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GUEST RESEARCH: Americans spent over US$200 billion online during the 2022 festive shopping season, making 2023 a record year for online retailers. This year, 97% of people recently surveyed said they plan to shop online. As festive season related revenues grow, so does the temptation for criminals to take a part of the action for themselves – over US$300 million were lost to scammers in 2022 according to the FBI’s IC3 report for 2022.

GUEST RESEARCH: Once used primarily by search engines, bots now have a variety of uses — both good and bad. The good bots are primarily search engine crawlers and other similar bots used for aggregating or monitoring content. These bots obey the website owner’s rules as specified in the robots.txt file, publish methods of validating them as who they say they are, and work in a way to avoid overwhelming the websites and applications they visit.

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.

British telco provider BT has teamed up with lexicographer and dictionary expert Susie Dent to create a digital dictionary to help older and digitally excluded people to understand better online jargon.

Adobe Photoshop on the web will soon work on Google Chromebook Plus devices, while Adobe Express will run on all Chromebooks, including Chromebook Plus devices.

COMPANY NEWS: Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting credentials, privileged access, secrets and remote connections, today announces a brand new, modern User Interface (UI) for the Keeper Password Manager app for Android.

Australian-born, globally-used, employee engagement platform Culture Amp has set its mission as amplifying the experience and impact of more than 100m workers around the world. It’s taken on Google’s Vertex AI to help HR professionals get to the crux of what workers are saying - and says it chose Google for its ethical commitment.

US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday.

In what can only be described as poor-quality spin, the US Government"s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has made much of the fact that former hacker Mudge will be joining the agency in a part-time capacity. [The word hacker is used here in its original meaning: someone who plays around with code.]

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has approved an industry code that will see the regulation of search engines to ensure protection against the risk of generative AI.

COMPANY NEWS:  Mantel Group’s premier Google Cloud solutions brand, Kasna, has taken out top honours, receiving two 2023 Google Cloud Partner Awards -  Google Cloud Sales Partner of the Year for Australia and Google Cloud Services Partner of the Year for New Zealand.

Poly has introduced new solutions designed to work with Google Cloud and Google ChromeOS, further enabling organisations to improve hybrid work experiences.

The Australian smartphone market fell 10.1% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2023, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that 1.26 million units were shipped during the three-month period.

COMPANY NEWS: Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that created New-Scale SIEM for advancing security operations, and a 2023 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Security - Analytics, today announced it is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud in the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in its cloud-native New-Scale Siemproduct portfolio.

For the tech industry, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been evolving for some time. But with the launch of ChatGPT and Google Bard, it’s clear that generative AI is having a ‘smartphone moment,’ where a new, transformative technology fundamentally changes how we live, work and play. Suddenly, the everyday person can appreciate the power of this technology and how it might change many aspects of our lives.

GUEST RESEARCH: On 8 August 2023, Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers observed the Smoke Loader botnet dropping a custom Wi-Fi scanning executable to infected systems.

A Canadian minister has repeated calls for Meta to end a ban on news content from the country's outlets being hosted on Facebook and Instagram as wildfires devastate the country and people flee.

A number of factors appear to have influenced Chinese smartphone maker Oppo's decision as to which model of its mid-range Reno line it would launch in Australia this year. Consumers are pressed for funds, and additionally Oppo is not top dog in this market, but only the third in the queue.

Two more vulnerabilities in CPUs have surfaced this week, one in Intel hardware and the other in AMD's offerings.