Mystery Optus mobile glitch impacts over 100,000 users
Optus is still trying to determine the cause of a mobile service outage that is understood to have impacted over 100,000 customers. An Optus spokesperson…
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FIIG penalised $2.5m for cyber security failures
Australia’s securities and investment commission (ASIC) has succeeded in its application for FIIG Securities to be penalised for a large-scale data breach in 2023 that…
Telstra asks Treasury to cap spectrum prices at $3.9 billion
Telstra has asked the federal government to cap the price of spectrum licence renewals at $3.9 billion sector-wide after accusing the communications regulator of overvaluing…
Errant security certificate behind six-hour Senate web service outage
An expired security certificate caused a six-hour outage to the real-time web service used by parliamentarians to track senate activities. The Department of Parliamentary Services…
Under malware threat, runaway AI agent project OpenClaw turns to Google’s VirusTotal
The OpenClaw autonomous artificial intelligence agent project has teamed up with Google’s VirusTotal malware scanning service, following the discovery of malicious code in the bot…
Anthropic buys Super Bowl ads to slap OpenAI for selling ads in ChatGPT
Anthropic is spending millions of dollars to air commercials during the National Football League championship game to slam rival OpenAI for its plan to sell…
nib’s group CIO of 13 years leaves
nib’s long-time group chief information officer Brendan Mills has left the health insurer, with technology duties falling to a similarly long-tenured leader on an interim…
REA Group brings conversational AI search to realestate.com.au
REA Group has started offering conversational search capability on its flagship website realestate.com.au after expanding natural language search to half of the site’s visitors. The…
REA Group brings conversational AI search realestate.com.au
REA Group has started offering conversational search capability on its flagship website realestate.com.au after expanding natural language search to half of the site’s visitors. The…
Bunnings facial recognition privacy breach ruling partially reversed
Bunnings has been partially successful in setting aside a decision by the nation’s privacy watchdog that its use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in its…
Starlink plots phone, more internet services
With a SpaceX IPO expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including…
Telstra says cost trade-offs will follow if spectrum license obligations stick
Telstra says it will face “tough trade-offs” between containing costs and investing in mobile infrastructure if it’s forced to pay to fill regional service coverage…