Health expands cloud footprint with $32m Azure deal
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is scaling up its cloud capabilities with a $32 million contract for Microsoft Azure services. The three-year deal…
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“ReVault” firmware flaws allow persistent access in Dell laptops
Researchers at Cisco’s Talos Intelligence have uncovered a vulnerability chain in security hardware used by IT maker Dell, which can be used by attackers to…
NSW greenlights central database for compromised IDs
NSW is establishing a centralised database of compromised identification documents, as it formally enshrines the state’s ID Support function as the key authority in tackling…
Job seekers had payments cancelled unlawfully by gov IT system
A “predominantly automated” system froze job seekers’ payments incorrectly for over two years because it wasn’t updated to reflect a change in legislation, a review…
Cloudflare and Perplexity slug it out over alleged AI bot block evasion
Is it deceptive, standards-violating content scraping or a security and internet infrastructure company on a crusade against artificial intelligence startups? That question has arisen after…
AI coding threatens to make common security flaw more prevalent
The use of artificial intelligence for development is threatening to make a specific type of web application flaw, insecure direct object references (IDORs), far more common,…
Google publishes 20 new vulnerabilities found by its Big Sleep AI
Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence-powered Big Sleep system has found further vulnerabilities in popular software, as part of the company’s push towards automated security research. Vice…
Bendigo Bank acting CIO announces departure
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank acting chief information officer Nathalie Moss has announced her exit from the company after a year in the role. Nathalie Moss…
NBN Co signs on to Amazon’s Project Kuiper as Sky Muster replacement
NBN Co will offer users in its Sky Muster footprint an upgrade path to low earth orbit satellite services powered by Amazon Kuiper sometime before…
Delta Air assures US lawmakers it will not personalise fares using AI
Delta Air Lines has said it will not use artificial intelligence to set personalised ticket prices for passengers after facing sharp criticism from US lawmakers…
Google agrees to curb power use for AI data centres
Google has signed agreements with two US electric utilities to reduce its AI data centre power consumption during times of surging demand on the grid…
David Jones leans on Snowflake for de-merger modernisation
David Jones is using Snowflake as a data integration fabric to accelerate its digital transformation following its de-merger from South Africa’s Woolworths Holdings two years…