State of Security 2026: Cloud Security
The shift to the cloud has relieved organisations of the complexity of managing their own infrastructure, but it has introduced an entirely new set of…
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Firmus invests US$300m in SUBCO’s APX East
Key points Firmus Technologies has signed a US$300 million ($416 million) agreement with SUBCO, securing rights to 150Tbps of capacity on the APX East subsea…
Tabcorp appoints new CISO – iTnews
Key points Tabcorp has named Maxine Harrison as its new chief information security officer, following the former leader’s departure in July. Harrison most recently served…
Coles to end data analytics work with Palantir
Key points Coles Group is ending its three-year data and analytics partnership with Palantir Technologies, which covered rostering, store operations and supply chain planning across…
IAG builds AI into its HR service delivery
Key points IAG has moved from ServiceNow’s conversational chatbot to its Now Assist AI suite to boost self-service deflection rates for HR queries. The insurer…
Nvidia buys Hugging Face in US$13 billion deal
Nvidia will buy popular developer platform Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion ($17.96 billion), using its growing AI war chest to expand its influence in the…
Network infrastructure will determine the fate of AI
Rami Rahim will be delivering the keynote address at HPE Networking Day in Sydney on 7 October 2026 While there has been much focus on…
ACMA fines Telstra for SIM swapping prevention misses
Key points ACMA has fined Telstra $277,000 for failing to use required identity authentication processes to prevent SIM swapping fraud. The fraud caused at least…
Airservices Australia wants to build an ‘AI front door’
Key points Airservices Australia is exploring a “broker platform” within its AWS tenancy to act as a single governed entry point for all AI interactions.…
Google escapes ad tech breakup
Google has escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business, marking the third time in recent years that US antitrust enforcers have tried to force…
USDA to test satellites, AI to try to improve crop estimates
The US Department of Agriculture is launching a pilot project that will rely more heavily on technology as part of a broader effort to improve…
Telstra sowed seeds for its July mobile outage in 2020. Six years on they sprouted.
When Telstra engineers embarked on a simple server chassis replacement exercise in 2020, they could barely have contemplated the complex chain of missteps and complacency…