Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users – Telco/ISP
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and...
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US consumer watchdog proposes rules for Big Tech payments, digital wallets – Software
The top US consumer financial watchdog has proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying they...
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Nationwide Optus outage hits mobile, fixed services – Telco/ISP
Optus engineers are working to restore services after an outage that started early this morning. According to a notice on...
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QLD, SA governments back Azure OpenAI service in early GenAI experiments – Cloud – Software
The Queensland and South Australian state governments are forging ahead with practical guidance and early sanctioned uses of generative AI...
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Siemens, Ericsson warn against EU cyber security rules – Security
Siemens, Ericsson and Schneider Electric, along with industry group DigitalEurope warned that onerous proposed EU rules targeting cyber security risks...
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Meta to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools – Software
Facebook owner Meta is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson, cutting off...
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AMP completes large-scale tech refresh with DXC – Finance – Strategy – Hardware – Software – Storage
AMP has completed a large-scale “technology refresh program” that saw it shift applications and workloads onto new infrastructure managed by...
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Palo Alto Networks intends to buy startup Talon Cyber – Security
-Palo Alto Networks said it intends to buy Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security, as it looks to beef up its...
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X restructuring curtails disinformation research – Software
Social media researchers have cancelled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of...
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Macquarie Group examines generative AI use cases – Finance – Software
Macquarie Group is investigating potential generative AI use cases and pilots as it goes on the hunt for a new...
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Musk’s xAI launches first AI model to select group – Software
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has released its first AI model to a select group. This comes nearly a...
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Westpac to cut tech stack in size by two-thirds – Finance – Strategy
Westpac is cutting its technology stack in size by two-thirds under its latest strategic plan to “radically simplify the bank”...
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