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The core engineering problem Quantum Lock is solving is deceptively specific: how do you verify the internal state of a device you cannot physically reach? Software-based approaches rely on heuristics, pattern matching and code signatures.

Reddit's share price, down 11 per cent in a week, made the zero-click era impossible to ignore. Two in three Google searches now end without a visit to the open web.

Telstra set its full-year cash dividend at 21 cents per share, up 10.5 per cent on the prior year, with a final payment of 10.5 cents on 13 August. The company also announced a new on-market buyback of up to $1 billion, following the $1.25 billion programme it completed in June.

Google is shipping a wearable feature that attempts to track insulin resistance without a needle, a lab requisition or a finger-prick device.

The Federal Court has ruled X cannot sit under two online safety regimes at once, exposing a structural flaw in how the regulator chose to police the platform.

Australia's property settlement system was designed around competition. Multiple Electronic Lodgment Network Operators were meant to process transactions, keeping fees down and service quality up. That architecture has now effectively collapsed.

For 41 minutes, Google told anyone who searched Sam Altman's name that he was dead. The Knowledge Panel republished a vandalised Wikipedia edit automatically, and no one at Google touched it.

On completion day in England and Wales, a homebuyer's money moves through a chain of sequential bank transfers before title finally changes hands.