US excludes smartphones, computers from reciprocal tariffs
The US has granted tariff exclusions for smartphones, computers and other electronics imports supplied largely by China, sparing them from much of President Donald Trump’s…
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Cessnock City Council creates CIO role
Cessnock City Council has created a chief information officer role to lead the council’s information technology strategy. In the job posting, the NSW Hunter Valley…
Prospa de-risks loan book by mapping borrower relationships
Prospa, an online lender for small business, has used hackathons and graph database technology to map out complex relationships between directors and entities applying for…
Focus is the key for successful endpoint protection
Compromised passwords, unpatched vulnerabilities and unauthorised applications can all lead to an endpoint being exploited by threat actors. Peter Soulsby, the Head of Cybersecurity at…
Opportunity Meets Adventure in Hong Kong
Initiatives like the Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) by the Hong Kong Government is making it easier for international talent to move to Asia, with…
Aussie Broadband tables a detailed new technology strategy
Aussie Broadband has outlined a six-pillar technology strategy aimed at making IT more trusted and able to underpin an ambitious growth plan over the next…
Orica re-platforms its SAP from Azure to Google Cloud
ASX-listed Orica has changed the cloud ecosystem it uses to host its SAP environment from Azure to Google Cloud, chasing performance improvements, cost savings and…
Victoria University completes year-long search for CISO
Victoria University (VU) has hired former PEXA information security management head Tara Dharnikota to fill its long-vacant chief information security officer role. The university has been looking…
Amazon CEO sets out AI investment mission
Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy has justified the company’s billions of dollars in outlays for artificial intelligence development, saying the investment was necessary to remain…
Western Sydney University SSO system breached
Western Sydney University has experienced its fourth cyber incident in two years, this time affecting the data of 10,000 current and former students after an…
7-Eleven Australia tech leader moves on
7-Eleven Australia’s general manager of strategy and technology, Stephen Eyears, has left the organisation, coinciding with a change to its “support office structure”. Stephen Eyears…
Sunshine Coast Council trains AI kiosk for in-person help
Sunshine Coast Council is tapping into an AI-enabled kiosk to handle in-person queries at its municipal centre via an Azure OpenAI service-powered avatar named ‘Laura’.…