My Personal Data Has Been Leaked Several Times - This Service Helped Clean It All Up
DeleteMe is a subscription‑based data‑removal service that scans the web for personal information and files opt‑out requests on behalf of users. In a ZDNET test, the platform examined 371 listings and successfully removed 44 within five days, with additional takedowns still in progress. The service also includes email‑masking, phone‑masking and a self‑service search tool to monitor results. Plans start at $129 per year for a single user, with family options and multi‑year discounts.
APS Assistant Minister Gives ‘the Bottom Line’ on AI in Government
Australian Public Service (APS) assistant minister Patrick Gorman told the Institute for Public Administration Australia ACT’s AI summit that artificial intelligence is now a practical reality for government. He announced that service‑wide guidance on AI consultation will be issued imminently....
Independent Panel Approves Gigawatt Scale Battery Three Months After Local Opponents Force Referral
The NSW Independent Planning Commission approved Iberdrola’s 270 MW/1,080 MWh Kingswood standalone battery south of Tamworth. The decision came three months after the project was referred following more than 60 public objections, many from local residents concerned about visual, transport and fire...
Leap Strategies Sees Rise in Sovereignty Queries From Mid-Market
Leap Strategies reports a surge in data sovereignty questions from Australian mid‑market firms as compliance mandates intensify. The company notes that governance, risk and compliance discussions have moved from purely legal concerns to deep technical involvement, prompting customers to consider...
Bio-Sourcing and Tiny Cargo Partner on Orally Delivered mAbs Using Goat Milk Exosomes
Bio‑Sourcing and The Tiny Cargo Company announced a strategic collaboration to co‑develop orally delivered monoclonal antibody therapies using goat‑milk‑derived exosomes. The partnership merges Bio‑Sourcing’s BioMilk platform, which produces high‑yield antibodies and milk extracellular vesicles in transgenic goats, with Tiny Cargo’s...
Winter 2026
The Winter 2026 issue of FedTech Magazine surveys the federal government’s tech agenda, spotlighting AI‑enabled zero‑trust, cloud‑first modernization, and legacy hardware like NASA’s GRiD Compass. It features a Q&A with Palo Alto’s Eric Trexler on identity‑first, AI‑secure cyberdefenses, and examines whether...
This Viral Wireless Dongle Lets You Share Your Audio on a Flight - How It Works
Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 is a compact Bluetooth dongle that turns any 3.5 mm audio source—such as an airplane’s entertainment jack—into a wireless feed for personal headphones. The device supports dual‑headphone pairing, features an upgraded Qualcomm chip for clearer sound and...
Youi Appoints Veridooh As Its Exclusive OOH Independent Verification Partner
Australian insurer Youi has appointed out‑of‑home verification platform Veridooh as its exclusive independent verification partner. Veridooh’s SmartCreative technology will provide real‑time tracking, measurement and verification of Youi’s OOH campaigns, aligning metrics with the insurer’s digital KPIs. The partnership enables mid‑campaign...
Star Systems International Transponders Used in Thailand's Toll System
Star Systems International is supplying its Chara transponders for Thailand’s new M‑Flow tolling system, which seeks to replace manual cash payments with electronic toll collection (ETC). The transponders, OmniAir‑certified and engineered for high‑speed, extreme‑temperature environments, will work in tandem with...
CEPI Says Recycling Sector Ready for ‘Made in Europe’ Policy
European paper industry group CEPI says the continent’s recycling infrastructure is ready to underpin a ‘Made in Europe’ policy that ties bio‑based materials to industrial competitiveness. With an 87 percent recycling rate for paper packaging and sustainably managed forests, the EU...
Mydeposits and Reposit Join Forces
mydeposits has partnered with Reposit to let letting agents manage both traditional tenancy deposits and Reposit’s fee‑based alternative on a single platform. The integration combines mydeposits’ government‑authorised protection scheme with Reposit’s model where tenants pay a one‑week‑rent fee and landlords...
