Trump's Iran Posts Mix Warfare With Debunked Election Claims
Hours after ordering strikes on Iran, Trump posted claims that Tehran had 'stolen' the 2020 election, echoing debunked theories with no verified basis.
Tanya Birch Article Archive
All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
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Tanya Birch 
Your AI Confessions Are Being Sold. Here's How.
Sensitive chatbot conversations, including medical records, immigration disclosures, and mental health struggles, are being intercepted by free browser extensions and sold to data brokers.
Yuki Tamura 
Trump Tears Into Starmer as Iran War Enters Its Fourth Day
Trump publicly lambasted UK PM Keir Starmer over Britain's refusal to join strikes on Iran, as Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth day with no end in sight.
James Callahan 
Schoolgirls of Minab: The Classroom That Became a Casualty of War
Up to 180 girls and staff are dead after a primary school in Minab, Iran was struck during US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury. The UN calls it a grave violation of humanitarian law.
Grace Okonkwo 
Seagate's 44TB Drive Is a Real Leap. But Is the AI Storage Arms Race Sustainable?
Seagate's Mozaic 4+ platform delivers 44TB HAMR drives to two hyperscale cloud providers, claiming a 47% efficiency gain over older drives as the AI storage race intensifies.
Daniel Kovac 
The Division 2 Goes Hardcore: Realism Mode Is Live and Running Out the Clock
The Division 2's new Realism Mode ditches the HUD, cuts health regen, and makes every shot count — but it only runs until April 2.
Jake Nguyen TikTok Hit by Second Oracle Outage in Six Weeks as US Deal Shows Strains
US TikTok users are experiencing posting lags after a second Oracle data centre outage in six weeks, reigniting doubts about the platform's new ownership structure.
Sophia Vargas 
Melbourne Studio's Mixtape Gets May 7 Release Date — and a Switch 2 Upgrade
Melbourne's Beethoven & Dinosaur has locked in May 7, 2026 for Mixtape, its nostalgia-soaked follow-up to BAFTA winner The Artful Escape.
Tom Whitfield 
Search Launched for Young Man Missing Off Main Beach, Gold Coast
A large search operation is under way off Main Beach on the Gold Coast after a man believed to be from the Philippines and aged in his 20s went missing in the water.
Aisha Khoury 
Speedtest and Downdetector Sell for $1.2 Billion in Accenture Deal
Accenture has agreed to buy Ziff Davis's Connectivity division, including Speedtest and Downdetector, for $1.2 billion in cash — an extraordinary return on a $15 million bet made in 2014.
Andrew Marsh 
After Five Years of Delays, The Division Finally Goes Mobile on March 31
Ubisoft has locked in March 31 as the global launch date for The Division Resurgence, its long-delayed free-to-play mobile entry in the Tom Clancy shooter series.
Jake Nguyen 
Australia's Property Tax Reckoning: Negative Gearing, Stamp Duty, and the Housing Trap
Negative gearing has survived since the 1930s and stamp duty is pricing retirees out of downsizing. With the May budget looming, Australia's property tax settings are under their most serious scrutiny in years.
Darren Ong 
Phil Spencer's Xbox Exit: A Decade of Bold Bets, Broken Studios, and What Comes Next
Phil Spencer has retired as Microsoft Gaming CEO after 38 years at the company, handing the Xbox brand to AI executive Asha Sharma amid declining revenue and deep uncertainty.
Tom Whitfield 
45 Days and Out: Highguard's Collapse Is a Warning for the Games Industry
Highguard, the free-to-play shooter from former Apex Legends developers, will shut down permanently on March 12 — just 45 days after launch — as player numbers collapse and funding evaporates.
Sarah Cheng Google Pixel Watch Gets One-Tap Payments in Latest Feature Drop
Google's March Pixel Drop adds express pay to the Pixel Watch, letting users tap to pay at retail terminals without opening the Wallet app first.
Jake Nguyen US Lawmakers Push for Probe Into ICE's Warrantless Location Tracking
A bipartisan group of 70 US lawmakers has called on the DHS inspector general to investigate whether ICE illegally purchased Americans' location data without warrants, reigniting a surveillance oversight battle.
Aisha Khoury 
Migration Takes the Blame, But Australia's Housing Crisis Is Homegrown
Australians overwhelmingly blame migrants for the housing crisis, but economists say the real culprits are closer to home.
Darren Ong 
Why Highguard's Intensity Drove Players Away, According to Its Dev
Wildlight dev Alex Graner says Highguard's punishing 3v3 format and steep learning curve turned away too many players from the start.
Jimmy O'Brien Google Brings Android Luggage Tracking to Qantas and Global Airlines
Google's Find Hub now lets Android users share live luggage locations with airlines. Qantas is among those set to join more than ten global carriers already on board.
Helen Cartwright Your Home Wi-Fi May Be Powering Someone Else's AI Model
Millions of consumer devices worldwide are being quietly co-opted to help AI companies scrape the web, with Australians' home connections among those caught up in a sprawling proxy ecosystem.
James Callahan Canberra's Data-Sharing Dream: Four Years of Law, One Dataset to Show for It
A review of Australia's 2022 data-sharing law finds it has produced just one dataset in three years, as agencies quietly bypass it in favour of their own systems.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Capcom's PC Problem Is Costing It More Than Just Reviews
Monster Hunter Wilds broke Capcom sales records, then fell apart on PC. Now the company is vowing to do better, with a big expansion and pricing cuts on the way.
Sarah Cheng 
Legend of Grimrock veteran's solo spaceship puzzler opens for playtesting
Finnish indie developer Antti Tiihonen, co-founder of Almost Human and a designer on Legend of Grimrock, has opened a pre-alpha playtest for Reconfigure, a puzzle-RPG-FPS set on a self-destructing starship.
Tom Whitfield 
X Moves to Flag AI War Videos, But the Policy Has Holes
X will suspend monetised creators who post unlabelled AI-generated armed conflict videos, as synthetic footage floods the platform amid the US-Israel-Iran conflict.
Aisha Khoury War Footage or War Fiction? The Deepfake Crisis Reshaping Conflict Reporting
Deepfakes, recycled footage, and video game clips are flooding social media as the US-Israel conflict with Iran escalates, exposing the limits of platform moderation.
Yuki Tamura The Hidden Cost of AI: Why Your Next Smartphone Will Be More Expensive
Smartphone makers at MWC 2026 have unanimously confirmed the RAM crisis is pushing up handset prices, with smaller brands hardest hit.
Oliver Pemberton 
Spy-Grade iPhone Toolkit 'Coruna' Has Escaped into Enemy Hands
Google researchers have exposed 'Coruna', a sophisticated iPhone exploit kit that appears to have originated with the US government before spreading to Russian spies and cryptocurrency criminals.
Aisha Khoury 
Murwillumbah swap meet organiser hit with $6,000 fine over Christmas charity event
Peita Gardiman organised a one-off Christmas swap meet in Murwillumbah. Thirteen families turned up. Tweed Shire Council sent a $6,000 fine.
Bruce Mackinnon 
The $78,000 Tax Bill Keeping Baby Boomers Locked In Their Family Homes
With stamp duty bills topping $78,000 in Sydney alone, older Australians are choosing to stay put rather than free up family homes for the next generation.
Zara Mitchell 
115,000 Australians Stranded as Albanese Holds Crisis Talks with UAE
Prime Minister Albanese has held emergency talks with UAE leadership as 115,000 Australians remain stranded across the Middle East following the closure of regional airspace.
Grace Okonkwo