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The Wollemi pine was known only from ancient fossils until a park ranger rappelled into a canyon outside Sydney in 1994 and found a...

Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a state secret, withheld from maps and guarded by a small circle of Australian rangers who reach the site by helicopter, in sterilised boots, on...

ShinyHunters breached more than 100 organisations through a PeopleSoft flaw before Oracle issued an advisory, and the reason two-thirds were universities says everything about...

The story of the latest ShinyHunters campaign is not really about a bug in Oracle PeopleSoft. It is about what happens when a single piece of enterprise software runs the back office of thousands of institutions, and a single...

Accountants warn the CGT changes are a $500 million annual shitshow

The federal Budget’s proposed changes to capital gains tax (CGT) are rushed and deeply flawed, peak accounting body CPA Australia has warned, and will cost billions to implement. The changes, announced last month under the guise of improving housing...

Why the Lucky Country has a US problem 

The United States remains the most compelling growth destination for Australian technology and innovation  companies, but it is also one of the most unforgiving. For founders and executives who have built strong businesses  at home, the leap across the...

Cicada’s Liza Noonan on R&D’s new valley of death & the ‘missing middle’ for deep tech

R&D investment and commercialisation can’t be treated as separate issues, says Liza Noonan, CEO of Sydney deep-tech hub Cicada Innovations, on episode 61 of Startup 360. Liza unpacks deep tech — think quantum computing, medical devices and advanced manufacturing —...

What about customers? Why AI productivity is the means, not mission

Bain went looking at the companies that actually measure their AI savings and found four in ten had clawed back 10% or less. The tools worked. The money never showed up. This is the sound of the bill arriving, and...

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable public AI model, and will hand your conversation to a weaker model the moment it detects a...

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models’ enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities....

KAST Garners Capital to Help Bolster AI Adoption Throughout Kootenays Region

In 2022, Techcouver reminded folks that even though Vancouver is the obvious and dominant hub for technology and innovation in British Columbia, other regions do nonetheless contribute to the scene. We pointed back then to the Okanagan Valley as one...

BC Tech Reveals Finalists for 2026 Technology Impact Awards

BC Tech has announced the finalists for its 2026 Technology Impact Awards, spotlighting dozens of companies helping shape the future of British Columbia’s innovation economy. This year’s TIAs feature 48 finalists across 11 award categories, recognizing companies at every stage...

The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, melting its adult body back into an immature polyp...

Off the coast of Rapallo, in the warm shallows of the Mediterranean, a jellyfish no bigger than the nail on your little finger is doing something no other animal can reliably do. When Turritopsis dohrnii is wounded, starved, or...
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Escrow plans for existing investors sank Firmus float: report

The Australian reports that a shareholder split over selling restrictions contributed to raise failing to attract enough support, despite...
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