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Sofiah Nichole Salivio
News Editor
Sofiah Nichole has balanced a dual passion for technical precision and the written word since 2017. Before diving into the world of Civil Engineering, she spent years navigating school press conferences and contributing to university publications, honing her skills as a versatile staff writer. Outside of her engineering labs, you can find her advocating for student voices and looking for the next great story to tell. She believes that whether you are building a bridge or a news report, the foundation must be rock solid.

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WoW Midnight launches Roofus charity pet for housing aid

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Blizzard launches WoW Midnight's Season 1 with a AUD $32 Roofus charity pet pack, donating proceeds to Habitat for Humanity housing aid.
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DHL opens Erskine Park hub for tech, auto reverse logistics

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DHL opens a 21,000m² Erskine Park warehouse to boost tech and auto spare parts distribution, returns handling and energy-efficient logistics.
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Island unveils SASE to cut proxy backhaul for AI era

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Island has rolled out a SASE design that shifts inspection to the endpoint, cutting proxy backhaul and avoiding default SSL/TLS break-and-inspect.
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Spacelift unveils AI suite to speed cloud infrastructure

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Spacelift launches Intelligence AI suite to bring natural language provisioning and troubleshooting to cloud infrastructure teams.
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Spacelift unveils AI layer to speed cloud infrastructure

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Spacelift debuts an AI-powered natural-language layer to accelerate cloud infrastructure work while preserving existing IaC and GitOps flows.
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AI surge drives record secrets sprawl across GitHub

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AI-fuelled coding drives record 29 million hardcoded secrets on GitHub in 2025, with leaks from AI tools and services surging sharply.
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Secure Code Warrior unveils AI code governance tool

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Secure Code Warrior launches SCW Trust Agent: AI, giving security teams commit-level visibility and control over AI-influenced code.
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Foxtel & PubMatic debut programmatic live sport ads

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Foxtel Media and PubMatic unveil a managed programmatic tool to sell time-targeted ad slots around live NRL and AFL streams on Kayo.
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Corelight unveils AI triage to speed transparent SOC ops

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Corelight launches Agentic Triage, an AI-driven workflow to speed SOC investigations while exposing every step for transparent review.
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SeenThis & Vudoo team up to power shoppable video ads

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SeenThis and Vudoo join forces to deliver shoppable video ads on the open web, linking viewer attention directly to on-screen purchases.
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Open Point unveils unified engagement & stakeholder hub

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Open Point has merged Social Point and Consultation Manager into a single platform to unify community engagement and stakeholder oversight.
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Pacvue adds Reddit Ads to unify retail media planning

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Pacvue to plug Reddit Ads into its commerce system, uniting community insights with retail media planning in one performance workflow.
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AI agent from Tenzai ranks in top 1% of global CTFs

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Tenzai's autonomous AI agent has placed in the top 1% of major global hacking CTF contests, beating more than 125,000 human rivals.
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Barrows & QSIC sync in‑store audio with digital video

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Barrows Connected Store and QSIC partner to sync in‑store video and audio, promising data‑driven, unified retail media and measurement.
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FIRST announces 2026 cyber security conference trio

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FIRST to host three cybersecurity conferences in 2026 as it predicts annual CVE disclosures will surpass 50,000 for the first time.
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Van Weelde Shipping picks Unit4 ERPx for modernisation

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Rotterdam's Van Weelde Shipping selects Unit4 ERPx to modernise finance and operations while consolidating its enterprise systems.
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XM Cyber adds AI exposure mapping across hybrid cloud

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cloud security
XM Cyber rolls out AI exposure mapping to track shadow AI, cloud models and MCP servers across hybrid estates in a single attack graph.
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Snowflake unveils Project SnowWork for autonomous AI work

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data analytics
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digital transformation
Snowflake debuts Project SnowWork, an autonomous AI desktop agent that turns governed data insights into end-to-end enterprise actions.
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AI, cost pressures reshape observability in new survey

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AI ambitions and cost pressures are reshaping observability, as teams centralise tools, embrace SaaS and double down on open standards.
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Abnormal AI rolls out Attune 1.0 to fight AI cyberattacks

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Abnormal AI launches Attune 1.0, a behavioural model that spots AI-crafted cyberattacks by learning normal workplace communication patterns.