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Compliance that doesn’t scale down (Small business in Australia, Edition 2/3)

This is the second of three pieces on the economics of running a small business in Australia. Edition 1 covered…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 08-04

From 1 October 2026 Australian merchants can no longer surcharge eftpos, Mastercard or Visa. What a small business pays to…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 08-04

Five open-source OSINT projects shipped a release between 27 June and 25 July 2026. This is an account of each…

PRIVACY &AMP; SECURITY TOOLS · 08-04

The average Australian household paid AU$44 a month for streaming services in 2026, according to Canstar’s annual survey — AU$528…

HARDWARE &AMP; DIY · 08-04

In January 1917, British naval codebreakers working in Room 40 of the Admiralty decoded a telegram from German foreign minister…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 08-04

Every photo, video call, downloaded font and gzipped API response on the internet passes through a compression algorithm, and almost…

HOW THINGS WORK · 07-28

This is Part 5 of 5 in the techno-fascism series: Part 1, the machinery of surveillance capitalism, Part 2, private…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 07-27

Part 4 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 07-27

Part 3 of the techno-fascism series: what browsers and search engines leak by default, how fingerprinting works, and what DNS…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 07-23

Part 2 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…

POWER &AMP; SOCIETY · 07-23