Home Affairs’ VMware arrangements top $60m
Home Affairs has consolidated its VMware subscriptions into a single three-year, $61 million deal, representing an increased cost although it’s unclear by just how much.…
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Visa snaps up BioCatch – iTnews
Visa will buy fraud intelligence provider BioCatch for US$2.4 billion ($3.4 billion) in cash, marking the card giant’s latest effort to beef up its cyber…
Journey Beyond finds safer path to customer AI with agentic agents
The Australian experiential tourism operator Journey Beyond is using agentic AI to mitigate the governance risks of customer-facing AI after finding conversational AI chatbots could…
Gov defends social media ban after study shows most teens still online
Australia’s government has mounted a defence of its world-first ban on social media for children under 16, even as fresh data revealed the scale of…
Arch Linux halts package adoptions after malware hijacking wave
Distribution Arch Linux has disabled package adoptions on the Arch User Repository (AUR) after attackers used the feature to push large amounts of malicious code…
Microsoft can’t kill dogged researcher’s Copilot for Word worm
A Norwegian data scientist has shown that prompt injection attacks on large language models remain a hard-to-fix problem, with a Copilot for Word self-propagating worm…
NBN Co using AI to draft incident reports, prepare field crews
NBN Co is using artificial intelligence to prepare the “first cut” of post-incident reports and to better prepare crews to fix damaged infrastructure, amid a…
NZ data centre builder contracts for new trans-Tasman link
A “Tasman Ring” submarine cable network connecting Australia and New Zealand has reached a milestone, with Datagrid New Zealand signing a pair of delivery contracts with…
Musk’s X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law
Elon Musk’s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining US law with plans for tougher enforcement of…
nib ends search for permanent technology leader
Health insurer nib has named former ING Australia and BT Financial Group chief information officer (CIO) Linda Da Silva as its permanent technology leader. The ASX-listed…
Optus’ 13-hour outage in 2025 lands it back in court
An Optus outage that saw triple zero calls fail to connect and linked to two deaths is set to land the telco in court. The…
Singtel confirms talks to sell Optus stake
Singtel has confirmed it is shopping a stake in its Australian subsidiary Optus after reports indicated around one-third of the telco may be up for…