Shocked AWS customers receive astronomical bill estimates
Customers of Amazon Web Services received a rude shock ahead of the weekend as they received alerts showing massive bills from the cloud giant, some…
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Vic Labor moots workplace AI and biometrics surveillance curbs
Victoria’s Labor government is looking to restrict the use of AI and biometrics for workplace surveillance under proposed laws. Premier Jacinta Allan launched the plan…
Feds move to regulate automated decision-making
The federal government will move to tighten regulation of automated decision making (ADM) as a result of a new set of safety priorities for adoption…
Flight Centre to embrace AI agents, ecommerce consolidation
Flight Centre Travel Group has appointed Christopher Steiner as its chief AI officer and Rob New as its head of digital commerce. The two executives…
Telstra broke its network with undocumented time fix
Telstra has revealed twin causes behind its nationwide mobile outage earlier this month, comprising an unrecorded configuration change on a Symmetricom SSU-2000 Network Time Synchronisation System…
Notorious 1990s hacker held over €100 million-a-month fraud ring
Dutch police say they have taken into custody a 46-year-old man with dual Israeli and Polish nationality, for his role in a large-scale investment fraud…
Colonial First State names data and AI group executive
Colonial First State has appointed Sid Baidwan as its group executive of data and AI. Image credit: LinkedIn. The Australian superannuation and investment fund said…
Alinta Energy spins up AI system for executive insights
Alinta Energy has built a multi-agent system that connects executives to insights, and the underlying source data, to assist their thinking and decision-making. The gentailer…
Qantas escapes formal OAIC probe over 2025 vishing breach
Qantas will not face an investigation by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) for the June 2025 data breach that saw millions of…
Russian spies hunt for routers running legacy protocols with default credentials
A coalition of 19 national cyber security agencies has issued a joint warning that Russian state-sponsored threat actors are systematically scanning the Internet for exposed…
Medical clinic chain Partnered Health hit by data theft
Adelaide-headquartered Partnered Health has disclosed it suffered a data breach on June 23, with the chain of general practitioner clinics informing patients and authorities. The…
Pentagon pauses cyber audit rule blamed for supplier exits
The Pentagon is suspending the next phase of a cyber security certification program for defence contractors, backing off a compliance requirement that industry executives had…