TPG Telecom recovers after data centre outage – Networking – Telco/ISP
TPG Telecom has attributed a widespread outage on Monday evening to a failure of mains and backup power at one of its data centres. The…
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Salesforce plans US$500m in AI-related investments in Saudi Arabia – Cloud
Salesforce plans to invest US$500 million ($796.5 million) in Saudi Arabia related to artificial intelligence, as countries compete to secure investments in the nascent but…
WA Education boosts cyber function – Training & Development – Security
Western Australia’s Department of Education has increased its IT security resourcing with the appointment of Prashant Singh as manager of cyber security. Reporting to CIO…
Treasury M365 Copilot review estimates 13-minute efficiency gain needed to justify licence cost – Software
Treasury has estimated that a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence for a “mid-level” government staffer could pay for itself if it freed up 13 minutes of…
Australia Post HR transformation leader exits – HR
Australia Post’s head of people services Laura Cheail has left after a decade at the service in a variety of transformation and digital-oriented roles. Cheail…
Bunnings crunches 10 years of weather data for retail localisation – Cloud – Software
Bunnings has analysed a decade’s worth of Australian weather data to help personalise its customer marketing and in-store merchandising efforts. The DIY and hardware chain…
Sony offers service extension after global PlayStation Plus outage – Networking
Sony said that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a global outage disrupted the PlayStation Network (PSN)…
Meta preparing for company-wide layoffs – Training & Development
Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs this week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine learning engineers, it told…
NAB backs Harness in developer productivity drive – Cloud – Software
NAB has lifted the covers on its adoption of Harness CI/CD and GitOps tooling, using it to “remove developer toil” and further standardise the steps…
Most Australian states and territories ban DeepSeek – Software
Queensland, Western Australia, the ACT and the Northern Territory have become the latest state and territory governments to ban the use of DeepSeek on government…
More Australian states ban DeepSeek – Cloud – Hardware – Software
Queensland and Western Australia have become the latest state governments to ban the use of DeepSeek on government devices. The moves come as a response…
Case Study: CBA expands its generative AI vision – Leadership
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is moving forward with its generative AI ambitions, with the technology being integrated into various customer-facing capabilities. Work so far…