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…
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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…
Optus network failure impacts Triple Zero calls
Optus has revealed a network failure impacted its ability to carry Triple Zero calls in three states and territories on Thursday, with at least three…
Ramsay Health Care under new tech leadership from November
Ramsay Health Care will have a new technology and digital leader from November, with high-profile executive Dr Rachna Gandhi confirmed to have left the organisation.…
Google adds Gemini to Chrome browser after avoiding antitrust breakup
Google will integrate Gemini into its Chrome browser for users in the US just weeks after a federal judge spared the company from a forced…
University of Sydney hunts for permanent CISO
The University of Sydney has kicked off recruitment for a permanent chief information security officer following the departure of Steven Bennett earlier this year. Since Bennett’s…
Actor auth tokens gave Global Admin access across Azure Entra ID tenants
A Dutch security researcher has published an indepth analysis of a critical vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to compromise every Microsoft Entra ID tenant…