Department of Comms reveals text-based triple zero pilot is close
The federal government has revealed that it is working on establishing a technical trial that could lead to the establishment of Australia’s first mass adoption…
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Westpac CIO to retire this year
Westpac’s group chief information officer of two-and-a-half years Scott Collary is set to retire “later this year”. Collary – who has been with Westpac for…
BoM reveals plan to fix website within six months
The Bureau of Meteorology says it will take six months to address the deluge of community outrage its new $96.5 million website has generated after…
Qld Child Safety IT system to be fixed within six months
The Queensland government has assembled a team of 120 staff to remediate a $183 million client and case management system built for child safety in…
Mystery Optus mobile glitch impacts over 100,000 users
Optus is still trying to determine the cause of a mobile service outage that is understood to have impacted over 100,000 customers. An Optus spokesperson…
FIIG penalised $2.5m for cyber security failures
Australia’s securities and investment commission (ASIC) has succeeded in its application for FIIG Securities to be penalised for a large-scale data breach in 2023 that…
Telstra asks Treasury to cap spectrum prices at $3.9 billion
Telstra has asked the federal government to cap the price of spectrum licence renewals at $3.9 billion sector-wide after accusing the communications regulator of overvaluing…
Errant security certificate behind six-hour Senate web service outage
An expired security certificate caused a six-hour outage to the real-time web service used by parliamentarians to track senate activities. The Department of Parliamentary Services…
Under malware threat, runaway AI agent project OpenClaw turns to Google’s VirusTotal
The OpenClaw autonomous artificial intelligence agent project has teamed up with Google’s VirusTotal malware scanning service, following the discovery of malicious code in the bot…
Anthropic buys Super Bowl ads to slap OpenAI for selling ads in ChatGPT
Anthropic is spending millions of dollars to air commercials during the National Football League championship game to slam rival OpenAI for its plan to sell…
nib’s group CIO of 13 years leaves
nib’s long-time group chief information officer Brendan Mills has left the health insurer, with technology duties falling to a similarly long-tenured leader on an interim…
REA Group brings conversational AI search to realestate.com.au
REA Group has started offering conversational search capability on its flagship website realestate.com.au after expanding natural language search to half of the site’s visitors. The…