United Airlines to bring Starlink on flights this year – Networking – Telco/ISP
United Airlines expects to begin testing Starlink in February for inflight internet services, and to first offer the connectivity on a commercial flight operated by…
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NSW Herbarium completes five-year archive digitisation – Cloud – Storage
The National Herbarium of NSW has gone live with a digital archive documenting over 1 million plant species using cloud storage from Amazon Web Services. National…
Microsoft plans to invest US$80 billion on AI-enabled data centres in fiscal 2025 – Cloud
Microsoft is planning to invest about US$80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centres to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and deploy AI and…
ISP Flip shifts to Swoop infrastructure – Telco/ISP
Internet service provider Flip has migrated its customer base onto Swoop Telecommunications’ network under a three-year, $30 million deal. Swoop chief technology officer Tom Berryman…
Microsoft plans to invest US$80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025 – Cloud
Microsoft is planning to invest about US$80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centres to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and deploy AI and…
AustralianSuper turns on Security Copilot – Security – Software
AustralianSuper has implemented Microsoft’s Security Copilot amid fears of increasing attacks by threat actors using artificial intelligence. AustralianSuper’s Mike Backeberg (right) Australia’s largest superannuation firm,…
US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in ‘major incident’ – Security
Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the US Treasury Department earlier this month and stole documents from its workstations. According to a letter to lawmakers provided…
IBM, GlobalFoundries settle lawsuits over contract, trade secrets – Hardware
GlobalFoundries and IBM have settled duelling lawsuits in which GlobalFoundries was accused of breaching a contract with IBM and the computer giant was alleged to…
Apple to pay US$95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit – Security
Apple agreed to pay US$95 million ($152 million) in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users’…
Chinese Salt Typhoon cyber espionage targets AT&T, Verizon – Security
The Chinese-linked Salt Typhoon cyberespionage operation targeted AT&T and Verizon’s systems, but the wireless carriers’ US networks are now secure as they work with law…
Cyber attack on Italy’s Foreign Ministry, airports claimed by pro-Russian hacker group – Security
Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan’s two airports, putting them out of action temporarily,…
Hackers hijack a wide range of companies’ Chrome extensions – Security
Hackers have compromised several different companies’ Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and…