ACMA proposes digital ID for prepaid mobile SIM verification
Australian telcos could soon accept Digital ID to verify the identity of prepaid mobile phone users under a proposal floated by the Australian Communications Media Authority. If…
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Alleged Scattered Spider hacker surrenders to US police
Another alleged affiliate of the high-profile Scattered Spider network of cybercriminals has surrendered himself to police in Las Vegas. The unnamed male teenager faces criminal…
Nvidia to invest US$100 billion in OpenAI
Nvidia will invest up to US$100 billion ($151 billion) in OpenAI and supply it with data centre chips, marking a tie-up between two of the…
Oracle names insiders as co-CEOs
Oracle has named insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz, who was instrumental in shaping the company’s cloud strategy and thrusting…
CBA builds Lumos, an AI-driven accelerator to prepare applications for cloud
CBA has built a multi-agent workflow that covers every step required to prepare an application for migration to the cloud, enabling the bank to move…
NSW Education AI tool set to launch for students from October
All NSW public school students from Year 5 onwards will gain access to the state’s ChatGPT-style platform, NSWEduChat, from October 14, marking the first system-wide…
Optus accused of low-effort, “inaccurate” outage notifications
Optus initially characterised its Triple Zero outage in emails to government officials on Thursday afternoon as impacting just 10 calls, with the regulator labelling communication…
Optus initiates change freeze on “network system”
Optus CEO Stephen Rue has placed “an immediate halt to further changes in our network system”, pending a review and updates to its change processes.…
H-1B visa crackdown upends Indian IT industry’s playbook
India’s $283 billion ($429 billion) information technology sector will have to overhaul its decades-old strategy of rotating skilled talent into US projects following US President…
Optus’ Triple Zero failure “unlikely” to have contributed to baby’s death
An Optus network failure is now considered “unlikely” to have “contributed” to the death of an eight-week-old baby in South Australia, the state’s policy agency…
European airports snarled by cyberattack
A cyberattack at a provider of check-in and boarding systems disrupted operations on Saturday at several major European airports including London’s Heathrow, the continent’s busiest,…
Optus firewall upgrade behind 13-hour Triple Zero outage
Optus CEO Stephen Rue said that a “regular” firewall upgrade at 12.30am on Thursday caused Triple Zero calls on the network to fail for 13…