AEC tasks Accenture with $30m election donation system
The Australian Electoral Commission will use Accenture to build and deliver a new technology system to implement election donation laws that passed parliament early last…
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Singapore to invest over $1.1 billion in public AI research
The Singapore government will invest over S$1 billion ($1.14 billion) in public artificial intelligence research through 2030 to strengthen the nation’s capabilities and global competitiveness.…
‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’ the AI mantra in Davos
Biting cold, political tensions and doubts about artificial intelligence did nothing to curb the enthusiasm of business leaders in Davos over technology’s ability to create…
Fix out for remotely exploited Cisco enterprise UC suite bug
Patches are available for a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s unified communications (UC) products, following detection of the bug being exploited by attackers in the wild.…
Comms Department queries Telstra over outback LEOsat outages
The federal government has started examining the performance of around 200 Telstra-supplied small cell mobile base stations providing service to remote communities using LEOsat services…
Fintech Airwallex to be audited by AUSTRAC
Australia’s financial crime watchdog has ordered an audit of payment platform Airwallex for suspected anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance failures. The Australian Transaction Reports…
Apple to revamp Siri as a built-in chatbot
Apple plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported. The chatbot,…
OAIC calls on federal agencies to be transparent on ADM use
The Australian Office of the Information Commissioner (OAIC) says that lack of disclosure around use of automated decision-making (ADM) systems across government agencies is putting…
APRA to modernise data stack with Databricks on Azure
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is set to modernise its data stack and governance architecture, underpinned by a new platform built with Databricks on…
Bezos’ Blue Origin to deploy enterprise-grade LEOsat network
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has announced a plan to deploy 5408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centres,…
Eightfold sued for helping companies secretly score job seekers
Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for…
ACMA ponders exemptions from new outage register rules
The federal government may exempt some telcos from rules requiring them to maintain service outage registers, as ordered by communications minister Anika Wells late last…