CASA exploring AI for digital asset operations
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is exploring ways to introduce AI capability for the management its digital assets. The authority has called on technology…
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NBN Co’s 2Gbps services are too fast for ACCC to monitor
NBN Co’s new 2Gbps residential internet plans are too fast to be monitored with SamKnows boxes for the competition watchdog’s speed testing program. Image credit:…
Optus review uncovers 40-60 second delay with emergency calling camp-on
An investigation into the Optus triple zero outage has revealed it can take up to a minute for an emergency call to be re-routed over…
Google aims to make its TPUs better at running PyTorch
Google is working on a new initiative to make its artificial intelligence chips better at running PyTorch, the world’s most widely used AI software framework,…
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing…
Coursera to buy rival Udemy
Online education platform Coursera said it would buy rival Udemy in an all-stock deal, valuing the combined company at US$2.5 billion ($3.8 billion), as the…
ATO, AFP, AER and Veterans’ Affairs get IT modernisation funds
The Australian Taxation Office, Federal Police, the Energy Regulator and Veterans’ Affairs have all secured IT upgrade funding in the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook.…
Gov backs its own AI adoption with $225m
The federal government will invest $225 million into AI for its own use over the next four years, largely via the GovAI service and enablement…
Telcos argue ACMA’s $2.3bn spectrum fee-hike will crush investment
Australia’s mobile network operators have expressed disappointment universally at the prospect of paying up to $2.3 billion more than expected for spectrum they need to…
Banks push out plans to retire batch payments system
A plan by Australia’s banks to retire the batch-based system that processes $17.4 trillion in welfare, pension, salary and bill payments annually has hit a…
Telcos, NBN Co face collective $7.3bn bill to renew wireless spectrum
Australia’s telcos, together with NBN Co, are facing higher costs to keep radio spectrum used for mobile and wireless broadband services than they had lobbied…
Defence CTO retires from the public service
Defence’s chief technology officer Peter Alexander has retired from the Australian public service after a 31-year stint spanning multiple government departments and agencies. Peter Alexander. Department…