McGrath Estate Agents head of technology departs – Training & Development
McGrath Estate Agents has lost its head of technology Darren Warner after a two-year stint that included a digital transformation and cyber security uplift. Darren…
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Microsoft ditches OpenAI board observer seat – Software
Microsoft has given up its board observer seat at OpenAI in a move aimed at easing US and UK antitrust regulators’ concerns about the extent…
Seven West Media predicts 7Plus audiences up to a month ahead – Cloud – Storage
Seven West Media is using machine learning to predict what 7Plus viewers are likely to watch up to 28 days in advance, forecasts it can…
Global regulators tighten rules on banks outsourcing services – Cloud – Finance
Board directors of banks must take ultimate responsibility for outsourced services and document how they manage the risk of outages and disruptions to customer services,…
Meta and Vodafone optimise video to boost network efficiency – Telco/ISP
Instagram-owner Meta has worked with Vodafone to free up capacity on 11 of its European mobile networks by optimising the delivery of short-form video without…
ANZx gets business to create its own next-best actions – Finance – Software
ANZx is ramping up the sophistication of a backend engine that oversees how the bank engages customers of its ANZ Plus digital-only offering with relevant…
ASD forensics underpin global APT40 threat warning – Security
Australian investigations into the breach of two organisations in 2022 form the basis of an international advisory on APT40, a state-sponsored threat group linked to…
ASD hack forensics underpin global APT40 threat warning – Security
Australian investigations into the breach of two organisations in 2022 form the basis of an international advisory on APT40, a state-sponsored threat group linked to…
ATO bugs incorrectly revived 600 historic tax debts – Software
Over 600 taxpayers fell afoul of an automated system the ATO used to revive old debts and get them paid out of tax refunds, after…
RBA to outsource workload migration for new data centre – Finance – Cloud – Hardware – Software
Reserve Bank of Australia has outlined plans to outsource the migration of “all workloads” from an on-premises to third-party data centre under its core modernisation…
Catch.com.au upgrades web app protections after DDoS attack – Cloud – Security
Wesfarmers-owned Catch.com.au has undergone a web application protection upgrade, partially in response to its first significant distributed denial-of-service attack in 2022. Platform engineering lead Cameron…
Gov to run “stocktake” of all internet-facing systems and services – Security
The federal government will run a “stocktake” of all its internet-facing systems and services by June next year. A direction [pdf], which was signed by…