nib ends search for permanent technology leader
Health insurer nib has named former ING Australia and BT Financial Group chief information officer (CIO) Linda Da Silva as its permanent technology leader. The ASX-listed…
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Optus’ 13-hour outage in 2025 lands it back in court
An Optus outage that saw triple zero calls fail to connect and linked to two deaths is set to land the telco in court. The…
Singtel confirms talks to sell Optus stake
Singtel has confirmed it is shopping a stake in its Australian subsidiary Optus after reports indicated around one-third of the telco may be up for…
Fed gov boosts GovAI with models from Google, Nvidia and more
The Department of Finance has materially expanded the number of AI models that can be sourced through its whole-of-government service GovAI. The service has notably…
REA Group outs Launchpad, a platform engineering capability
REA Group is building a central platform engineering group and capability it is calling Launchpad, with a goal to get its product and delivery teams…
Visa to lay off 2600 staff
Visa plans to cut seven percent of its workforce, or about 2600 jobs, a company spokesperson said, as the payments processor seeks to become more…
Okta details ‘Work Panel’, a turnkey SaaS platform for vishing crews
Identity provider Okta’s Threat Intelligence said it has obtained an inside look at a new criminal operator console that packages everything a voice-phishing crew needs…
OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack mixed technical brilliance with incoherent noise
OpenAI’s model benchmarking exercise that led to its agents hacking machine learning platform Hugging Face was described by the artificial intelligence company as an “unprecedented…
Fortescue’s quiet AI transformation – iTnews
Iron ore producer Fortescue has revealed that it’s currently in the midst of an AI transformation ingesting decades of historical data into models, letting it…
Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a days-long hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t notice until well after the threat…
IAG turns to OpenAI Presence for faster disaster claims response
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) will “explore” whether customer-facing voice agent technology by OpenAI can help speed up its responsiveness to weather and disaster related claims.…
ASD to critical infrastructure ops: be ready to isolate systems for three months
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released detailed technical guidance instructing critical infrastructure operators on how to fully separate operational technology and “vital enabling” systems…