Preschool-aged children have experienced a blow to their social and practical skills because of spending significant portions of their lives in lockdown. [ + ]

Australians have reported a record $211 million in losses to scams this year, an increase of nearly 90% from last year. [ + ]

As the NSW Government continues to relax COVID restrictions, children whose parents are fully vaccinated can now form a friends bubble. [ + ]

The B-cycle scheme hopes to attract new industry participants including household battery importers, product manufacturers, recyclers and retailers. [ + ]

Data centre provider BDx, the National University of Singapore Engineering and Sembcorp Marine will explore the feasibility of floating data centres. [ + ]

Telstra Purple will provide communications services and a 5G virtual spectator experience for the Airspeeder EXA series of flying car races. [ + ]

A new survey from WP Engine has revealed that 72% of Aussie consumers believe businesses still have a long way to go to create seamless online experiences. [ + ]

Industrial IoT vendor Advantech has announced a partnerhip with ANSCENTER. [ + ]

Trend Micro Incorporated has launched a Cloud One regional data centre in Sydney, to allow Australian customers and partners to keep data on-shore. [ + ]

The manufacturing sector is failing to limit employees' access to sensitive company data, with employees on average able to access one in five files. [ + ]

Sophos' State of Ransomware in Financial Services report found that 35% of financial services organisations faced a ransomware attack in 2020. [ + ]

Pandemic-wary Australians switched on entertainment subscriptions at a rapid pace in the first half of 2021, despite experiencing decreased lockdown restrictions. [ + ]

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, KnowBe4 and OneLogin will attempt to set an Official Guinness World Record for the most views of a cybersecurity lesson on YouTube. [ + ]

Frost & Sullivan expects the global colocation services market to grow at a 12.4% CAGR to reach over $225bn by 2030. [ + ]

IT services company Orro has acquired managed security services provider eSecure to bolster its cybersecurity services offerings. [ + ]