Why Disabling the SQL Server Sa Account Still Matters in 2026
Even with SQL Server’s 2026 security enhancements, the built‑in sa account remains a critical attack vector. Attack tools still assume sa exists and brute‑force its password, giving adversaries immediate sysadmin control. Because sa bypasses many modern access controls, compromising it...
Seer Fixes Seer: How Seer Pointed Us Toward a Bug and Helped Fix an Outage
On February 21, 2026 Sentry’s AI‑powered Seer service suffered an 80‑90% failure rate in its EU Issue Summary API after a Google Cloud Vertex AI Gemini outage triggered a bug in Seer’s region‑fallback logic. The bug blocklisted the provisioned‑throughput region europe‑west1,...
Lab-Grown Oesophagus Restores Pigs’ Ability to Swallow
Scientists at University College London have engineered bio‑grown oesophageal segments using patient‑derived stem cells and implanted them into minipigs, restoring normal swallowing. The grafts were seeded onto decellularized scaffolds, covered with a biodegradable mesh, and integrated functional muscle, nerves, and...
Shift Gears: 10 Stories Redefining Enterprise IT
Red Hat unveiled a suite of production‑ready tools aimed at simplifying enterprise AI, container, and virtualization workloads for 2026. Highlights include the Sovereignty Readiness Assessment, an enterprise‑grade Podman Desktop, and a migration toolkit that accelerates VM moves tenfold. The company also...
Solve Multi-Controller Contention with Red Hat OpenShift Networking
Red Hat OpenShift now supports governed multi‑controller load balancing using the Kubernetes loadBalancerClass field. By assigning a class to external services, enterprises can separate MetalLB’s internal load‑balancing from hardware‑based solutions like F5 BIG‑IP, preventing controller contention. The approach eliminates race conditions, ensures deterministic...
The Mandarin Live: Future Ready Public Service Canberra
The Mandarin Live: Future Ready Public Service summit will take place on 17 June 2026 in Canberra and online, gathering senior Australian Public Service (APS) leaders to address the next phase of digital reform. The event emphasizes stewardship, systemic integrity and scaling...
Deeptune Raises $43M to Accelerate AI Learning Through Virtual Training Gyms
Deeptune Inc. announced a $43 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aimed at scaling its AI "training gyms" that simulate professional workflows. The New‑York startup creates high‑fidelity reinforcement‑learning environments for tasks ranging from DevOps to customer support, turning data collection...
Davidson: It’s Time for Naked 2.0
AI and automation are driving down the cost of media execution, exposing a mismatch in traditional agency billing that bundles strategic thinking with operational work. The article argues for separating these functions: pricing execution on measurable outputs while charging a...
NASA's Artemis Missions Promise a Return to the Moon—But When?
NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar flyby is slated for April 2026, marking the first human deep‑space mission in over five decades. The program’s flagship landing mission, Artemis III, has been pushed back, with a crewed touchdown now expected in 2028 under the Artemis IV...
X Adds AI Article Summaries In-Stream
X introduced an AI‑powered “Summarize” button for native X Articles, delivering concise TL;DR bullet points and an AI‑generated audio version. The feature, initially limited to Premium+ members, is now available to all paying subscribers as part of a broader push...
X Adds Comment Downvotes to Improve Algorithmic Ranking
X is testing a new comment downvote button for replies, available only to Premium subscribers. Users can select one of five reasons—Not interested, Incorrect, AI generated, Spam, or Report—when downvoting, but the count won’t affect the like total. The move...
NSF Awards $11M to Expand AI Training for K-12 Teachers
The National Science Foundation has awarded $11 million to the Computer Science Teachers Association to launch a multistate professional development program that equips K‑12 teachers with foundational computer science and artificial intelligence skills. The two‑year initiative will roll out in six...
Pinterest Shares Tips on How to Utilize Its AI-Powered Ad Options
Pinterest has released new guidance for its AI‑driven Performance+ campaigns, which automate creative, targeting and budgeting. Launched in October 2024, the fully automated solution leverages Pinterest’s engagement data to optimize ad delivery. Internal tests show advertisers achieve more than 10%...
