Australia’s social media ban takes effect in world first
Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram…
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Accenture to train 30,000 staff on Anthropic’s Claude
Accenture and Anthropic announced an expansion of their partnership through a new business group where around 30,000 of the consulting giant’s employees will be trained…
AEC taps EY for master data management platform
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has contracted EY to stand up a cloud-based master data management platform to underpin the next stage of its ICT…
Macquarie Group unveils Dexd, its “developer experience daemon”
Macquarie Group has put a developer experience daemon on the laptop of every engineer to ensure they have a consistent setup and templates that help…
TPG Telecom reveals potential new fatality linked to Samsung handset
TPG Telecom has reported another potential triple zero call-related customer fatality linked to the use of a Samsung mobile handset model with a known emergency…
CBA runs early test of “frontier” AWS AI agent
CBA has run an early non-production test of a ‘DevOps agent’ unveiled by AWS last week, which is marketed as a new type of AI…
IBM to buy Confluent in US$11bn deal
IBM will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at US$11 billion ($16.6 billion), ramping up its cloud-computing offerings to capitalise on an…
Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones
Vocus is lobbying the government to more than double the number of submarine cable protection zones in Australia and to more actively police the areas.…
DTA in push to drive up government cloud use
Federal government departments and agencies will be pushed to use more cloud services from July 2026 under a new whole-of-government policy. The policy [pdf], released…
TfNSW to replace traffic nerve centre core systems
Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is looking to upgrade and simplify the stack of core systems it uses in its transport and traffic nerve centre. The department’s Transport…
Samsung hits back, warns against old tech for triple zero
Samsung has warned the federal triple zero inquiry and mobile carriers not to rely on legacy technologies for triple zero calls if they add new…
WA makes its chief data officer permanent
The Western Australian government has made Natalia Kacperek its permanent chief data officer after two years acting in the role. Kacperek’s permanent appointment was made…