Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Gaming companies use dark patterns—hidden fees, fake urgency, and matchmaking tricks—to push players toward spending more. The ACCC's new enforcement priorities show the regulator is ready to make developers pay.
Jake Nguyen 
Conntour raised $7M from General Catalyst and Y Combinator to build an AI search engine for security footage. The startup already operates in Singapore's Homeland Security.
Mitchell Tan 
Cohere has released Transcribe, an open-source voice model optimised for transcription tasks across 14 languages. The lean model outperforms larger competitors on accuracy benchmarks.
Yuki Tamura 
Sonos has released the Play, a $299 portable speaker that blends Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, emerging as the company's comeback product after a disastrous app overhaul.
Yuki Tamura 
DJI has launched the Avata 360, a 455-gram FPV drone with 8K 360-degree video capture. The drone faces off against Insta360's lighter Antigravity A1, representing two competing visions for immersive aerial content.
Kate Morrison 
English Wikipedia has voted to ban AI-generated articles, citing accuracy risks and the burden placed on volunteer editors to verify and clean up machine-written content.
Daniel Kovac 
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to investigate whether Snapchat is adequately protecting minors from grooming, criminal recruitment, and exposure to illegal products.
Tanya Birch 
After two years of field testing, portable wind turbines offer a genuine alternative to solar power, but success depends heavily on location and wind availability.
Liam Gallagher-Walsh 
Despite massive AI investments, workplace adoption is stalled. Forrester research shows employee fear and inadequate training are the real barriers to productivity gains.
Mitchell Tan GPU prices in Australia have surged beyond reach of most gamers. RTX 5090s cost $5,566, RAM is up 38%, and production cuts threaten gaming's future.
Jake Nguyen 
A sophisticated malware campaign that started with a compromised security scanner has evolved into a self-propagating worm targeting the npm ecosystem, with destructive payloads designed specifically for Iranian systems.
Sophia Vargas 
OpenAI has shelved plans for an adult-oriented ChatGPT mode after mounting concerns from its own advisors, investors, and staff about potential mental health harms and technical shortcomings.
Aisha Khoury 
Google is making it easier for Gemini users to bring their conversation history and preferences from rivals like ChatGPT and Claude, following similar moves by Anthropic.
Mitchell Tan 78% of Australian secondary schools have adopted AI tools, yet zero percent report feeling fully prepared. Days later, a US court found Meta and Google liable for deliberately designing addictive systems targeting children.
Priya Narayanan 
GitHub will begin using user interaction data to train its AI models starting April 24, 2026, marking a significant policy shift that puts the burden on individual developers to opt out.
Mitchell Tan 
A landmark Los Angeles court ruling has found Meta and Google liable for harms caused by addictive social media design. The verdict opens the door to thousands of pending cases and could force major changes to how platforms operate.
Meg Hadley 
A proof-of-concept attack reveals that Andrew Ng's new Context Hub service lacks safeguards against poisoned documentation, allowing attackers to manipulate AI coding agents through pull requests.
James Callahan 
Thousands of Discord users encountered widespread connection failures Wednesday afternoon, unable to start voice calls as the platform grappled with a significant service disruption.
Zara Mitchell 
New images from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes show Saturn in unprecedented detail, with infrared and visible-light views combining to reveal the gas giant's complex atmospheric structure and seasonal changes.
Victoria Crawford 
Virtual smartphones running in data centres are becoming the tool of choice for scammers, evading bank fraud detection systems that rely on outdated device fingerprinting methods.
Oliver Pemberton