AI Brings Val Kilmer Back To Life In New Movie
The Australian Football League’s 2026 season, running March 5‑September 26, will be streamed live and free on the 7plus platform. Although 7plus is geo‑blocked to Australia, viewers worldwide can bypass restrictions using a VPN, with ExpressVPN highlighted as the top choice. The...
Drug Development Is Booming in China. Should the U.S. View It as a Threat or an Opportunity?
China’s biotech sector is experiencing a rapid surge, now hosting more CAR‑T cell trials than the United States. The growth is driven by a dual‑track regulatory framework that enables fast‑track, investigator‑initiated trials with minimal red tape. U.S. experts warn that...
Singapore, Japan Align IoT Security Frameworks for Digital Resilience
Singapore and Japan have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to mutually recognise each other’s IoT cybersecurity labelling schemes. The agreement lets devices certified in one country obtain the other’s Level 1 label through a streamlined process, cutting duplicate testing. It also...
Dollar General, Five Below Each Seek to Enhance Omnichannel Experiences
Discount retailers Dollar General and Five Below used their Q4 earnings calls to outline new digital initiatives aimed at strengthening omnichannel experiences. Dollar General reported a 4.3% same‑store sales increase and highlighted its expanded delivery network, upgraded search, and a...
Amelia Van Camp: Preparing for Agentic Commerce Now and for the Future
At the Mirakl Summit in London, Head of Agentic Commerce Amelia Van Camp highlighted how AI is reshaping marketplace ecosystems. She explained Mirakl’s strategy for embedding large‑language models into category mapping, customer experience, product sourcing and retail media. The discussion...
The Future Is Now, Almost
Digital government in Australia is a patchwork of progress and lag, with basic services still relying on paper and fax while some regions experiment with AI. Victor Dominello, former NSW minister, outlined a four‑stage evolution—Government 1.0 to 4.0—culminating in agentic...
Australia: Facial Recognition Aids Regulatory Oversight, Compliance
Australian authorities in New South Wales have issued guidelines for deploying facial‑recognition systems in venues that host electronic gaming machines. The technology is intended to verify identities in real time, enforce self‑exclusion registers, and bolster broader financial‑crime monitoring. Advanced AI...
China Considers Volcanic Site For Its First Moon Landing
China is targeting a crewed lunar landing in 2030 and has identified the volcanic Rimae Bode region as the preferred site after evaluating 106 candidates and narrowing them to 14. The area’s mix of dark pyroclastic deposits, mare basalts, rille...
Magnetic Fields Guide Lab-Grown Blood Vessels Into Precise Patterns for Drug Testing
Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (IPC PAS) and the University of Warsaw have created a magnetic‑field‑driven system that arranges endothelial‑cell‑coated microparticles into predefined lattices, prompting the growth of microvascular networks with precise architecture. By using super‑paramagnetic beads and micromagnets,...
Why Companies Are Hiring Freelance Developers to Support Recruitment Technology
Recruitment firms are increasingly turning to freelance developers to build, maintain, and upgrade their digital hiring platforms. Traditional full‑time hiring or agency contracts are seen as slow and expensive, prompting HR teams to seek flexible, project‑based talent. Freelancers bring specialized...
2,400 Kaiser Mental Health Professionals Strike in California Over AI Concerns
Around 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental‑health clinicians walked off the job in Northern California, protesting what they describe as a looming shift toward artificial‑intelligence‑driven therapy. The strike coincided with a one‑day walkout by more than 23,000 Kaiser nurses, highlighting broader workforce...
Inside One VC’s Litmus Test for Investable Healthcare AI Startups
Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Yahoo, Google and Twitter executive, transitioned into healthcare investing after a stint as CMO at Color Genomics. In 2019 she founded Moxxie Ventures, focusing on early‑stage AI‑driven health companies such as Dandelion Health, Pharos Health, Luminai...
Super Micro Co-Founder Charged With Smuggling, Departs Board
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Yih‑Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co‑founder of Super Micro Computer Inc., for allegedly diverting billions of dollars in Nvidia‑powered servers to China via a Southeast Asian intermediary, breaching export‑control regulations. Prosecutors allege Liaw and two...
