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Peripherals maker, Logitech, is arguing that the familiar post-3pm energy slump plaguing office workers may have less to do with heavy lunches and more to do with the air inside meeting rooms and shared spaces. The company's ANZ business division contends that as teams sit together in enclosed rooms throughout the working day, carbon dioxide levels accumulate to well beyond 1,000 ppm by mid-afternoon - a threshold cited by studies as negatively affecting cognitive performance.

Shopify has launched Canvas, a visual workspace that lets merchants design and customise their online stores by working alongside its AI agent, Sidekick, using natural language prompts rather than code or complex settings panels. Canvas lays out every page of a merchant's online store on a single surface. Merchants can pan across the full storefront to see how it holds together, then zoom into individual elements to make changes.

San Francisco-based Use.ai has hit one million monthly active users less than a year after launch, pitching itself as a single workspace where consumers can access more than 10 AI models without juggling separate subscriptions or losing their conversation history. The platform gives users access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek - including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek - through one interface.

Autonomous finance startup Maximor has changed its name to Hyphenate, a move the company says reflects its expansion from a single-function tool into a platform that spans the office of the CFO. The rebrand follows what the company describes as 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months, a period in which its customer base has broadened from solving individual finance problems to consolidating multiple workflows onto one platform.

Cybersecurity company, Huntress, has published what it calls the " Tragic Quadrant " - a framework that maps the attack techniques doing the most damage to businesses based on how frequently they appear and how close they sit to causing a serious disruption. The report draws on telemetry from more than five million endpoints and 15 million identities across nearly 300,000 organisations that Huntress protects.

Lenovo has teamed with Nvidia on a quick-start program that promises order-to-ship times of as little as 15 business days for pre-validated AI infrastructure. The company wants to cut the lead times and integration hurdles that slow enterprise AI rollouts. Dubbed Lenovo AI Express, the program packages three right-sized configurations built on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and Nvidia GPUs. Customers can add enterprise AI software and a set of deployment and support services.

Enterprise Java vendor, Azul, has updated its Azul Prime runtime so that newly launched Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) can draw on code already optimised by the rest of their fleet. It claims the change makes application warm-up two to five times faster than standard OpenJDK. The capability comes from Cloud Native Compiler, a feature of the Optimizer Hub in Azul Prime.

TeamViewer has disclosed five security vulnerabilities in its Full Client and Host software, the two highest rated at 8.8 and 7.8 on the CVSS 3.1 scale. The flaws, addressed in security bulletin TV-2026-1010, affect TeamViewer Remote, TeamViewer Tensor and TeamViewer ONE across Windows, Linux and macOS. All five were resolved in version 15.82 of the TeamViewer Clients, with matching fixes pushed to supported maintenance and legacy branches.

Surprisingly Useful AI Article Enhancements There are now over 100x more tech PR agencies than technology journalists in Australia and most have similar pitches to land your account. In the first of a series of PR company reviews, we're looking at Lumitas, the PR and marketing agency that's changed names more than Kanye West. It's also been known as SBM Communications, Ovato Communications and Spectrum Communications in recent years.

PAX Aus has confirmed a further wave of exhibitors for its 2026 Melbourne event, with Nintendo, World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment and Bandai Namco Entertainment joining the Expo Hall floor. The additions bring a string of playable game debuts to the show, including the first Australian hands-on opportunity with Nintendo Switch Sports Resort ahead of its 22 October retail release.