Meta releases AI model for translating speech – Software
Meta Platforms has released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication…
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IBM sells weather business – Software
IBM has agreed to sell its weather business to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The sale includes The Weather Company’s consumer-focused…
Queensland Health’s digital passport built in months in SAP BTP – Cloud – Software
Queensland Health used SAP cloud services to create a “digital passport” that consolidates all credential and training data for clinical staff in one place, allowing…
Coles makes digital acceleration a core strategic pillar – Strategy – Hardware – Software
Coles Group has named customer experience and digital enablement as one of four “immediate areas of focus” under an evolution of its business strategy. One…
University researchers craft protocol to defeat IMSI-catchers – Security
US researchers have discovered that the presence of “rogue base stations” – more formally known as IMSI catchers – can be revealed by synchronising the…
Meta Platforms seeks to stop privacy breach fine in Norway – Security
Meta Platforms will ask a court in Norway to stop a fine the country’s data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram…
Telstra’s 20-year USO agreement with gov can be given to Vodafone – Telco/ISP
Vodafone Hutchison Australia could receive a copy of Telstra’s 20-year contract with the government within weeks, after a more than five-year battle for the contents…
Veilid unveiled by Cult of the Dead Cow – Security
One of the world’s oldest hacker collectives, the 1984-founded Cult of the Dead Cow, re-emerged at last week’s DEF CON to make public a privacy-preserving…
More patches arrive from Ivanti – Security
Ivanti has once again scrambled to plug a zero-day vulnerability which may have been exploited in the wild. The latest bug, CVE-2023-38035, affects its Sentry…
Energy One latest company to suffer data breach – Security
Wholesale energy software vendor Energy One has suffered a data breach. The ASX-listed company said [pdf] that “certain corporate systems in Australia and the United Kingdom”…
Tesla says two ex-employees behind May data breach – Security
Two former Tesla employees were behind a data breach that compromised personal information of more than 75,000 people including staff, the electric carmaker said in…
SentinelOne explores sale – Security
SentinelOne, a cyber security company with a market value of about US$5 billion ($7.8 billion), has been exploring options that could include a sale, according…