Australia's office landlords are experiencing a market split in two. While premium buildings in major CBDs are tightening, older secondary-grade stock faces years of oversupply and declining rents.
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Amazon's second season of Jury Duty moves from the courtroom to a corporate offsite, trading legal absurdity for workplace chaos while keeping the show's core insight: ordinary people are surprisingly good.
Darren Ong The Reserve Bank's March 17 rate hike has thrown a spanner in the works for first-home buyers despite government support schemes. Mortgage stress is forecast to surge.
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Arizona filed criminal charges against Kalshi this week as prediction market backlash escalates, with lawmakers and regulators mounting pressure over gambling practices and dangerous market incentives.
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Microsoft is pivoting Windows 11 away from aggressive AI integration and feature additions toward fixing core performance, reliability, and usability problems that have eroded user trust.
Darren Ong Microsoft has acknowledged years of Windows 11 criticism and is restoring core features like movable taskbars while tackling performance issues that have eroded user trust.
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Amazon is reportedly developing a new smartphone code-named Transformer that would centre on its Alexa AI assistant, more than 10 years after abandoning the failed Fire Phone.
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Two landmark hospitality sales signal robust investor interest in premium Australian hotels and pubs, from Perisher Valley's highest altitude property to Sydney's most iconic beer garden.
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OpenClaw's unexpected viral success in early 2026 is forcing major AI labs to reconsider their browser agent strategies, with Google reshuffling its Project Mariner team amid a broader consolidation of agentic AI competition.
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Multiple startup founders have been hit with unexpected bills after using Anthropic's Claude via Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry, despite believing their startup credits would cover all costs.
Darren Ong Australia's property market is fracturing along geographic lines. Perth surged 2.3% in one month and 22% over the year, while Sydney and Melbourne flatlined. The real story isn't recovery—it's divergence.
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Google has updated Stitch, its AI design tool, to feature voice control and 'vibe design' that lets founders and designers move from concept to clickable prototype in minutes.
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Nvidia is building a multi-billion-dollar CPU business by producing just one 88-core Vera model, avoiding the manufacturing complexity that traditional chipmakers face.
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A dangerous security flaw in Cisco's firewall management software was actively exploited by the Interlock ransomware gang for over a month before Cisco released a patch, Amazon security researchers have revealed.
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Nintendo's Talking Flower toy reveals the company's shrewd approach to innovation: take calculated risks in low-cost products while keeping major console hardware conservative.
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Meta has launched Creator Fast Track, offering top creators up to $3,000 monthly to post on Facebook. It's the latest sign of just how much the platform struggles to compete for talent.
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Microsoft has hired the entire team of Cove, a Sequoia-backed AI startup, shutting down the service and marking another talent acquisition over a traditional company purchase.
Darren Ong Australian first home buyers now have access to five overlapping government schemes offering deposits as low as 2% and potentially saving $25,000–$42,000 in lender mortgage insurance.
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A California federal court has dismissed music streaming app Musi's lawsuit against Apple, ruling that Apple can remove apps from the App Store with or without cause. The court also sanctioned Musi's lawyers for making factually baseless allegations.
Darren Ong Australia's property market shows two faces: the purchase market remains resilient with clearance rates around 60%, but the rental market is collapsing, with vacancy at 1.1% and renters spending record 33.4% of income on housing.
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