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AI holds the capacity to reinvent our professional experiences just as the Internet did in the late 90s. However, AI's advancement is far outpacing the growth of the Internet. If businesses want to remain competitive, it's critical to adapt and keep up with AI developments.

• AI
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI Development
• future of work

Australia’s contentious new social media age-restriction laws—praised by some as a necessary safeguard and condemned by others as blunt-force censorship—are now headed for a constitutional showdown. Two 15-year-olds,Noah Jones andMary Neyland, with the backing of the advocacy groupDigital Freedom Project, have lodged proceedings in the High Court to challenge the national ban booting young teenagers off platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.

• Social media
• TikTok
• YouTube
• Instagam

GUEST RESEARCH:  Identity fraud has entered a new era of industrial-scale deception, with deepfake-enabled attacks now surging across biometric verification systems, according to the Entrust 2026 Identity Fraud Report. The analysis reveals that one in five biometric fraud attempts now involves deepfakes, with deepfaked selfies skyrocketing 58% in 2025, underscoring how generative AI is reshaping the threat landscape.

• Deepfake
• Identity fraud
• verification
• fraudsters
• Attacks

GUEST RESEARCH:  Fragmentation, skill gaps and technology bottlenecks constrain value delivery

• OneAdvanced
• World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC)
• Adam Bowles
• Sharon Morris
• public sector
• Contracting
• Report
• satisfaction
• Adaptability
• Regional
• Procurement
• contract management

IDEMIA Secure Transactions (IST) and eSIM Go have combined their expertise in secure connectivity and flexible digital infrastructure to enable nascent and established service providers - including brands in travel, telecom, fintech, and more - to offer and manage connectivity services effortlessly through eSIM technology.

• eSIM Go
• IDEMIA Secure Transactions (IST)
• eSIM Services
• Secure connectivity
• Digital infrastructure
• Mikkel ESCARTIN, Head of Digital Solutions for Connectivity Services at IDEMIA Secure Transactions
• Darren SHAW, Chief Product Officer at eSIM Go

COMPANY NEWS:  Decision sees Macquarie Group Executive Luke Clifton join the Board and strengthens industry leadership and industry commitment to customer service

• Macquarie Technology Group
• ATA
• Constitution
• Appoints
• telecom
• Luke Clifton
• Australian Telecommunications Alliance’s (ATA)

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest days in retail.

• Tenable
• Ping Identity
• Dynatrace
• Check Point Software Technologies
• Philippe Deblois
• Retail
• Scott Caveza
• sales
• shoppers
• black friday

Industrial IoT data company M2M One has launched a dedicated IoT eSIM service in partnership with Telstra.

• Kat Dempsey
• Senior Director for Revenue and Services, APAC at Semtech
• M2M One
• IoT eSIM service
• Telstra
• IoT data
• eSIM

While IT security is now very much a focus for company boards, operational technology (OT) security in Australia is way behind, and it will take years to catch up, says Robert M Lee, cofounder and CEO of Dragos, a company specialising in the protection of operational technology and industrial control systems.

• Stuart Corner
• Security
• operational technology (OT)
• Robert M Lee
• Dragos
• Protection
• industrial control systems
• awareness
• Governments

As Black Friday spending hits a record $6.8 billion, new research reveals how bad experiences impact sales and erode shopper loyalty

• Qualtrics
• Ivana Papanicolaou
• customer
• black friday
• Qualtrics XM Institute
• shoppers
• Cost
• businesses
• peak season
• sales
• Cyber Monday
• consumers

Black Friday has become Australia’s biggest shopping event of the year - a pre-Christmas institution where retailers slash prices and consumers justify buying gadgets they absolutely need (or at least need to believe they need). What started as a US post-Thanksgiving tradition is now a global long-weekend of online chaos, impulse buys and surprisingly good tech bargains.

• David M Williams
• black friday
• sales
• Black Friday deals
• Black Friday sales
• Cricut
• Xiaomi
• Sonos
• Nanoleaf
• 2K Games

As a teenager, my favourite sitcom was WKRP in Cincinnati, a show about the well-meaning but befuddled staff of a struggling radio station. One episode stands out: the Thanksgiving special. In a misguided promotion, Station Manager Mr. Carlson launches live turkeys from a helicopter, genuinely believing they could fly. His famous line, "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly," always made me laugh. I used to think no one in real life could be that naive.

• black friday
• Fraud
• Mobile Ecosystem Forum
• Nicholae Rossman

Cybersecurity company Trend Micro has released its annual Security Predictions Report for 2026, “warning that the coming year” will mark the true industrialisation of cybercrime.

• Trend Micro
• Cybercrime
• 2026
• Security Predictions Report for 2026
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Automation
• Ryan Flores
• Lead of ForwardLooking Threat Research at Trend
• Ransomware

APAC AI consultancy, V2 AI, has released the 2nd edition of itsState of AI in Australia report revealing that while AI adoption is booming across Australian businesses, unlocking its full value depends on organisations upskilling their workforces, building best-practice operating models, and embedding robust responsible AI and security frameworks.

• V2 AI research
• AI uptake
• businesses
• capability and trust
• APAC AI consultancy
• State of AI in Australia
• AI adoption