Holding Redlich joins Australian trial of legal sector AI – Software
Holding Redlich will trial drafting legal documents and emails to clients on ‘Lexis+ AI’ before the generative AI platform’s commercial release in the Asia Pacific. …
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ASIO boss warns of “crack cyber teams” scanning critical networks – Strategy – Security
ASIO director general Mike Burgess has drawn on last November’s Optus outage to illustrate the fragility of Australia’s critical infrastructure networks to attacks by foreign…
Australia Post selects tech to underpin customer experience transformation – Cloud – Software
Australia Post will use a Salesforce stack to power a customer experience transformation that spans parcel tracking, customer support and personalisation. It’s the first major…
APT28 is recruiting Ubiquiti EdgeRouters into botnets – Security
Security agencies led by the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the US Cyber Command are warning that state-sponsored Russian actors are leading coordinated attacks…
Optus shedding another 200 staff – Strategy – Telco/ISP
Optus is laying off nearly 200 staff following the outcome of an internal review. The telco said in a statement that it “continually evaluates our…
University study warns of AI risks – Software
AI is seen as a business “panacea of efficiency and effectiveness”, but a group of academics from University of the Sunshine Coast is warning adopters…
Progress patches authentication bug in OpenEdge – Security
Progress Software’s OpenEdge authentication gateway and AdminServer need to be patched against a critical authentication bypass bug present in all supported releases of OpenEdge. According…
WA Education software rollout starts soon – Cloud – Software
Western Australia’s Department of Education is finally rolling out its $189 million “Kaartdijin” software upgrade. Tenders for the cloud-based Kaartdijin, which handles schools’ budgeting, asset…
Multi-cloud in fashion at Forever New – Cloud
Melbourne fashion brand Forever New has refreshed its cloud strategy to cut energy consumption while giving it global real-time inventory management and faster access to…
Digital sales up strongly for Coles – Strategy
Coles has reported strong digital growth in the 2024 first half-year, with ecommerce sales up 29.2 percent in the period, reaching 9.1 percent of supermarket sales.…
OpenAI says NYT ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit – Software
OpenAI has asked a US federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its…
European data centres grapple with AI-driven demand for space – Cloud
A shortage of space in European data centres is worsening, industry participants said, as booming demand for AI collides with limited expansion possibilities. “There is…