Microsoft can’t kill dogged researcher’s Copilot for Word worm
A Norwegian data scientist has shown that prompt injection attacks on large language models remain a hard-to-fix problem, with a Copilot for Word self-propagating worm…
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NBN Co using AI to draft incident reports, prepare field crews
NBN Co is using artificial intelligence to prepare the “first cut” of post-incident reports and to better prepare crews to fix damaged infrastructure, amid a…
NZ data centre builder contracts for new trans-Tasman link
A “Tasman Ring” submarine cable network connecting Australia and New Zealand has reached a milestone, with Datagrid New Zealand signing a pair of delivery contracts with…
Musk’s X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law
Elon Musk’s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining US law with plans for tougher enforcement of…
nib ends search for permanent technology leader
Health insurer nib has named former ING Australia and BT Financial Group chief information officer (CIO) Linda Da Silva as its permanent technology leader. The ASX-listed…
Optus’ 13-hour outage in 2025 lands it back in court
An Optus outage that saw triple zero calls fail to connect and linked to two deaths is set to land the telco in court. The…
Singtel confirms talks to sell Optus stake
Singtel has confirmed it is shopping a stake in its Australian subsidiary Optus after reports indicated around one-third of the telco may be up for…
Fed gov boosts GovAI with models from Google, Nvidia and more
The Department of Finance has materially expanded the number of AI models that can be sourced through its whole-of-government service GovAI. The service has notably…
REA Group outs Launchpad, a platform engineering capability
REA Group is building a central platform engineering group and capability it is calling Launchpad, with a goal to get its product and delivery teams…
Visa to lay off 2600 staff
Visa plans to cut seven percent of its workforce, or about 2600 jobs, a company spokesperson said, as the payments processor seeks to become more…
Okta details ‘Work Panel’, a turnkey SaaS platform for vishing crews
Identity provider Okta’s Threat Intelligence said it has obtained an inside look at a new criminal operator console that packages everything a voice-phishing crew needs…
OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack mixed technical brilliance with incoherent noise
OpenAI’s model benchmarking exercise that led to its agents hacking machine learning platform Hugging Face was described by the artificial intelligence company as an “unprecedented…