There’s insight gold hidden in the mountains of data – Partner Content
Today’s hybrid-everything environments generate enormous amounts of data, in numbers that are hard to understand and to visualise. In 2020, the estimate of data created…
Category: ITnews
Vic gov nears decision for AI-enabled monitoring on school networks – Networking – Security
The Victorian government is set to choose between three AI-enabled monitoring tools “early this year” as part of a plan to improve the security of…
Home Affairs splits telco services between Optus, Vocus – Telco/ISP
Home Affairs has split its telecommunications services work into five streams and awarded work so far to Optus and Vocus. The department decided to restructure its telecommunications…
NSW Health network upgrades get go-ahead – Strategy
The NSW Department of Health is getting the ball rolling on an IT network upgrade that will eventually reach more than 1100 sites. The Health…
ASIC looks for invite to receive cyber incident intel – Finance – Security
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made a case to be part of the inner circle of agencies privy to intelligence about active…
Ubiquitous UEFI implementation has serious vulnerabilities – Security
Researchers from cyber security vendor Quarkslab are warning of a total of nine vulnerabilities in the TianoCore EDK II, the open source reference UEFI implementation…
OpenAI CEO Altman says future AI depends on energy breakthrough – Software
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said an energy breakthrough is necessary for future artificial intelligence, which will consume vastly more power than people have expected. Speaking…
Atlassian issues urgent Confluence patch – Security
Atlassian is warning users of out-of-date Confluence data centre and server environments that they need to update to a current version to patch a critical-rated…
Synopsys to buy engineering software firm Ansys – Strategy
Chip design software maker Synopsys will buy Ansys in a US$35 billion ($53 billion) cash-and-stock deal, snapping up the maker of software used in creating…
WooliesX reorganises engineering under Agile structure tweak – Strategy – Training & Development – Software
WooliesX, the online and digital arm of Woolworths, has tweaked its Agile organisational structure, with some of the early changes apparent in its software engineering…
Medion fined for SIM-swap code breaches – Telco/ISP
Medion Australia has paid a penalty of nearly $260,000 for not complying with customer identification rules. Announcing the $259,440 penalty, the Australian Communications and Media…
NSW takes first steps at restarting internet voting strategy – Strategy – Software
The NSW Electoral Commission has made the first tentative steps towards reintroducing technology-assisted voting in the state, following the withdrawal of the old iVote system.…