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NSW motorists using toll roads will be limited to racking up a weekly toll bill of $400, if they want to benefit from the $60 cap – a key election promise of the Labor government before it won the state election in March. During the…

Australia, the United Kingdom and America will deploy advanced artificial intelligence to track and surveil submarines in the Asia-Pacific as part of a larger AUKUS-led collaboration to contain threats to democracies in the region,…

Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a $US1 billion lawsuit over his role in promoting non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.NFTs are digital assets with unique identifiers that indicate…

A tech conference has been cancelled after its founder was accused of faking women speakers’ profiles with AI, in a scandal described as one of the strangest to rock the developer community. DevTernity is a bumper conference for software…

The ranks of the Reserve Bank are set to be bolstered following the appointment of a top official from UK’s central bank.Following a 31-year stint at the Bank of England, Andrew Hauser, who has most recently led the markets division, will…

The head of one of Britain’s largest retailers has said self-serve check-outs are fuelling a surge in “middle class” shoplifting. The chairman of food and clothing giant Marks and Spencer Archie Norman said self-serve was encouraging theft…

Australian business tycoons Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest and his ex-wife Nicola have bought iconic hat brand Akubra in a bombshell multimillion-dollar deal. Few had any inkling about the shock takeover until earlier this week, after the Forrest…

UK-based youth publisher LADbible is restructuring its Australian business at the end of 2023, with 52 Australian staff at risk of redundancy across its Sydney and Melbourne offices.A source, who declined to be named, told news.com.au that…

The daughter of the late Shane Warne, 26-year-old Brooke Warne, had a chaotic start to this year’s Melbourne Cup.After several wardrobe malfunctions in the morning, the influencer was then caught up in pro Palestine and anti Melbourne Cup…

Two popular Aussie banks have hiked interest rates days before the Reserve Bank of Australia is forecast to set another increase. ANZ, Australia’s fourth largest bank, increased its fixed rates by up to 0.35 percentage points for both…