Fashion’s AI era: face swaps and digital clones
AI-generated fashion models present a tantalising opportunity for brands: the ability to create lifelike images for their retail websites while cutting costs by 90 percent…
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Southern Cross Credit Union asks AI agent to handle account balance requests
Key points Southern Cross Credit Union has deployed an AI agent called Nova to handle inbound calls from customers seeking account balances. Built in six…
Fixes for Google Brotli flaw arrive for Microsoft .NET, PHP and Linux
Key points Microsoft and the PHP project have released fixes for the Google Brotli decoder flaw, CVE-2026-111497, after Node.js patched it last week. Microsoft rates…
Anthropic’s soaring sales, steep losses put AI frenzy to IPO test
Anthropic has taken a big step closer to a potentially record-breaking IPO, even as it revealed steep losses and security concerns that could test investors’…
Parliamentary Information and Cyber Resilience upgrade has $40m budget
Key points The Parliamentary Information and Cyber Resilience project has a budget of $40 million over four years, Nicola Hinder revealed at senate estimates after…
New IDC research reveals the real AI readiness gap: It’s not models, it’s data
Australian organisations are pouring investment into AI. Boards are approving budgets, IT teams are piloting new models, and business units are racing to embed AI…
IAG’s SAP migration brings process and data into sharp focus
Key points IAG shifted its SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration approach to focus on fixing finance processes and data first, with an eye on future…
US has for years asked Musk to turn Starlink on or off in various countries
Well before the throttling of Ukraine’s military access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to…
Node2Shell flaw embedded in apps and dev tools far beyond Node.js
The recently publicised high severity vulnerability in a popular Google-developed compression library reaches well beyond the open source Node.js JavaScript runtime, an Australian security researcher…
Russia-linked hackers use decentralised network in Ukraine cyberattack
Russia-linked hackers used the volunteer-run Yggdrasil network to conceal communications during an attack on a Ukrainian grain logistics company, marking the first documented use of…
India’s eMudhra exits website security business
Digital security firm eMudhra is exiting its global business of issuing security certificates for websites including India’s tax portal after major browser makers blocked them…
Meta sued in Australian class action
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an Australian court against Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram that alleges the social media platforms exposed children to…