy, consider what you are actually purchasing. A served impression counts the moment an ad is delivered to a page, regardless of whether it ever renders where a human eye might land.

Strip back any card transaction and you find three distinct charges stacked inside what the acquirer bills as a single merchant fee.