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Australians are prioritising comfort, durability and timeless style over price and fast-changing trends when choosing furniture for their homes.

Online creators turn from volatile ad deals to subscriptions, affiliates and paid events, bringing bigger paydays but trickier tax demands.

Vection wins Dell and Intel award for Algho Sign Language AI, a real-time Italian sign translation system using a 3D digital human avatar.

Digital rights group warns Australians to resist 'privacy paradox', urging tougher laws and everyday steps to curb online data tracking.

Adobe broadens Firefly Foundry with major Hollywood deals, pitching brand-safe generative AI tools for film, TV and immersive content.

Social media creators urged to treat content as a business as dashboard payouts ignore platform cuts, tax and rising running costs.

Attackers are abusing LinkedIn private messages to deliver Python-based malware via booby-trapped archives, ReliaQuest has warned.

Online shopping scams in the UK jumped 416% in late 2025 as malvertising, social media fake shops and deepfake frauds surged, Gen warns.

Australian parents report rising back-to-school stress, with many turning to printed planners and checklists to cut screens and calm mornings.

Governments worldwide tighten social media age checks for children, fuelling demand for privacy-friendly facial age estimation tools.

A deepfake surge is driving relentless AI-powered celebrity scams, with persona kits and adaptive fraud campaigns eroding online trust.

Australian online florist LVLY is shortlisted in three customer service and online retail categories at the 2026 Inside Retail awards.

Microsoft again tops global phishing brand list as attackers increasingly mimic big tech services to steal cloud and consumer credentials.

Australians greatly overestimate their ability to spot AI-driven scam images, with new research showing they get it right less than half the time.

Infoblox agrees to buy AI-driven threat hunter Axur, aiming to curb phishing and brand abuse beyond the traditional network perimeter.

Instagram denies a data breach after a dataset on 17m users appears on hacking forums, blaming old leak scraps and a fixed reset bug.

Virgin Australia shifts to self-serve Adobe tools, boosting marketing output 40% and cutting design bottlenecks across the airline.

Kyowon outage and an Instagram bug expose entrenched identity security gaps across APAC, from credential hygiene to privileged access.

Most Australians think they can spot AI scams, but new research shows fewer than half can correctly identify deepfake images in tests.

AI agents will reshape how shoppers discover brands, forcing retailers to rethink visibility as SaaS vendors and ad budgets come under strain.