Telstra International spreads its Pacific reach – Telco/ISP
Telstra’s international arm has signed on with three new submarine cable consortia. Telstra International is partnering with Google and APTelecom to became part of the…
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Melbourne man pleads guilty to buying stolen data on Genesis Market – Security
A 32-year-old Melbourne man was sentenced to 150 hours of community work on Friday for buying stolen data over Genesis Market before it was seized…
OAIC braces for impact of cyber info sharing – Security
Australia’s privacy watchdog is concerned a mechanism to encourage cyber incident information sharing with the government could impede it from launching future actions. The Office…
eHealth NSW fills vacant CTO role – Training & Development
eHealth NSW has appointed Richard Weir as its chief technology officer and executive director of service delivery. Richard Weir (Credit: eHealth NSW) The agency had…
Progress Software patches critical OpenEdge vulnerability – Security
Progress Software has disclosed a critical vulnerability in several versions of its Progress Application Server in OpenEdge (PASOE) software. According to an advisory, CVE-2023-40051 affects OpenEdge…
NSW trials AI to predict risks to children in state care – Software
The NSW government is testing the ability of an artificial intelligence model to predict risks to children and young people in out-of-home care. The Department…
Qantas embraces Polylith in part of its software engineering – Software
Qantas is making use of the open source Polylith software architecture and tooling to make it simpler and less resource-intensive to make changes to websites…
Microsoft says state-sponsored hackers spied on its executives – Security
A Russian state-sponsored group hacked into Microsoft’s corporate systems on January 12 and stole some emails and documents from staff accounts. The Russian group was…
AWS to invest US$15 billion to expand cloud in Japan – Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.26 trillion yen ($23 billion) in Japan by 2027 to expand cloud computing infrastructure that serves as a…
Sam Altman seeks to raise billions for AI chip factories – Hardware
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to use the billions of dollars he is trying to raise for a chip venture for setting up a network…
Google Maps and other apps asked to restrict route options during Olympics – Software
Navigation applications, such as Google Maps, have been asked by Paris’s public transport authority to restrict suggested routes during the 2024 Olympic Games to the…
644 NDIS users not told which medical records leaked, seven months after HWL Ebsworth hack – Security
Almost 650 National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants and prospective participants have still not been told which of their health records were leaked on the…