
Technology & Innovation · Sep 25, 2026
The federal government has launched a taskforce to investigate how an OpenAI training agent gained unauthorised access to a Services Australia statistics portal, and to assess whether current laws and AI controls are sufficient.

Technology & Innovation · Sep 17, 2026
New crypto-payment infrastructure is being developed to let AI agents pay for digital services automatically, opening the door to machine-to-machine commerce while raising new questions about permissions, security and financial control.

Blockchain & Web3 · Sep 17, 2026
Two software flaws in the Symbiosis Bitcoin Bridge allowed an attacker to create roughly 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC tokens from a tiny Bitcoin deposit, renewing questions about the security of cross-chain infrastructure.