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Microsoft's email system has stopped working for millions of people worldwide this morning, with Australian enterprise users waking to find Exchange Online won't load and Teams, SharePoint and Copilot potentially down as well.
ChatGPT is getting business profiles, with OpenAI letting companies verify and update details about their products and services in a new Business Hub that closely resembles what Google already offers.
Spotify's AI DJ is getting an Australian accent, one of seven English voices with their own personalities now rolling out to Premium listeners.
Airbnb hosts can only ask guests for simple check-out chores from 20 November, such as putting dishes in the sink instead of washing them or gathering towels instead of doing the laundry.
61% of high-achieving students now believe AI is eroding their competitive edge at school, while nearly two-thirds say their peers are using chatbots to complete homework or take-home assessments.
Everything that happened in the last week, including Wegovy's weight-loss pill, the US$6.3 billion Binance heist, and hackers going after French blood banks.
Earlier this week we saw hackers take over supermarket fridges in Europe. It turns out the hackers tried to push the plasma freezers at three French blood banks from -30°C to as high as 110°C.
1 in 10 Australians now say their life will be worse in the next few years - triple the number who felt that pessimistic when the survey began in 2006.
The TGA has approved Wegovy as a daily pill, the first GLP-1 weight-loss drug cleared in tablet form in Australia, and more than 10,000 Australians have already signed up to an online waiting list for it.
Hackers took control of supermarket fridges and freezers across Europe overnight, cranking some up to 50 degrees and forcing stores in Sweden, Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg to throw out their stock.
Hackers stole US$6.3 billion from Binance in what analysts are calling the biggest crypto hack ever, with US blockchain firms pinning the attack on North Korea.
Everything that happened in the last week, including record mortgage stress, 3.6 million households going hungry, and Aldi scrapping its bag checks.
