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WaveMaker women urge shared support to 'Give to Gain'

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WaveMaker women leaders call for shared support at home and work, saying inclusive cultures help teams 'Give to Gain' and drive innovation.
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Salesforce unveils Agentforce AI tools for healthcare

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Salesforce launches Agentforce for Health, promising AI agents to cut admin burdens and streamline patient access, public health and research.
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Global Day of Unplugging pushes brands to cut noise

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Global Day of Unplugging puts pressure on brands to dial down digital noise and build more trusted, human and community-led connections.
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Structural stress rises for sysadmins in hybrid IT era

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Hybrid IT sprawl is driving “structural stress” for sysadmins as security risks rise, responsibilities grow and control over tools shrinks.
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International Women's Day: The Australian entrepreneur proving you don't have to scale fast to succeed

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Ahead of IWD 2026, Craft Club's Nakisah Williams champions slow, sustainable growth over blitzscaling as a new model of female leadership.
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Style, substance, and strategy: Drawing similarities between pageantry and PR

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From runway to boardroom, Australia's pageant stage doubles as a high-stakes PR lab for purpose-driven personal branding in 2026.
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How female-led healthtech can close the gender gap

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Women bear the brunt of chronic illness, but a new wave of female-led health tech aims to tackle root causes and close the gender health gap.
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Why more women should choose to be sigma women

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Sigma women reject shrinking and approval-seeking, choosing self-led clarity, quiet power and boundaries at every stage of life.
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AI in love lives: help for some, a deal-breaker for others

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AI is entering couples' counselling, with one in five partners keen for its help and nearly one in six ready to walk away over its use.
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Stop framing deepfake harassment of women as a social problem - It's a cybersecurity problem

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Non-consensual deepfake abuse of women is not just online harassment but cybercrime, demanding full threat intelligence and security action.
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Benefits transparency is tech's retention opportunity for International Women's Day

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International Women's Day should be tech's annual audit of real benefits and transparency, not a branding exercise of panels and posts.
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Indonesia launches SHECURE Digital to protect women online

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Indonesia has launched SHECURE Digital, a national programme to shield women and girls from online abuse, extortion and data exploitation.
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Beyond technology: How leadership drives contact centre performance

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Amid rising AI and automation in contact centres, new research finds leadership, empathy and agent support now outmuscle technology alone.
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Advertising standards tightened to protect Kiwi consumers

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New Zealand tightens health advertising code, curbing influencer endorsements, tougher evidence rules and stricter protections for vulnerable people.
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Snap launches digital safety course for teenagers, parents

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Snap unveils a 45-minute interactive digital safety course for teens and parents, plus expanded Snapchat arrival alerts to boost protection.
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Safer Internet Day spotlights AI, trust & child safety

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Safer Internet Day highlights how AI is transforming online trust, child protection and digital commerce, amid calls for stricter safeguards.
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Australians doubt under-16 social media ban boosts safety

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Most Australians doubt the under-16 social media ban has made the internet safer, with many expecting teens to bypass the new rules.
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Google launches age checks for young users in Singapore

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Google has begun using AI-powered age checks in Singapore, tightening default safety settings for under-18s on Search, Play, Maps and YouTube.
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OpenAI rolls out age checks ahead of ChatGPT adult mode

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OpenAI deploys behavioural age prediction for ChatGPT as it prepares a 2026 adult mode, raising fresh privacy and child-safety concerns.
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Older Asia-Pacific founders chase unicorn valuations

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Asia-Pacific startup founders are growing older but no less ambitious, with most over 45 and four in ten still chasing unicorn valuations.