Australia Post experiences online services outage – Software
Australia Post customers spent several hours on Monday unable to access MyPost Business and MyPost Consumer online services or track parcels due to a “technical…
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Defence seeks quantum comms research – Networking
The Department of Defence is looking for researchers to work on quantum communication technologies. In a tender published earlier this month, the department said it’s…
Suncorp Group rolling out 13,600 Surface devices – Cloud – Hardware
Suncorp general manager of IT infrastructure Charles Pizzato. Suncorp Group has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft covering its ongoing cloud migration as well…
Clarence City Council looks for new CIO – Strategy – Training & Development
Vivien Patterson. LinkedIn Tasmania’s Clarence City Council is searching for a new chief information officer as incumbent Vivien Patterson prepares to leave in March. The…
SA Police asks for easier emergency access to geolocation data – Security – Telco/ISP
South Australia Police is pressing for more permissive access to cellular location data in emergencies, arguing proposed law changes don’t go far enough and that…
QUT alerts staff, students to data breach – Security
Queensland University of Technology has alerted 2500 staff and 67 students that their personal information was breached in a late December incident. Most of the…
AWS to invest another US$35 billion in Virginia – Networking
Amazon Web Services plans to invest another US$35 billion (A$50.3 billion) by 2040 to expand data centres in Virginia. AWS said the new investment will…
Google parent cuts 12,000 jobs – Training & Development
Google’s parent Alphabet is cutting about 12,000 jobs as it faces “a different economic reality”, it said in a staff memo, the latest among tech…
Slack plug-and-play tools accelerate automation – Partner Content
As an organisation, Slack has always been on the lookout for the best ways to accelerate innovation and collaboration. Initially, it focused on the developer…
Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre restructured – Strategy – Security
The government’s Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre ended 2022 with an organisational and executive restructure. CISC head Hamish Hansford wrote in the organisation’s January newsletter [pdf] that…
Flying Doctor takes on Starlink for regional access – Telco/ISP
The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Queensland has directly partnered with Starlink to deploy a three-site regional satellite service to remote areas. The RFDS Queensland…
Meta’s WhatsApp fined 5.5 million euro by privacy regulator – Strategy
Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros (A$8.6 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead EU privacy regulator, for an…