Category: ITnews

Allianz Life says majority of US customers' data stolen in hack
05
Dec
2025

WA makes its chief data officer permanent

The Western Australian government has made Natalia Kacperek its permanent chief data officer after two years acting in the role….

NEXTDC to build AI campus and GPU
05
Dec
2025

NEXTDC to build AI campus and GPU “supercluster” in Sydney

NEXTDC will build an AI campus and GPU “supercluster” in Western Sydney that will power OpenAI’s services in Australia. From…

Meta to block Facebook and Instagram for Australian teens by December 10
05
Dec
2025

Meta to cut up to 30 percent of metaverse budget

Meta is expected to make budget cuts of up to 30 percent for its metaverse initiative, Bloomberg News reported, citing…

Seqwater seeking asset planning tool to overcome
05
Dec
2025

Seqwater seeking asset planning tool to overcome “functional limitations”

Seqwater, South East Queensland’s water management authority, is looking for dedicated software to replace its spreadsheet-based asset and investment planning tools. …

Cochlear plugs AI into its global contact centre operations
04
Dec
2025

Cochlear plugs AI into its global contact centre operations

Cochlear is starting to make use of the AI capabilities in its Amazon Connect contact centre platform, automating its evaluation…

Telstra, Optus, TPG build new list of devices causing trouble for triple zero
04
Dec
2025

Samsung tried to fix triple zero problem with mobiles nearly five years ago

The mystery over why owners of a group of 71 Samsung mobile phone models couldn’t place emergency calls properly has…

Australia says the world will follow its social media ban
04
Dec
2025

Australia says the world will follow its social media ban

Australia’s internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push…

South32 upgrades its onboarding with SuccessFactors
04
Dec
2025

South32 upgrades its onboarding with SuccessFactors

South32 is continuing to work through a HR transformation, having recently upgraded the SAP technology that enables it to onboard…

India revokes order to preload cyber security app on smartphones
04
Dec
2025

India revokes order to preload cyber security app on smartphones

India’s government scrapped an order to smartphone makers to preload a state-run cyber security app on all new devices after…

ASX outage caused by security software upgrade
03
Dec
2025

ASX outage caused by security software upgrade

The Australian Securities Exchange’s technology turnaround plan, touted by the firm’s chair as being too important to fail, is facing…

CBA wants agents to initiate application modernisation
03
Dec
2025

CBA wants agents to initiate application modernisation

CBA is exploring whether AI agents can start modernising applications without human prompting and keep documentation of its cloud-based applications…

Triple Zero Custodian might force telcos to share info
03
Dec
2025

Optus network server failure downs NBN services in Queensland

A network server failure is behind a lengthy outage impacting around 95,000 Optus NBN customers in Brisbane and parts of…