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…
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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…
Digital platforms warned: tackle disinformation or face regulation – Strategy
If major digital platforms don’t deal with harmful online disinformation, they will be made subject to regulation and a mandatory industry code, the federal government has…
GitLab pushes patches for critical bugs – Security
GitLab has published patches to two critical vulnerabilities in the popular Git version control software. As the organisation said in its advisory, the fixes for CVE-2022-41903 and CVE-2022-23521 have already…
Oracle issues more than 300 security fixes – Security
Oracle’s first bug-fix release for 2023 includes 71 critical patches out of a total 327 security updates. A large number of the fixes are for…
Home Affairs targets cyber security uplift with ‘Project Eight’ – Security
Home Affairs has set up a dedicated taskforce within its ICT division to assess its cyber security maturity against the Essential Eight model and drive…
NAB pushes forward with stablecoin ambitions – Strategy
NAB will soon begin testing its own stablecoin, AUDN, about a year after it first unveiled plans for the currency. The bank’s executive of innovation…
Domino’s Pizza ends A/NZ CIO search – Strategy – Training & Development
Rod Chapman (Credit: LinkedIn) Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has appointed Rod Chapman as its chief information officer for Australia and New Zealand following a five-month search. …