How PreSeed Is Tackling the Sperm Donor Shortage
PreSeed Fertility launched a recruitment and matching platform to address the stark gap between the over 100,000 U.S. families searching for sperm donors and the roughly 1,500 donors currently registered. The service pairs families with a concierge specialist and provides...
AI Legal Tech Startup MiAI Law Raised $2 Million
Australian legal‑tech startup MiAI Law, founded by barrister Laina Chan, announced a $2 million seed round raised in five days from family, staff and angel investors. The platform differentiates itself by linking case law and statutes through a transparent reasoning engine...
Quarterly Economics Update: Generative AI Is Rewriting Knowledge Work — But the Real Economic Shock Is Still Coming
Generative AI is beginning to lower the marginal cost of knowledge work across professional services, enabling employees to produce the same output faster. While most firms are still using AI at the individual level, the true economic shock will arrive...
Justice Department Disrupts Iranian Cyber Enabled Psychological Operations
The U.S. Justice Department seized four domains used by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security for cyber‑enabled psychological operations and transnational repression. The sites—Justicehomeland.org, Handala‑Hack.to, Karmabelow80.org, and Handala‑Redwanted.to—were employed to claim hack credit, publish stolen data, and issue death threats...
Recursion’s Khan: AI Will Be Judged by the Medicines It Makes
Recursion Pharmaceuticals CEO Najat Khan says AI’s worth will be judged by the medicines it helps create, not by the sophistication of the tools. She emphasizes deploying AI selectively in chemistry, trial execution, and out‑of‑domain predictions to generate clinical proof...
Opella Healthcare Launches Manufacturing Electrification Project Backed by $1.94M in Federal Funding
Opella Healthcare has launched a manufacturing electrification project at its North Brisbane plant, backed by a $1.94 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. The initiative replaces gas‑fired dehumidification with heat‑pump technology, aiming to cut roughly 1,200 tonnes of CO₂ each...
Vodafone Swaps Product Demo for Moshpit in Samsung Launch
Vodafone unveiled its new experiential platform, “First Night Only,” in partnership with Howatson+Company, turning the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch into an underground live show featuring Genesis Owusu in Sydney. The event highlighted the phone’s 200MP camera with bespoke lighting and...
Cyprus Orders Mandatory Acceptance of Digital Citizen App Credentials
Cyprus has issued a legal order that obliges all organizations to treat identity documents presented through the Digital Citizen mobile app as equivalent to their physical counterparts in face‑to‑face transactions. The decree, signed by the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation...
OnePlus 15T Brings 3D Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor to Its In-Display Biometrics
OnePlus confirmed that its upcoming 15T flagship will ship with a 3D ultrasonic in‑display fingerprint sensor, marking a step up from the optical solutions used in earlier models. The device also features a 6.32‑inch flat AMOLED panel at 165 Hz, a...
Clearing the Nanoscale Bottleneck Holding Back Next-Gen Electronics
UCLA researchers have introduced a contact‑induced charge‑transfer doping technique that uses silver‑oxide nanoclusters to dramatically thin the metal‑perovskite interface from roughly 250 nm to under 25 nm, enabling quantum‑mechanical tunneling of electrons. Published in Nature Materials, the method replaces traditional bulk doping,...
Scoop: Anthropic Meets with House Homeland Security Behind Closed Doors
Anthropic co‑founder Jack Clark met privately with the bipartisan House Homeland Security Committee, discussing AI model distillation and export‑control challenges. The Pentagon dispute over Anthropic’s supply‑chain risk designation was only briefly mentioned. The session was described as friendly, reflecting Anthropic’s...
AI Conundrum: Why MCP Security Can't Be Patched Away
Enterprises are rapidly wiring large language models to external services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), unlocking powerful automation but also exposing a novel attack surface. Because MCP turns LLMs from passive responders into autonomous agents, they can execute actions...
Gemini for Android Redesigns Voice Input to Be Like Audio Memos
Google’s Gemini app for Android has overhauled its voice input, swapping the real‑time transcription field for a waveform interface that mimics audio memos in messaging apps. Users now tap a Stop button to review transcribed text or a pulsating Send...