Macquarie brings agentic SRE to its digital bank
Macquarie’s banking division is taking reliability cues from Google, adopting its site reliability engineering principles and using AI agents to enforce them. Macquarie Group’s Phillip…
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Coalition names shadow comms, digital and cyber ministers
The federal opposition has reshaped its shadow ministry under newly-appointed leader Angus Taylor, with new appointments in the main technology portfolios. Senator Sarah Henderson has…
Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in cloud-based password managers
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) have discovered serious vulnerabilities in popular, cloud-based password managers that allowed them to view and…
Victoria’s whole-of-government CISO has left
Victorian government chief information security officer Dovid Clarke has left after just over two years, prompting an external search for his replacement. Clarke, who played…
OpenClaw founder joins OpenAI – iTnews
Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said. “Peter Steinberger…
Bendigo Bank cuts cost, time out of software development efforts
Bendigo Bank is in the process of “materially changing” its “technology development operating model”, with a digital onboarding experience declared as one of its first…
Pentagon, Anthropic in battle over AI usage restrictions
The Pentagon is considering ending its relationship with artificial intelligence company Anthropic over its insistence on keeping some restrictions on how the U.S. military uses…
Woolworths splits infosec and physical security again
Woolworths has called time on having a single executive run both physical and information security, following the departure of Pieter van der Merwe at the…
Concerns over Westpac Unite as tech chiefs depart
Westpac has sought to allay concerns about the retirement of two of its most senior technology leaders as its Project Unite technology program enters a…
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI groupwide
Wesfarmers is embarking on a groupwide program that will see it use agentic AI to personalise retail experiences and reduce operational complexity. The ASX-listed company…
Pentagon pushing AI companies to expand on classified networks
The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available on classified networks without many of the…
Sydney Metro quietly abandoned M1 5G network hopes
Sydney Metro has revealed that it abandoned hopes of building a 5G network across the city segment of its M1 rapid transit line after finding…