All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
The Analogue Pocket is back in stock but now costs $240, while rival AYN is raising prices on its Thor and Odin 3 handhelds — a sign of broader cost pressures hitting gaming hardware.
Aisha Khoury 
Three US F-15E Strike Eagles were accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defences over Kuwait during Operation Epic Fury, with all six crew members ejecting safely.
Yuki Tamura 
World of Warcraft: Midnight launched on March 2, but players have already spotted a locked-off island that looks like Blizzard's next big content drop.
Jake Nguyen 
Mastodon has launched an official 'Share to Mastodon' button that works across its sprawling network of servers, with no tracking data collected.
Yuki Tamura 
US prediction market Kalshi faces a customer backlash after settling its $54.5m Ayatollah Khamenei contract at pre-death prices, not at $1, following his killing in US-Israeli strikes.
Mitchell Tan A widely used Iranian prayer app was reportedly hijacked to send defection calls to millions of users as US-Israeli strikes hit Iran on 28 February.
Sophia Vargas Apple is reportedly asking Google to host the next version of Siri on its servers, raising fresh questions about the company's AI strategy and its commitment to privacy-first cloud computing.
Mitchell Tan 
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto is turning a point to prove into one of Super Rugby Pacific's most compelling early-season stories, with the Reds heading to Canberra to face an undefeated Brumbies side.
Megan Torres The US military has struck Iran with clones of Tehran's own Shahed-136 suicide drones, marking the combat debut of the LUCAS system in Operation Epic Fury.
Yuki Tamura 
Lloyd Blankfein, who steered Goldman Sachs through the 2008 crisis, says the world is "due for a kind of reckoning" over opaque private credit markets. For Australia, the warning hits close to home.
Oliver Pemberton Businesses adopting AI are cutting corners on security, leaving sensitive data exposed. Experts and global agencies say the gap between deployment speed and governance is a crisis in the making.
Oliver Pemberton Web-scraping bots are targeting scarce DDR5 memory stock for resale while Gartner warns the entry-level PC market may cease to exist within two years.
Sophia Vargas 
Billy Slater has expressed disbelief after Stephen Crichton escaped any sanction from the NRL's Match Review Committee for a high tackle on Dragons debutant Setu Tu in Las Vegas.
Mitchell Tan Motorola has partnered with the GrapheneOS Foundation, ending the privacy OS's long exclusivity with Google Pixel hardware and targeting flagship Motorola devices by 2027.
Mitchell Tan 
SpaceX unveiled its Starlink V2 satellite roadmap at MWC Barcelona, targeting 150 Mbps speeds and sealing a deal with Deutsche Telekom to cover 140 million European subscribers.
Oliver Pemberton AI tools are flooding software development with vulnerable code faster than security teams can fix it. But is the industry's AI-powered cure credible?
Nadia Souris 
Nvidia's RTX 5070 leapt to the top of Steam's GPU charts in February, but questions about survey accuracy and Chinese café gaming complicate the headline.
Mitchell Tan Agentic AI is moving from pilot to production at companies like Telstra, but security experts warn the same autonomy that makes it productive could make it dangerous.
Darren Ong Telstra is weeks from piloting agentic AI via Salesforce's Agentforce platform, but senior executives warn the technology must prove its cost case before broad deployment.
Mitchell Tan 
Pokémon Pokopia launches March 5 with a Metacritic score of 89, making it the highest-rated Pokémon game ever released, beating 30 years of mainline titles.
Kate Morrison 
Pokemon Winds and Waves won't arrive until 2027, leaving Nintendo's Switch 2 without its most bankable franchise for the holiday season — and Western sales are already soft.
Darren Ong 
WoW: Midnight is live, and the Silvermoon City remake has players emotional. Now they want Blizzard to redo every old capital.
Jake Nguyen 
The 2026 AFL season kicks off Thursday with the sport's most sweeping changes in decades, including a new wildcard finals round and the end of a 139-year tradition.
Patrick Donnelly 
Fresh data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows more than half of Australian employers still have a gender pay gap above 11.2 per cent, with men nearly twice as likely to hold the highest-paid roles.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
EA's Javelin anti-cheat is reporting a 94% success rate against cheat vendors in Battlefield 6, but players are pushing back on how that number is actually measured.
Fatima Al-Rashid Meta is testing an AI feature that adds shopping links to Instagram posts without creators' consent, sparking backlash over rights, transparency, and commercial exploitation.
Daniel Kovac Windows 11 has surged to 72.57% global market share, driven by Microsoft cutting Windows 10 support. But millions of devices — and a fifth of monitored servers — remain stubbornly behind.
Sophia Vargas 
A compact reinforced concrete home printed by robots in Miyagi Prefecture has passed Japan's strict seismic building code, opening new possibilities for automated construction.
Victoria Crawford 
More than 1,100 ships have had their GPS signals spoofed or jammed in the Middle East Gulf since US-Israeli strikes on Iran began, threatening global oil flows and triggering cyber warnings from London to Canberra.
Oliver Pemberton The UK's NCSC has urged businesses to harden cyber defences as Iran-linked hackers could target organisations with regional ties following US-Israeli strikes.
Nadia Souris