Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users – Telco/ISP
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and the health care sector. Banking…
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US consumer watchdog proposes rules for Big Tech payments, digital wallets – Software
The top US consumer financial watchdog has proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying they rival traditional payment methods in…
Nationwide Optus outage hits mobile, fixed services – Telco/ISP
Optus engineers are working to restore services after an outage that started early this morning. According to a notice on Optus’ status page, both fixed…
QLD, SA governments back Azure OpenAI service in early GenAI experiments – Cloud – Software
The Queensland and South Australian state governments are forging ahead with practical guidance and early sanctioned uses of generative AI that run on top of…
Siemens, Ericsson warn against EU cyber security rules – Security
Siemens, Ericsson and Schneider Electric, along with industry group DigitalEurope warned that onerous proposed EU rules targeting cyber security risks of smart devices could disrupt…
Meta to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools – Software
Facebook owner Meta is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson, cutting off campaigns’ access to tools that…
AMP completes large-scale tech refresh with DXC – Finance – Strategy – Hardware – Software – Storage
AMP has completed a large-scale “technology refresh program” that saw it shift applications and workloads onto new infrastructure managed by DXC. The work was completed…
Palo Alto Networks intends to buy startup Talon Cyber – Security
-Palo Alto Networks said it intends to buy Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security, as it looks to beef up its cyber security offering to enterprises.…
X restructuring curtails disinformation research – Software
Social media researchers have cancelled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk…
Macquarie Group examines generative AI use cases – Finance – Software
Macquarie Group is investigating potential generative AI use cases and pilots as it goes on the hunt for a new director of product AI. The…
Musk’s xAI launches first AI model to select group – Software
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has released its first AI model to a select group. This comes nearly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT caught…
Westpac to cut tech stack in size by two-thirds – Finance – Strategy
Westpac is cutting its technology stack in size by two-thirds under its latest strategic plan to “radically simplify the bank” as it aims to fast-track…