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Quest Apartment Hotels guests just found out their data was exposed in a breach
Quest Apartment Hotels has confirmed a data breach exposing names, emails and birth dates of over 1.5 million guests who booked stays before June 2025.


Apple's camera equipped AirPods just leaked and the internet has already nicknamed them 'pervert pods'
Leaked macOS code reveals Apple's camera equipped AirPods, quickly nicknamed pervert pods online, though they reportedly cannot record photos or video.


BHP just posted a 30 per cent profit jump, and the timing could not be more awkward
BHP posted a 30 per cent profit jump to $13.2 billion on soaring copper prices, landing awkwardly just as Australian households face cost of living pain.


Sam Pang won the 2026 Gold Logie, and Robert Irwin turned hosting into a full reptile enclosure
Sam Pang won the 2026 Gold Logie as Robert Irwin's chaotic hosting debut, a pointed Karl Stefanovic jab and a Sam Neill tribute stole the Logies night.


Hayden Panettiere has died at 36, and her career deserves more than a headline
Hayden Panettiere has died at 36. Looking back at her long career, from child star and Heroes to Nashville and Scream, as her family asks for privacy now.


Melbourne's Affordable Art Fair is about to turn the Royal Exhibition Building into your new favourite Saturday
Melbourne's Affordable Art Fair returns to the Royal Exhibition Building from 27 to 30 August 2026, with over 70 galleries and original art from just $100.


The 2026 Logies just revealed a huge presenter lineup and Peking Duk is playing, so the race just got interesting
The 2026 Logies revealed a stacked presenter lineup with Peking Duk performing live and Robert Irwin hosting at The Star Sydney on 16 August.


Auburn is about to turn pink and Sydney's dodging into a Cherry Blossom Festival before winter's even done
The Sydney Cherry Blossom Festival returns to Auburn Botanic Gardens from 22 to 30 August, with 200 blooming trees and a Japanese food village on site.


Amazon just let creators choose which ads they run, and it's a small shift with a big catch
Amazon has let creators pick which Sponsored Products campaigns they feature, but existing ad budgets were auto enrolled into off-Amazon placements too.


Sam Kerr's coming home tonight, and she's playing against Australia this time
Sam Kerr returns to Sydney tonight as Chelsea Women face the A-League Women's All Stars at Allianz Stadium in the Sydney Super Cup, kicking off 7.45pm.


Six planets, a total eclipse and a meteor shower all hit tonight, and stargazers have never had it this good
Six planets align, a total solar eclipse sweeps across Europe and the Perseid meteor shower peaks, all within 24 hours tonight, a genuinely rare trifecta.


Census night is here and for the first time Australia is officially counting who's LGBTQA+
Australia's 2026 Census night has arrived, and for the first time the form asks every household about gender and sexual orientation nationwide today.


Census Night is tomorrow, and this year's form actually looks different
Census Night is Tuesday 11 August, and this year's form adds new gender and sexual orientation questions, room for four ancestries and a bicycle travel option.


ACMI's Reverb exhibition turns vinyl culture into an immersive museum trip
ACMI's Reverb exhibition turns vinyl culture into an immersive, multi sensory journey through sound, running at the Melbourne gallery until 31 August.


MrBeast is joining Shark Tank and it's basically a rescue mission for the show's ratings
MrBeast is joining ABC's Shark Tank as a guest shark for season 18, part of a stacked creator lineup aimed at fixing the show's worst ever ratings.


Sam Neill has died at 78, and Sydney is where he took his final bow
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, has died in Sydney at 78, just months after announcing he was free of the blood cancer he had fought for years.


MONA is opening a Bangkok outpost, and Hobart's weird little art empire just went global
Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art has spent almost two decades being the strangest, most confronting museum in the country. Now it is franchising itself to Thailand. MONA has signed a fifteen year deal with Asset World Corporation, a major Thai property developer, to build MONA Bangkok on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The plan is for it to open in 2029. Under the arrangement, MONA handles the parts that made it famous in the first place: collection, curation, exhibitio


Sam Neill has died at 78, and Sydney is where he took his final bow
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, has died in Sydney at 78, just months after announcing he was free of the blood cancer he had fought for years.


NRL just signed a $5.3 billion deal that leaves the AFL in the dust
The NRL signed a record $5.3 billion broadcast deal with Nine, Foxtel and Sky NZ, well ahead of the AFL, and broadcasters will expect plenty back for it.


Emmy nominations 2026 are in and The Pitt just made history
The 2026 Emmy nominations are in, with The Pitt leading on 25 nods and Hacks setting a comedy record. Mariska Hargitay hosts the ceremony in September.
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