AGL hits half-million milestone with passkey adoption
Key points AGL has reached 500,000 unique customer enrolments for passkeys since introducing them in December last year, lifting its overall adoption rate to 30.5…
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53% vs.19%: The budget divide separating AI leaders from everyone else
IDC research reveals that organizations achieving the strongest AI and business outcomes invest nearly three times more of their IT budgets in modernization than their…
Australia sanctions North Korean IT worker bosses and financiers
Key points Australia has sanctioned two North Korean individuals, Yu Pu Ung and Sim Hyon Sop, and two companies, Korea Mangyongdae Computer Technology Company and…
Relationships Australia SA uses AI agent to assess at-risk clients
Key points Relationships Australia SA is using AI agents to risk-assess clients and trigger safety checks during the five-to-six week wait for an appointment. A…
Suntory Oceania taps Databricks, Copilot Pro in AI drive
Key points Suntory Oceania is investing in Databricks and Copilot Pro while exploring native agentic options for its SAP core, digital and IT director Matt…
SUBCO brings in joint CIO and CISO
Key points SUBCO has appointed Andrew Bacon as its joint chief information officer and chief information security officer. Bacon joined SUBCO from Macquarie Group, where…
Critical flaws strike PHP as disclosure embargo is broken
Key points PHP maintainers are urging users to prepare for patches addressing two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, rated 9.2 out of 10 for severity.…
Cloudflare warns fixing botched eMudhra certs goes beyond browsers
Key points Weak keys in eight eMudhra intermediate certificates, generated in an April 2025 key ceremony, allowed attackers to forge certificates for any domain. Browsers…
Salesforce snaps up Braze – iTnews
Salesforce is buying Braze in a deal valued at about $5.66 billion ($8 billion), bolstering its AI push with tools that let brands send personalised…
Optus chasing “near real-time” data as regulatory pressure looms
Key points Optus is using Confluent’s Oracle CDC and LogMiner with Kafka to pull 400 data tables into its Databricks analytics platform in near real-time.…
Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing
An ex-OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the AI company appears to have received considerable support from…
Top hyperscalers likely to have more AI-linked debt than now known
S&P Global estimates the world’s biggest tech firms are likely to have more AI-linked liabilities than currently known, although its top analyst for the sector…