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Australian consumer frustrated with website search experience

72% of Australians abandon brands over poor site search

News / 2026-03-06

• 72% of 1,000+ Australian consumers surveyed abandoned a brand due to poor site search.
• 69% of respondents said they had yelled at a search box when it failed.
• 62% turned to external search engines after on-site search failed.
• 78% of those external searchers were redirected to competitor brands or products.
• 55% said they would pay more on a competitor’s site for an easier search experience.

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AI agents choosing Bitcoin over traditional fiat currency in financial decisions

AI agents prefer Bitcoin over fiat in new study

News / 2026-03-06

As autonomous AI agents move closer to handling real-world transactions, new research raises questions about what kind of money they would choose to use. The findings suggest that when machines are given economic autonomy, they gravitate toward digital assets rather than traditional currencies. The study tested frontier models from six major providers and found a

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Microsoft report highlights AI security gaps in Australian organisations

Microsoft finds half of Australian firms lack AI security

News / 2026-03-05

• 53 per cent of Australian organisations lack GenAI-specific security controls, according to Microsoft’s 2026 Security Data Index.
• Over 80 per cent of Fortune 500 companies have active AI agents built with low-code/no-code tools.
• Microsoft projects more than 1.3 billion autonomous AI agents will operate globally by 2028.
• Financial services accounts for approximately 11 per cent of active AI agents worldwide.

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Spacera launches free meeting room dashboard Photon

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-03-04

• Spacera launches Photon, a free dashboard for meeting room fleet visibility across Teams, Zoom and Webex.
• No hardware, software agents or additional fees required — unlimited rooms and users.
• Targets the “visibility tax” — baseline monitoring previously bundled into paid managed service contracts.
• Sydney-based startup aims to shift competition toward reliability and performance outcomes.
• Paid tiers Mission Control and Hypercare offer AI-driven self-healing and operational management.

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Claude tops US App Store after Pentagon contract dispute

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-03-03

• Claude reached No. 1 in Apple’s US App Store free app rankings, overtaking ChatGPT.
• Claude climbed from outside the top 100 in late January to No. 1 in early March.
• Daily signups set all-time records each day of the referenced week, Anthropic says.
• Free users increased more than 60 per cent since January, according to Anthropic.
• Paid subscribers more than doubled in 2026, the company says.

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Bosses and workers split on whether AI will create jobs

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-02-25

• Survey covered 6,000 firms across US, UK, Germany and Australia.
• Over 80% of executives reported no measurable AI impact on employment.
• Workers expect employment to rise 6% from AI adoption.
• Roughly 69% of firms surveyed actively use AI, with text generation leading.
• Australian firms included in the four-country study.

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High-power drive system for offshore loading equipment

Dalrymple Bay automates ship loading with 1 MW Nidec drives

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-02-12

• Nidec delivered a VFD Motor Control Centre for Dalrymple Bay Terminal’s SL1A Ship Loader near Mackay.
• The system handles up to 1 MW of regenerative energy.
• Design and build took 18 weeks.
• The MCC weighs 8.2 tonnes and measures 8.6 metres wide across six sections.
• Control Techniques M702 VFDs meet Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) requirements.

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Password failures behind Australia’s worst breaches

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-02-10

• Victorian Department of Education experienced unauthorised third-party access in January 2026
• Prosura data breach affected 300,000 customers
• Regis Resources, an Australian gold producer, suffered a system breach in January
• Attackers exploited forgotten passwords, exposed tokens and long-lived API keys

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Vexlum raises $17 million to scale semiconductor laser manufacturing

Leave a Comment / News / 2026-02-09

• Vexlum raises $17 million comprising $10 million equity, $4 million EIC Accelerator grant and $2.7 million Nordea loan.
• Kvanted led the equity round with participation from Tesi and the EIC Fund.
• Vexlum to expand into a new manufacturing facility in Tampere, Finland.
• Target markets include quantum computing, atomic clocks, semiconductor metrology and satellite optical communications.

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