Elias Visontay
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- Sep 30, 2026
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‘Quite ill-prepared’: Shops scramble to meet new card surcharge ban (opens the original)
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Some Australians will likely still encounter card payment surcharges at the checkout despite a ban on the practice coming into effect on Thursday as business lobby groups warn that many smaller shops, especially those run by migrants, are still in the dark on how the new payment rules work. Since the Reserve Bank confirmed in March it would ban credit and debit card surcharges from the beginning of October, small business owners have expressed concern that the sweeping reforms – estimated to sav
Five things to understand about how the OpenAI hack unfolded (opens the original)
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The Albanese government is scrambling to answer questions about national security and the dangers posed by artificial intelligence following revelations that a rogue AI agent deployed by OpenAI hacked sensitive Australian data, including aggregate Medicare records. As officials continue to investigate what happened, and the global tech giant responsible for the agent faces a potential referral to police, here’s a run-down of everything we know so far about the incident. While based on the same A
Anti-gambling register firm defends industry ties amid debt and tax woes (opens the original)
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The firm that maintains Australia’s gambling self-exclusion register has rejected conflict of interest concerns over a director’s roles with major wagering industry businesses, as the company urgently seeks cash to stay afloat amid mounting debt and a missed ATO tax bill. Dataworks, which the Australian government has paid to maintain its BetStop register of problem gamblers since mid-2023, has defended the position of its director Ian Penrose, who is simultaneously a senior independent director
Gambling company let more than 150 problem gamblers stay on platform (opens the original)
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Dabble, a social media-linked betting platform, has been slapped with more than $1 million in penalties after it breached self-exclusion laws, kept the accounts of more than 150 problem gamblers open and sent marketing material to them more than 800 times. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on Wednesday announced its investigation into the wagering platform – that allows users to copy bets from friends, former sports stars or other personalities – found a range of breaches
Anytime Fitness’ ‘any gym’ claim found to be misleading (opens the original)
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Anytime Fitness is misleading customers by claiming they can visit any of the chain’s more than 600 gyms in Australia without making clear that could come at the cost of increased fees, a tribunal has found. In a decision that challenges the chain’s business model, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that Anytime’s protocol of transferring memberships to the branch a customer uses the most, even if they have simply moved house, breached Australia’s consumer laws. Under Anytime’s rule
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