NBN Co sees influx of customers into residential gigabit tier – Telco/ISP
NBN Co has seen its largest quarterly increase in residential subscribers to gigabit services since a ‘try before you buy’ promotion it ran three years…
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Parliament published a submission containing AI-drafted ‘inaccuracies’ – Software
A parliamentary submission published online had to be withdrawn after it was found to contain false information about a third-party that had been generated using…
Fintech Klarna using GenAI to cut marketing costs – Finance
Fintech firm Klarna said it is using AI for purposes such as running marketing campaigns and generating images, saving about US$10 million ($15 million) in…
EU monitoring new measures by Meta to tackle election disinformation – Software
The European Commission said Meta Platforms had taken measures to mitigate the spread of disinformation in the run-up to the EU elections. “Meta has now…
LockBit lessons drive Australia to stand up early IR sharing mechanism – Security
The disruption of the LockBit ransomware gang earlier this year has been used to galvanise countries, including Australia, to create mechanisms that lead to earlier…
Cost-cautious Bond University edges into the cloud – Cloud
Bond University has replaced part of an on-premises environment of 700 Dell servers and VMware with cloud in preparation for a broader transformation. Bond University…
Royal Australasian College of Physicians to appoint first CIO – Cloud – Hardware – Networking – Security – Software – Storage
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is in the process of appointing its first chief information officer ahead of a major IT program of…
Intrepid Travel uses real-time and first-party data analytics to boost sales – Cloud – Software
Intrepid Travel is seeing a substantial increase in bookings and revenue from a personalisation initiative that makes use of first-party data, real-time behavioural data and…
Optus loses bid to hide Deloitte report on data breach – Security
Optus has lost its bid to appeal an earlier Federal Court decision granting access to portions of a forensic review of its 2022 data breach…
Automic CIO scratches itch for weekly security improvements – Finance – Software
Automic Group is taking a multi-pronged approach to its information security, using a mix of tooling, testing and weekly security improvements to its ecosystem to…
eSafety and foreign regulators to sync content bans and oversight schemes – Software
Eight nations are syncing their content restriction, user surveillance, corporate disclosure and other oversight powers aimed at mitigating online harms. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.…
ChatGPT still not meeting European data accuracy standards – Software
OpenAI’s efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a…