Category: ITnews

Optus presses government to act on streaming traffic costs
21
Sep
2023

Optus presses government to act on streaming traffic costs – Telco/ISP

Optus is now pressing its case for content streamers to financially contribute to its network costs through a parliamentary inquiry…

QLD Police builds cloud-enabled search and prediction tools
21
Sep
2023

QLD Police builds cloud-enabled search and prediction tools – Cloud – Software – Storage

Queensland Police Service (QPS) has credited cloud adoption for enabling it to procure capabilities like facial recognition technology, crime prediction…

Microsoft announces unified AI assistant, new Surface devices
21
Sep
2023

Microsoft announces unified AI assistant, new Surface devices – Hardware

Microsoft has announced a “unified” artificial intelligence (AI) for its Windows 11 platform and four new Surface devices, upping the…

ANZ finds its feet to hit cloud migration milestones quicker
21
Sep
2023

ANZ Institutional folds generative AI into intelligence-gathering tool – Finance – Cloud – Software

ANZ Institutional has incorporated generative AI into a business intelligence tool used by frontline bankers to stay abreast of market…

Medibank incurred $7.5 million in direct tech costs after cyber attack
21
Sep
2023

Medibank incurred $7.5 million in direct tech costs after cyber attack – Security

Medibank has revealed a breakdown of its $46.4 million data breach expense amount incurred after a high-profile cyber incident last…

ASIC sues crypto exchange
21
Sep
2023

ASIC sues crypto exchange – Finance

Australia’s corporate regulator has initiated civil proceedings against Bit Trade, provider of the Kraken crypto exchange to Australian customers, for…

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to set up own IT
21
Sep
2023

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to set up own IT – Strategy

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is set to move off a shared services IT…

ANZ reworks internal developer platform used for ANZ Plus
21
Sep
2023

ANZ reworks internal developer platform used for ANZ Plus – Finance – Cloud – Software

ANZ is rebuilding the internal developer platform used by its software engineers to code and deliver new features for its…

MGM Resorts shuts down some computer systems
20
Sep
2023

MGM hotels, casinos ‘operating normally’ after cyber attack – Security

MGM Resorts said all its hotels and casinos were “operating normally” after it shut down some of its computer systems…

Amazon plays catch-up with Alexa generative AI
20
Sep
2023

Amazon plays catch-up with Alexa generative AI – Software – Hardware

Amazon.com has unveiled a slate of new and refreshed devices and updated its Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence…

Token error left Microsoft data exposed
20
Sep
2023

Token error left Microsoft data exposed – Security

Microsoft has disclosed that an overly permissive shared access signature (SAS) token exposed company data on GitHub from July 2020…

Ventia appoints new cyber security GM
20
Sep
2023

Ventia appoints new cyber security GM – Training & Development – Security

Ventia has put Nine’s former group director of cyber security Celeste Lowe in charge of its cyber strategy. Lowe left her…