Category: ITnews

Atlassian to buy video messaging provider Loom
12
Oct
2023

Atlassian to buy video messaging provider Loom – Software

Atlassian has agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about US$975 million ($1.5 billion), beefing up its…

Microsoft says US has asked for US$28.9 billion
12
Oct
2023

Microsoft says US has asked for US$28.9 billion – Software

Microsoft said the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in September notified the company that it is seeking an additional tax…

US Space Force pauses use of AI tools like ChatGPT
12
Oct
2023

US Space Force pauses use of AI tools like ChatGPT – Software

The US Space Force has paused the use of web-based generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT for its workforce over…

Oman Australia Cable gets extra capacity
12
Oct
2023

Oman Australia Cable gets extra capacity – Telco/ISP

The Oman Australia Cable has been upgraded to boost its speed and cut its latency. The cable, which entered service…

Metcash de-risks its digital transformation with observability
12
Oct
2023

Metcash de-risks its digital transformation with observability – Software

Metcash has set up a core observability platform that takes the place of up to 20 monitoring tools, and which…

Optus scopes GenAI additions to ServiceNow
11
Oct
2023

Optus scopes GenAI additions to ServiceNow – Cloud

Optus is starting to deploy a telecommunications industry-specific module of ServiceNow that it hopes will help it serve its business-to-business…

National cyber security coordinator warns schools becoming targets
11
Oct
2023

National cyber security coordinator warns schools becoming targets – Security

Australia’s national cyber security coordinator has warned that schools may be the next major target of ransomware groups. Speaking at…

TPG phases in AI-powered network analysis
11
Oct
2023

Southeast Asia eyes hands-off AI rules – Software

Southeast Asian countries are taking a business-friendly approach to artificial intelligence regulation in a setback to the European Union’s push…

Microsoft identifies
11
Oct
2023

Microsoft identifies “Oro0lxy” as Confluence attacker – Security

A bug in Atlassian’s Confluence data centre and server software is under attack, allegedly from threat actors in China. Atlassian…

Apple Pay, Google Wallet face RBA regulation
11
Oct
2023

Apple Pay, Google Wallet face RBA regulation – Finance – Software

The federal government has released an exposure draft of legislation that would give the RBA the power to regulate digital…

Telstra acquires Versent for $267.5 million
11
Oct
2023

Telstra acquires Versent for $267.5 million – Cloud

Telstra is adding AWS services capabilities to its Telstra Purple business, via the $267.5 million acquisition of Melbourne-based Versent. The…

HTTP2 zero-day enabled record-setting DDoS attacks
10
Oct
2023

HTTP2 zero-day enabled record-setting DDoS attacks – Security – iTnews

Web server vendors have been busy responding to an HTTP2 protocol vulnerability which Google said has enabled high-capacity DDoS attacks…