Saturday, November 14, 2026

Business

Why the Nvidia CEO’s departure is about governance failures and not sex

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO on 11 November, days after he admitted an affair with a woman US intelligence is said to suspect is a spy. Reporting since then says there was more. The New York Times reported...

Microsoft struggles to revive its platforms after a global BSoD-style outage

Microsoft says attempts to restart affected infrastructure were “not taking as expected” despite initial “positive results”, following a mass global outage affecting multiple Microsoft 365 services across the globe. In the early hours of Friday morning, Australian time, Microsoft 365...

From Strutta to Hootsuite to Clio: Three Eras of Vancouver Tech

Michelle Dunlea’s career has followed the evolution of Vancouver’s technology scene, from scrappy startups to ambitious scaleups to globally competitive unicorns. When Michelle Dunlea joined Vancouver startup Strutta, she was hired as a project manager. Before long, she found herself...

The wild and mesmerising Theranos doco You Can See Everything, pitches Elizabeth Holmes against its maker

This piece contains spoilers. “It just ends up punishing those of us who can’t perform it very well.” Fielder’s absurdist comedy/documentary, involving elaborately staged scenarios and ethically questionable social experiments, exposes how little we can know about where participants’ performances begin...

‘It’s easy to get things done’: Inside the Wollongong hub backing the next generation of founders

Ideas are everywhere. Sustainable businesses are much harder to build. Between finding product-market fit, hiring the right people, raising capital and simply working out what to do next, the distance between an idea and a viable company can be enormous. For...

Airwallex crypto sceptic Jack Zhang’s new blockchain side hustle just raised a $67 million Series A

Alta, previously known as Metal, launched in June, is based in Melbourne and San Francisco, and help banks settle payments 24/7 using blockchain. Today it announced a US$47.5 million ($67m) Series A round at an undisclosed valuation, led by...

Kiwi agtech Aimer Farming raises $2.44 million to solve the grass-to-beef ratio problem

New Zealand agritech startup, Aimer Farming, which helps farmers calculate how much grass they have to feed beef cattle, has raised NZ$3 million (A$2.44m). The round was co-led by Cultivate Ventures, the Erbacher Food Family, Pacific Channel and Agnition, with...

Airbnb’s finally dealing with the most annoying part about anal-retentive hosts. Here’s what you need to know

Facing complaints from travellers, Airbnb is changing the rules to limit what hosts can ask guests to do before checkout. The new policy starts on November 20. From November 20, hosts will need to re-check and revise their checkout chores...

Australia will get AI safety standards as law, with a watchdog to enforce them

The announcement by prime minister Anthony Albanese comes as the government also released the recommendations of the rapid review it commissioned after an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal in June, then waited a number...

Australia will get AI safety standards as law, with a watchdog to enforce them

The announcement by prime minister Anthony Albanese comes as the government also released the recommendations of the rapid review it commissioned after an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal in June, then waited a number...
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How Hegseth escaped an impeachment effort – for now

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth escaped an impeachment vote in the House, but may face another effort when Democrats take...
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