HSBC appoints first chief AI officer
HSBC has appointed David Rice as its first chief AI officer, the British bank said, as it seeks to cut costs and improve performance by…
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Australia’s critical infrastructure security laws “toothless”
An independent review of an Australian law for securing critical infrastructure sectors has found it “toothless”, with penalties viewed as a “cost of doing business”…
ACMA to tap CTO-as-a-service to help architect core modernisation
The Australian Communication and Media Authority’s (ACMA’s) next chief technology officer will be brought in on an as-needed basis to provide input to a large-scale…
Home Affairs extends non-mainframe IBM deal early for $35m
Home Affairs has added two-and-a-half years to a hardware and software maintenance and support arrangement with IBM covering its non-mainframe environments, bringing the contract up…
TeamPCP hackers deface Aqua Security’s internal GitHub
Aqua Security is scrambling to recover from supply chain attacks that first compromised the vendor’s Trivy vulnerability scanner, and which have now seen threat actor…
US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers
The US Federal Communications Commission said it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers, the latest crackdown on Chinese-made electronic gear over…
Phillip Britt exits Aussie Broadband board
Phillip Britt has resigned from Aussie Broadband’s board, bringing to an end his formal influence over the company he co-founded and an era that lasted…
Rodd & Gunn eyes headless ecommerce
High-end lifestyle brand Rodd & Gunn is exploring a shift to a headless ecommerce platform strategy to improve its speed to market as its operations…
“CanisterWorm” supply chain malware attacks npm
A threat actor who stole credentials from a legitimate node package manager (npm) publisher has spread a persistent, worm-like malware across dozens of packages, security…
Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system
Palantir’s Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, US deputy secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg said in a letter to Pentagon…
Yarra Valley Water betting on AI to predict asset failures
Yarra Valley Water is planning to use generative AI to predict failures across its water supply infrastructure in a bid to drive cost out of…
ATO to upgrade its IBM mainframe again in quiet $104.8m deal
The Australian Taxation Office is set to upgrade to IBM’s z17 mainframe under a $104.8 million expansion of an existing mainframe modernisation program it signed…