Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
AirAsia has issued an urgent warning about fake customer service accounts circulating on social media, as scammers pose as airline representatives to steal personal and financial data from travellers.
Zara Mitchell 
Commonwealth Bank has built custom AI threat-hunting tools to cope with an explosion in cyber threats, highlighting how traditional security vendors struggle to keep pace with the scale of modern attacks.
Nadia Souris 
SUBCO has announced a new strategy to improve the resilience of its east-west cable corridor by splitting the Sydney-Melbourne segment across independent subsea and terrestrial paths, protecting critical infrastructure from disruption.
James Callahan 
Enterprise organisations are discovering that AI-generated code comes with hidden costs: lower quality, massive technical debt, and growing market pressure. Insiders warn the honeymoon period is ending.
Mitchell Tan 
NSW has rolled out digital birth certificates for 16 to 21-year-olds through the Service NSW app, becoming the first state offering this option on a mobile device.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Micron has begun high-volume production of HBM4 memory designed for Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI platform, delivering 2.3 times the bandwidth of previous generation memory while consuming 20% less power.
Yuki Tamura 
Google is rolling out a bookmark bar to Chrome on Android tablets and foldables, mirroring the desktop version. The feature appears in Chrome 146 and must be manually enabled.
Darren Ong 
After 12 years of resisting all hacking attempts, the original Xbox One has fallen to a sophisticated hardware-level exploit that Microsoft cannot patch with a software update.
Tom Whitfield 
Nvidia has unveiled DLSS 5, an AI tool that transforms video game character faces in real time. The technology has sparked controversy, with critics arguing it overwrites original character designs with artificial beauty standards.
Yuki Tamura 
NVIDIA and Estonian rideshare firm Bolt announced a partnership at GTC 2026 to develop autonomous vehicles for European cities, combining Bolt's operational data with NVIDIA's AI stack.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against xAI, claiming Grok generated sexualized images of them that were traded among predators. The case raises questions about AI safeguards and corporate responsibility.
Mitchell Tan 
A former Microsoft engineer famous for building Windows Task Manager is now training AI to master Robotron: 2084, a brutally difficult 1982 arcade game that puts machines through a real-time stress test of decision-making under chaos.
Zara Mitchell 
Nvidia is moving beyond GPUs to sell complete data centre solutions, bundling CPUs, networking, and storage into single systems. The strategy could entrench its dominance—or invite regulatory scrutiny.
Darren Ong 
After months of testing both mesh and traditional WiFi systems, here's what Australian households actually need to know about home connectivity.
Mitchell Tan 
Nvidia announced four new automakers joining its Drive Hyperion platform for Level 4 autonomous vehicles, with Uber robotaxis launching in 28 cities by 2028. Here's what it means for the competition.
Sarah Cheng 
Surgical robotics company Intuitive Surgical disclosed a phishing attack that compromised customer and employee data, but safeguards kept clinical systems safe. The incident reveals persistent weaknesses in medical technology security.
Helen Cartwright 
Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin Space Module at GTC 2026, claiming it could deliver 25 times more compute power than previous generations in space. But the engineering challenges remain substantial.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, an enterprise security layer for OpenClaw agents, as companies grapple with the productivity promise and security nightmare of autonomous AI tools.
Oliver Pemberton 
Disney Imagineering has unveiled a free-roaming Olaf robot that walks, talks, and interacts with guests. The breakthrough combines AI and mechanical engineering to translate animation into living character.
Kate Morrison 
Memories.ai is building the infrastructure to help AI wearables and robots retain visual memories. The company just announced a partnership with Nvidia to accelerate its technology toward a market still gathering momentum.
Sophia Vargas