ACMA altering outage data handling as public register nears
The communications regulator will “refine” its procedures for handling increasing volumes of carrier outage notification data as it prepares for the arrival of the Triple…
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Commercial spyware targeted Samsung Galaxy users for months
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division have documented a previously unknown Android commercial spyware that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung devices…
Nobel winner, HPE and chip industry firms team up to make a practical quantum supercomputer
John M. Martinis, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for breakthroughs in quantum computing, on Monday formed an alliance with…
Kmart Group tests AI in its finance operations
Kmart Group intends to “tread carefully” with AI uses in corporate finance, so far using the technology to improve the way its 450-odd stores get…
David Jones sets target for legacy platform wind-down
David Jones expects to be able to phase out an ageing hodgepodge of legacy integration platforms and consolidate them on Workato’s enterprise iPaaS offering within…
TPG Telecom hopes ‘digital twin’ can predict network, service disaster impacts
TPG Telecom is building a digital twin of its network infrastructure to predict outages and potentially other kinds of essential service breakdowns during disasters, after picking up…
AI providers plug metadata leak that exposed encrypted chat topics
Microsoft has disclosed a new side-channel attack that could let eavesdroppers infer chat topics even through end-to-end encryption. Although there is no indication that the…
Monash University pilots graph database tech to map research ecosystem
Monash University is piloting graph database technology to track relationships between researchers, publications and equipment with the aim of improving return on research investment. Monash…
DVA trials ChatGPT-based tool with 300 staff
Australia’s lead veterans’ welfare department has started testing an AI chatbot in the hope of making it easier for staff to access policy and compensation…
M365 portal buckling as demand for Copilot refunds soar
Microsoft is struggling to meet customer demand for refunds related to its Copilot AI agent add-on to M365 after announcing the offer early yesterday. “Customer…
Microsoft launches ‘superintelligence’ team – iTnews
Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical…
NAB hits milestone with tech role insourcing
NAB is continuing to reduce reliance on contractors in its technology function, while increasing cloud adoption and use of AI by its engineers, under an…