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Noah Labs AI touts governed software agents for defence
Governed agents could speed urgent fixes in defence systems while keeping air-gapped code changes auditable, approved and traceable.

The Warriors sit atop the NRL ladder: Why this could finally be their year
ANALYSIS: The hype is only going to continue to grow, but the Warriors appear to be living up to it.

AWS Glue 6.0 cuts prices 30% with Iceberg v3 support
Lower ETL bills and broader open-table support may tempt data teams as AWS Glue 6.0 adds Iceberg v3 and new runtimes.

Your competition for cheap RAM: Massive swarms of scalper bots
When an in-demand product gets scarce, the vultures of consumerism descend. Resellers insert themselves between something people want and suppliers, sucking up every possible dollar to be made. So it went with GPUs and webcams and toilet paper in the pandemic, so it goes with RAM in 2026. For at...

Esports World Cup ends with surprise win for China-based team
AG.AL claim the overall title and $7m (£5.1m) top prize at the third Esports World Cup in Paris.

LinkedIn’s ‘Seems like AI slop’ button has already been used 1 million times
A few weeks ago, LinkedIn began testing a “seems like AI slop” button to report suspected spam on its social media platform, and it has proved extremely popular. According to LinkedIn’s product manager, Hari Srinivasan, the button has already been used over a million times. As a result, the number...

Grant Thornton Australia to join international advisory platform

Windows 3D Pinball died because the ball kept falling through the floor
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has now revealed why the classic pinball game 3D Pinball: Space Cadet disappeared from Windows after Windows XP. The story was first reported by Windows Latest. According to Chen, problems arose when the Windows code was being adapted from 32-bit to 64-bit. In an early 64-bit...

Tumeryk & Carahsoft bring AI trust score to agencies
Agencies under pressure to prove AI systems are secure and compliant will get access to Tumeryk's trust-scoring tools through Carahsoft's contracts.

Agiloft adds no-code contract management to Salesforce
Sales and legal teams can now handle contract requests inside Salesforce, with Agiloft aiming to cut manual tracking and data mismatches.

Good, bad and the ugly: Five takeaways from the All Blacks’ win over the Springboks
The All Blacks head to Cape Town with a 1-0 lead, but they’ll be far from comfortable after their 33-16 victory at Ellis Park.

Google Cloud urges fallback planning for AI workloads
Enterprises facing AI demand spikes are being told to secure spare capacity and automate backups to avoid outages and overspending.

QiO pitches autonomous optimisation for industrial AI
The repositioning aims to win over energy-hungry manufacturers and data centres by promising real-time savings without replacing existing systems.

EsDeeKid mystery no problem for fans after 'insane' All Points East set
We still don't know the Scouse rapper's true identity, but do music lovers really care who he is?

EDB launches disaster recovery for WarehousePG analytics
Customers running petabyte-scale analytics can now recover full WarehousePG clusters after site outages, cutting downtime and data-loss risk.

Google Cloud sets four rules for AI agent delegation
The guidance could help firms curb AI costs, protect sensitive data and reduce the risk of errors spreading through agent chains.

UltraViolet Cyber names Andrew Park as security chief
The appointment gives UltraViolet Cyber a CISO who knows its operations from the client side and will steer AI governance and internal security.