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The federal government has called on Optus to tell Services Australia how many and which Medicare numbers were compromised in the company’s data breach, as 10,200 customers are informed by the telco their personal information has already been posted online.
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, has flagged new cybersecurity legislation in response, stating the current laws were “absolutely useless” in the wake of the Optus breach.
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has said the federal government’s proposed anti-corruption commission would not be an “exercise in political payback” and has defended the decision to keep most hearings of the commission in private.
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Nasa’s Dart probe to smash into asteroid in first Earth defence test Guardian
Ravi Menon: Critical economic uncertainties Bank of International Settlements. Menon is Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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Crypto industry is not as ethical as private equity, says buyout billionaire FT.
Berlin Has a Surprising Soft Spot for Its Soviet Memorials Bloomberg
The EU is sleepwalking into anarchy Unherd
The Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of EelsSmithsonian Magazine
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Slams Into Asteroid in Effort to Alter Its Orbit
Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen explicitly accuses rival Hans Niemann of cheating CNN
Putin grants Russian citizenship to former US security contractor Edward Snowden Firstpost (J-LS)
The Many Lives — and Credit Suisse Accounts — of Gaddafi-Linked Lobbyist Hassan Tatanaki OCCRP
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