Telstra needs expanded LEOsat fleet as remote mobile outages leap
Telstra needs more LEO satellites to be deployed by its partner OneWeb to stem a sharp increase in backhaul-related mobile base station outages impacting remote…
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Google’s Mandiant releases free Salesforce access control checker
Google-owned security vendor Mandiant has released an open-source command line tool which aims to help organisations identify potentially catastrophic access control misconfigurations in their Salesforce…
Aussie teenager charged with swatting US retailers and educational institutions
The Australian Federal Police said a NSW teenager has been charged with making multiple hoax calls to major education and retail institutions in the United…
Overcoming the “last mile” problem in AI adoption with Lucid Software
There’s no denying the technology that has defined the 2020s to date: artificial intelligence, led by generative AI. Businesses of all sizes throughout the world…
Apple, Google strike Gemini deal for revamped Siri
Apple will use Google’s Gemini models for its revamped Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants’ alliance in…
Defence’s VMware contract climbs to $178m
Defence has renewed its access to VMware under a three-year, $178 million deal that appears to represent a more than doubling in spending with the…
Meta to build gigawatt-scale compute infrastructure
Meta will establish Meta Compute to construct tens of gigawatts of computing infrastructure this decade and hundreds of gigawatts more in the future, CEO Mark…
Woolworths to incorporate agentic AI into its Olive chatbot
Woolworths is set to enhance its seven-year-old Olive chatbot with agentic AI capabilities, using newly-launched Gemini technology from Google Cloud. The Australian retailer is included…
Cloudflare DNS reply change crashed Cisco SME switches
A mysterious problem impacting users of Cisco small-to-medium business switches whose devices started rebooting regularly turned out to be caused by a change in how…
India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code
India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures,…
China is closing in on US technology lead despite constraints
China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the…
NSW Department of Education schools’ web facelift driving enrolments
The NSW Department of Education says there are early indications that its website modernisation program is driving higher enrolment rates at public schools sporting its…