US spectrum auction will fund purge of Huawei, ZTE, other Chinese telecom gear
The US Federal Communications Commission said an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised more than US$3.5 billion ($5 billion), which will largely be used to…
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“Must act now” to counter AI-borne cyber attacks, ‘Five Eyes’ says
Cyber security agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and the United States are stepping up their awareness campaign around artificial intelligence (AI) being used…
Fake IT worker threat spreads outside tech sector in Australia
Australia is increasingly in the sights of employment fraud operators placing workers inside organisations across healthcare, civil engineering and customer service, moving beyond technology companies,…
One NZ cut provisioning time from days to minutes. Here’s how
When One New Zealand set out to modernise its order provisioning process, the results exceeded expectations. A workflow that previously took around 10 days now…
Westpac brings automation and AIOps to life, chasing CPU and memory alerts
Westpac is progressing its adoption of event-driven automation and AIOps in the IT infrastructure space, using it to add data and context to support tickets…
How Lendi Group rebuilt its mortgage platform for the agentic era
Lendi Group, the Australian home loan platform formed from the merger of Lendi and Aussie, has spent the past few years turning a traditional broking…
NAB builds integrated ops hub for threat intelligence
NAB has brought together its “frontline responders” across technology, cyber security, fraud, payments and physical security into a new integrated operations hub Andrew Irvine at…
Suncorp to have AI agents in insurance claims process as soon as this month
Suncorp will have five AI agents handling various tasks or “sub-processes” in insurance claim processing as soon as the end of this month. Kranthi Nekkalapu.…
Trump no longer views Anthropic as national security threat
US President Donald Trump said he might have viewed artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national security threat last week, but he no longer does,…
SA Water makes its interim CIO permanent
SA Water has named Bill Le Blanc as its permanent chief information officer (CIO) and general manager of technology, after six months of working in…
ASX faces $20.5m penalty for failed blockchain-based system replacement
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) faces a $20.5 million penalty for misleading the market in 2022 on the progress of its then blockchain-based Clearing House…
CBA appoints new group CIO
CBA has decided to stick with having separate group CIO and CTO roles, with Victoria Ledda appointed as the permanent CIO following predecessor Gavin Munroe’s…