Colonial First State names data and AI group executive
Colonial First State has appointed Sid Baidwan as its group executive of data and AI. Image credit: LinkedIn. The Australian superannuation and investment fund said…
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Alinta Energy spins up AI system for executive insights
Alinta Energy has built a multi-agent system that connects executives to insights, and the underlying source data, to assist their thinking and decision-making. The gentailer…
Qantas escapes formal OAIC probe over 2025 vishing breach
Qantas will not face an investigation by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) for the June 2025 data breach that saw millions of…
Russian spies hunt for routers running legacy protocols with default credentials
A coalition of 19 national cyber security agencies has issued a joint warning that Russian state-sponsored threat actors are systematically scanning the Internet for exposed…
Medical clinic chain Partnered Health hit by data theft
Adelaide-headquartered Partnered Health has disclosed it suffered a data breach on June 23, with the chain of general practitioner clinics informing patients and authorities. The…
Pentagon pauses cyber audit rule blamed for supplier exits
The Pentagon is suspending the next phase of a cyber security certification program for defence contractors, backing off a compliance requirement that industry executives had…
JB Hi-Fi Group finds new cyber security leader
JB Hi-Fi Group has appointed Kanchana Devi as its head of group cyber security following the departure of Daniel Eastley in April. Devi announced her…
US unseals charges, offers reward for info on alleged Russian hackers
US authorities have unsealed charges and offered a US$10 million ($14.3 million) reward for information on three Russians accused of providing computer infrastructure related to…
Microsoft’s July security patch fest brings on the ‘bug apocalypse’
This month’s regular round of security patches from Microsoft is likely to cause more than one Patch Wednesday (antipodean time) chronicler to sit up due…
IBM warns AI boom squeezing software budgets
IBM said it had “faltered” in keeping pace with a shift in corporate spending from software to data-centre infrastructure and would take a big earnings…
Australia to establish government AI office
=Australia will create an office at the heart of government to manage the development of AI standards, seeking to balance the need to attract investment…
AI’s Next Challenge Isn’t Models — It’s Managing Data at Scale
Across Asia-Pacific, AI is moving from experimentation into operational use. Governments and enterprises are increasingly focused on how to generate value from AI — not…