Qld department elevates transformation lead to CIO
Queenland’s Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety has promoted its digital transformation director Erin Earle to lead overall technology delivery. Earle officially…
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EU decisions on Apple, Meta due in coming weeks
An EU decision on whether Apple and Meta have breached landmark tech rules aimed at curbing their market power will be issued in the coming…
Airbus signs provisional connectivity deal with Amazon
Airbus has signed a provisional deal with Amazon to provide connectivity to airlines via the tech giant’s planned Project Kuiper constellation of satellites. The plan…
What Embracing the AI Platform Shift Really Means
Just like the introduction of computers, the internet, and mobile phones before it, AI might have started out as a fun novelty – and we…
NSW Electoral Commission asks for cyber security top-up
NSW Electoral Commission’s IT wishlist for the state budget includes a $12.6 million request for cyber security operating costs, and permission to redirect $8.3 million…
Samsung Q1 profit to drop on weak AI chip sales
Samsung Electronics is expected to forecast a 21 percent drop in the first quarter profit, hurt by sluggish sales of artificial intelligence chips and continued…
Gov scopes architecture for public health surveillance platform
The federal government is developing a blueprint for a new data analytics platform to track and manage diseases across Australia. The Department of Health is…
Apple appealing against UK ‘back door’ order
Apple is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has…
Cbus hit by “unusually high spike in log-in attempts”
Cbus has confirmed its members were also targeted in a widespread attack on superannuation funds, with a “spike in log-in attempts” triggering multi-factor authentication prompts…
Alinta Energy replaces Azure services in its data architecture – Cloud – Software
Alinta Energy has gradually replaced most of the Azure-based services that once powered its data architecture with Databricks, an effort it says has substantially cut…
Microsoft, turning 50, dials up Copilot actions to stay in AI game – Software
Thousands of people swooned in a dark conference hall that felt more like a rock concert when a Microsoft product manager demonstrated the company’s latest…
Meta releases new AI model Llama 4 – Software
Meta Platforms released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Meta said Llama…