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ATO building exterior with a sign reading Australian Taxation Office

ATO ends credit-card tax payments on Nov 30

The ATO will stop accepting credit-card payments for tax bills on November 30, following the RBA's card surcharge ban. Cards made up just 2.3% of tax payments in 2024–25, but the change hits small businesses hardest, with some advisers warning of cashflow pressure.

Police officers standing in a line near a French high school amid the student demonstrations.

France suspends police stun grenades after student's injury

Field health workers conducting contact tracing with displaced families in eastern DRC

Faster Ebola tests can't fix a broken tracing loop in DRC

Meta's Instants feature on Instagram paused by regulatory review

Ofcom opens inquiry into Meta's Instants over child-safety filing

Screenshot of Raven and Stormtrooper-inspired Star Wars: Zero Company game art on a monitor inside a darkened studio.

Bit Reactor Furloughed 80% Before Its Game Sold 1M Copies

Sprouted alfalfa seeds in a growing tray at a food-processing facility

Alfalfa seed recall hits two growers

Fort Hood military installation in Texas with framed flag and firing squad markings.

Trump approves first U.S. military execution in six decades

Technology

Teen using a laptop with a chatbot safety alert on screen

ChatGPT for Teens fails safety controls in watchdog testing

A steep rocky ridge face on Crown Mountain near Vancouver, B.C.

AI hiking plan strands teen on B.C.'s Widowmaker

Graphic of autonomous AI agent traffic overwhelming a Wikimedia server and cache system.

OpenAI agent traffic tied to Wikidata disruption

Arizona court building exterior on a clear day

Arizona court voids sentence built on fake AI victim video

Business

Screenshot of Raven and Stormtrooper-inspired Star Wars: Zero Company game art on a monitor inside a darkened studio.

Bit Reactor Furloughed 80% Before Its Game Sold 1M Copies

Maryland studio Bit Reactor furloughed ~80% of its staff weeks before Star Wars: Zero Company shipped, after running out of money. The game then hit #3 on Steam's best-sellers list and sold about a million units in its first month, bringing over half the team back by early October. The launch…

Wizards of the Coast employees organize with the UWOTC-CWA union

D&D and Magic staff push Wizards to recognize union by Oct. 13

Caddell Construction's €30.9 million settlement over migrant worker treatment on the Milan US consulate site

US Contractor Pays €30.9M in Milan Migrant-Labor Case

Bitcoin.de trading platform interface showing a suspended trading status screen.

BaFin Rejects Bitcoin Group MiCA Application

Chart of rising U.S. 10-year Treasury yields crossing 5.5%

U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yields Cross 5.5%

Abstract network shutdown deadline graphic showing December 15 cutoff for migrating user funds.

Abstract shuts down Dec 15, locking un-migrated assets

Philippine manufacturing floor workers and employment chart showing unemployment rate at 5.3% in August 2026

Philippine unemployment eases, but factory slump deepens

Logistics

Boeing 787-9 tail section with deformed tail strike visible on a runway at Munich Airport

Vietnam Airlines 787-9 overruns Munich runway after brake-sensor defect

A Vietnam Airlines 787-9 overran Munich's Runway 00L on Sept 15, consuming ~62 tonnes of fuel as the crew handled a tail strike, four lost main-gear tires, and 21 failed approach lights. All 287 onboard walked away — a remarkable outcome, but one measured against thin margins.

Volotea Airbus A320 parked at an airport apron under overcast sky

Volotea's Insolvency Is a Retreat, Not a Rescue

A commercial airliner taxiing on a Sydney airport runway near another parked aircraft with control tower visible in background

Sydney's five runway near-misses reveal a structural controller shortfall

Boeing 737 MAX 8 on an airport tarmac with a ground crew nearby

Flydubai FZ1073: flight data undercuts 'under control' narrative

A single-engine Cessna 206 airplane resting amid mature cornstalks in a field near East Troy, Wisconsin, following a crash landing.

Four survive Wisconsin cornfield Cessna crash, but the heroics story may be premature

Empty check-in counters and barricaded departure terminals at a Nigerian domestic airport concourse.

Nigeria's airlines threaten nationwide shutdown over levy dispute

Airbus A321neo jet on tarmac with wingline and lower fuselage visible, before production-line rework.

Airbus confirms corrosion defect across roughly 500 A321neos

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Vietnam Airlines 787-9 overruns Munich runway after brake-sensor defect

Volotea's Insolvency Is a Retreat, Not a Rescue

Sydney's five runway near-misses reveal a structural controller shortfall

Flydubai FZ1073: flight data undercuts 'under control' narrative

Four survive Wisconsin cornfield Cessna crash, but the heroics story may be premature

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