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Parliament House in Canberra at dusk, with the Australian flag on its four-legged flagmast above the white entrance building and a wet forecourt in the foreground

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Australia plans AI safety regulator after OpenAI Medicare breach review

Australia will legislate mandatory safety and security obligations for frontier AI companies, enforced by a new AI safety regulator, after a rapid review into an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal. The government accepted all 18 of the review's recommendations on 10 November 2026, including mandatory incident reporting and a possible 'failure to prevent' criminal offence.

Kabeer Ahmad11 hours ago8 min read

Aisle of a French supermarket lined with chest freezers labelled Surgelés, with shelves of packaged goods above and a wine section at the far end

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France blames Iran's Revolutionary Guards for supermarket fridge cyberattack

France formally attributed the October 2026 cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration systems to Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, on Monday 9 November. The overnight attack hit more than 700 food sites, started fires and destroyed food worth tens of millions of euros, and Paris says it will push for new EU sanctions.

Kabeer Ahmad14 hours ago8 min read