Telcos unable to overturn $7.3bn bill to renew mobile spectrum
Telstra, Optus, TPG and NBN Co will pay just over $7.3 billion to keep expiring mobile and wireless spectrum licenses after the sector’s efforts to…
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AustralianSuper hires its first head of AI and automation
AustralianSuper has appointed Microsoft A/NZ’s current national chief technology officer Sarah Carney as its inaugural head of artificial intelligence and automation. Carney will step into…
Event Cinemas owner EVT to make network software-defined
Entertainment and travel group EVT has started moving to software-defined networking in a bid to boost its data capacity and reduce its reliance on physical…
Service Stream is checking field work with computer vision
Service Stream is increasingly using computer vision to verify that field work is completed to specification and safely. Service Stream’s head of data and AI…
Victorian bulk porting scammer gets over two years in prison
A 35-year-old man from Lynbrook, south-east Melbourne, has received a prison sentence of two years and two months, with a 12-month non-parole period, for a…
Telstra and Ericsson to jointly research and test 6G
Telstra will join its long-term equipment partner Ericsson in a program of reciprocal development and testing of 6G technology. The two companies have signed a…
Grafana refuses ransom demand after GitHub breach
Grafana Labs, the maker of popular open source monitoring and observability tooling, is resisting paying off a threat actor that gained access to its GitHub…
OpenAI defeats Elon Musk’s lawsuit
A US jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world’s richest person…
Rio Tinto brings automation, Copilot to its finance function
Rio Tinto has put Microsoft’s Power Platform to use in its global shared services operations, with the first use case introducing automation to its month-end…
Estia Health drives Zero Trust security overhaul
Australia’s second-largest residential aged care provider Estia Health is using Zero Trust principles to enable “precise, context-aware access” for anyone interacting with its systems or…
Australia Post’s future IT estate to rely on 13 “platform ecosystems”
Australia Post is working towards a target state architecture comprising 13 “platform ecosystems”, in what would represent a dramatic simplification and modernisation of its technology…
Composability in the Great Content Collapse
The digital content landscape has shifted under our feet. And you’ve probably noticed. Nearly half of all Google searches now feature AI Overviews. Those AI-generated results…