Windows Secure Boot certificates expire in June, Microsoft warns
Microsoft said it has begun rolling out new Secure Boot security certificates, ahead of a late June 2026 expiration deadline that affects virtually every Windows…
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From AI hype to AI help
Australian organisations are pouring millions into artificial intelligence, yet most are struggling to turn experimentation into real-world impact. “Boardroom AI projects aren’t failing because the…
Telstra-Accenture Data and AI joint venture to cut 209 positions
The year-old Telstra-Accenture Data and AI joint venture is proposing to cut about 209 positions with some discontinued and others shifted to India. The seven-year…
Department of Comms reveals text-based triple zero pilot is close
The federal government has revealed that it is working on establishing a technical trial that could lead to the establishment of Australia’s first mass adoption…
Westpac CIO to retire this year
Westpac’s group chief information officer of two-and-a-half years Scott Collary is set to retire “later this year”. Collary – who has been with Westpac for…
BoM reveals plan to fix website within six months
The Bureau of Meteorology says it will take six months to address the deluge of community outrage its new $96.5 million website has generated after…
Qld Child Safety IT system to be fixed within six months
The Queensland government has assembled a team of 120 staff to remediate a $183 million client and case management system built for child safety in…
Mystery Optus mobile glitch impacts over 100,000 users
Optus is still trying to determine the cause of a mobile service outage that is understood to have impacted over 100,000 customers. An Optus spokesperson…
FIIG penalised $2.5m for cyber security failures
Australia’s securities and investment commission (ASIC) has succeeded in its application for FIIG Securities to be penalised for a large-scale data breach in 2023 that…
Telstra asks Treasury to cap spectrum prices at $3.9 billion
Telstra has asked the federal government to cap the price of spectrum licence renewals at $3.9 billion sector-wide after accusing the communications regulator of overvaluing…
Errant security certificate behind six-hour Senate web service outage
An expired security certificate caused a six-hour outage to the real-time web service used by parliamentarians to track senate activities. The Department of Parliamentary Services…
Under malware threat, runaway AI agent project OpenClaw turns to Google’s VirusTotal
The OpenClaw autonomous artificial intelligence agent project has teamed up with Google’s VirusTotal malware scanning service, following the discovery of malicious code in the bot…