Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally – Cloud – Software
Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe…
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TPG Telecom, UTS test 5G signals as flood sensors – Strategy – Telco/ISP
Radio signal propagation on TPG Telecom’s 5G network will be used to gather data about floods, in a trial with the University of Technology, Sydney…
Microsoft, OpenAI plan US$100 billion data centre project – Networking
Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data centre project that could cost as much as US$100 billion ($153.4 billion) and include an…
AT&T leaked data set impacts about 73 million current, former account holders – Security
US telco AT&T is investigating a dataset released on the dark web about two weeks ago, saying a preliminary analysis shows it has impacted approximately…
India rescuing citizens forced into cyber fraud schemes in Cambodia – Security
The Indian government said it was rescuing its citizens who were lured into employment in Cambodia and were being forced to participate in cyber fraud…
Senate to probe 3G network shutdown – Telco/ISP
The Australian Senate has opened an inquiry into the shutdown of Telstra’s and Optus’s 3G networks – but it is not due to make findings…
Australian supermarkets, transport next for cyber exercises – Security
Food and grocery, finance, and transport will be the next three industries to have their cyber security tested under the government’s National Cyber Security Exercise…
WA agencies made to check AI and automated decision tools’ risks – Software
Western Australian agencies are assessing all their existing and planned automated decision-making and artificial intelligence projects under a mandatory risk regime that covers a broad range…
US offers bounty for info on ‘Blackcat’ hackers – Security
The US State Department has offered up to $10 million ($15.3 million) for information on the “Blackcat” ransomware gang who hit the UnitedHealth Group’s tech…
Cyber Security NSW sees better ways to improve council security than audits – Security
Cyber Security NSW has taken aim at the way councils’ security is being assessed, seeing regular maturity and compliance audits as an ineffective way to…
Behind the plot to break Nvidia’s grip on AI by targeting software – Software
Nvidia earned its US$2.2 trillion ($3.37 trillion) market cap by producing artificial-intelligence chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative AI…
Telstra explains why Triple Zero transfers failed – Telco/ISP
Telstra has partly attributed its March 1 Triple Zero outage to software that unexpectedly failed while medical support devices were logging into its network. During…