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GUEST OPINION: As the world focuses on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Australian organisations must brace themselves for a different kind of competition – one that takes place in the cyber arena. These games provide a prime target for cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike, aiming to exploit the massive global attention and the surge in digital interactions during the event.

SK Telecom (SKT) announced it has invested US$10 million in generative AI search engine startup Perplexity AI.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

GUEST OPINION by Jeff Wagner, Solution Architect, Datacom: It was the Sora video of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow that tipped me over the edge into mushy awe at what the latest AI model from OpenAI is capable of.

Online advertising is a common element in the digital world nowadays. There are many types of ads online. Some of them are influencer-made ads, social media ads, email ads, etc. These ads tend to frustrate your social media scrolling or web surfing experience.

GUEST RESEARCH: As of October 2023, researchers at Bitdefender Labs have been actively keeping tabs on steam-jacking attacks against high-profile YouTube accounts used to conduct myriad crypto doubling scams.

The Meta family of apps—Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger—request the most data from smartphone users, according to research from data centre company TRG Datacenters.

Google appears to have begun warning YouTube users who have ad blockers in their browsers when they try to access videos on the site.

It seems the biggest online tech platforms are falling short when it comes to tackling the proliferation of child sexual exploitation, sexual extortion, and the livestreaming of child sexual abuse, according to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s second report.

Security specialist Bitdefender warns of a rapid increase in YouTube stream-jacking attacks that involve either re-directing followers of a popular channel or taking full control of it.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, an American lobby group for the sector, has leaked claims that Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to get around US sanctions by acquiring chip factories and also constructing them.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has reported an increase of 7% in annual revenue for the second quarter which ended on 30 June, pulling in US$74.6 billion (A$109.9 billion).

The late Dr Laurence J. Peter, who is known for his seminal work, The Peter Principle, developed the thesis that, given enough ranks in a company bureaucracy, people always tend to rise to their level of incompetence.

Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is making a bid to return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of 2023, Reuters reports.

Some US federal agencies have been banned from contacting social media companies to push for removal of material the government deems inappropriate.

Search giant Google is testing out technology to prevent YouTube users who use ad blocking software from viewing videos after a certain number of visits.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates has announced an integration between Manhattan Active Omni and Google’s Merchant Centre. The integration leverages Google’s Content API for Shopping to enable Manhattan Active Omni retailers to provide shoppers with more accurate location- and product-specific delivery times across Google surfaces, including Search, YouTube, Maps, Discover, and more.

Broadband services provider Wow! Internet, Cable & Phone has partnered with Google to offer YouTube TV as its line television offering.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first flat mini-LED model, the Odyssey Neo G7, an addition to the Odyssey lineup.

COMPANY NEWS: Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, announced that as of 31 December 2022, it is now helping approximately 71,000 active customers succeed with Apple and is running on approximately 30 million devices worldwide.