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Annual wage growth in Australia ticked up in July, but the effect of higher award and minimum wages has so far been more contained than anticipated, according to the latest data from the Commonwealth Bank. The CBA Wage and Labour Insights series showed annual wage growth rose to 3.2 per cent, up from 3.1 per cent in June, where it had sat for seven consecutive months. Quarterly wage growth held steady at 0.8 per cent over the three months to July.

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Dating app, Bumble, has rolled out a global change to its conversation model, allowing anyone in a match to send the first message - a shift away from the platform's founding design that required women to initiate contact. The change is a structural adjustment to the core experience that distinguished Bumble from competitors when it launched in 2014.

The Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified three previously undocumented malware families being used in an active cyber espionage campaign targeting telecommunications providers, government agencies, defence organisations and critical infrastructure across Afghanistan and South Asia.

Mohamed Salah remains one of the most influential names in modern football, and any discussion about his future immediately attracts attention from supporters, clubs, and betting audiences. After establishing himself among the elite attackers in European football, speculation about where he could play next creates a natural debate around potential destinations, sporting ambitions, and the financial factors that could influence a future transfer.

Telstra has reported a 3 per cent rise in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation after leases (EBITDAaL) to $8.2 billion for the 2026 financial year, while flagging increased costs on its Aura Network infrastructure buildout and acknowledging lessons to be drawn from a network outage in July. The telco's net profit after tax rose 2.7 per cent to $2.4 billion, with earnings per share up 5.3 per cent to 19.9 cents.

Verifone is bringing payment terminals with built-in facial recognition and palm-vein biometric capabilities to the Australian market, allowing enrolled consumers to verify their identity at the checkout by presenting their face or palm instead of tapping a card or phone.

Executive security leaders are significantly more concerned than their frontline teams about how AI vendors handle sensitive data, according to new research from Rapid7 and Omdia that suggests the conversation around AI in cybersecurity has shifted from whether to adopt it to how to govern it.

Independent modelling from the consultancy, Avant Group, has found that Quantum Australia's national programs generated more than $83 million in economic value as a net present value over five years. The figure spans grant and industry funding mobilised, private investment leveraged and commercial contracts signed through Quantum Australia programs over two years. It also represents more than six times the public investment in economy-wide activity.