Starbucks taps Amazon exec as new CTO
Starbucks has appointed Anand Varadarajan as its new chief technology officer, effective January 19, as CEO Brian Niccol pushes a tech revamp in stores to…
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UK government was hacked in October, minister confirms
LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – British trade department minister Chris Bryant said the government had been hacked in October, partly confirming a report in The…
NSW Health clinicians “normalise” bypass of cyber security controls
Clinicians at local health districts in NSW routinely dodge cyber security controls, saving data to their own devices and staying logged in on shared computers…
Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery
Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production…
CASA exploring AI for digital asset operations
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is exploring ways to introduce AI capability for the management its digital assets. The authority has called on technology…
NBN Co’s 2Gbps services are too fast for ACCC to monitor
NBN Co’s new 2Gbps residential internet plans are too fast to be monitored with SamKnows boxes for the competition watchdog’s speed testing program. Image credit:…
Optus review uncovers 40-60 second delay with emergency calling camp-on
An investigation into the Optus triple zero outage has revealed it can take up to a minute for an emergency call to be re-routed over…
Google aims to make its TPUs better at running PyTorch
Google is working on a new initiative to make its artificial intelligence chips better at running PyTorch, the world’s most widely used AI software framework,…
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing…
Coursera to buy rival Udemy
Online education platform Coursera said it would buy rival Udemy in an all-stock deal, valuing the combined company at US$2.5 billion ($3.8 billion), as the…
ATO, AFP, AER and Veterans’ Affairs get IT modernisation funds
The Australian Taxation Office, Federal Police, the Energy Regulator and Veterans’ Affairs have all secured IT upgrade funding in the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook.…
Gov backs its own AI adoption with $225m
The federal government will invest $225 million into AI for its own use over the next four years, largely via the GovAI service and enablement…