Sportsbet recruits ‘security champions’ in shift-left strategy
Sportsbet has stood up a ‘security champions’ program, recruiting 42 senior staff to act as security ambassadors, asking questions of project teams and performing threat…
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Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors’ copyright lawsuit
A US federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic’s use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under…
Australian eSafety commissioner and YouTube spar
Australia’s internet watchdog and YouTube exchanged barbs after the regulator urged the government to reverse a planned exemption for the Alphabet-owned video-sharing platform from its…
Insurer Aflac investigating possible data leak
Health and life insurer Aflac said it is investigating a breach on its US network that may have exposed customers’ personal information, making it the…
AT&T’s US$177m data breach settlement wins US court approval
A US judge granted preliminary approval to a US$177 million ($273 million) settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal…
TAFE NSW, NESA land tech funding in state budget
TAFE NSW and the NSW Education Standards Authority join NSW Police as big winners of technology-related funding in this year’s state budget. The state government…
Qld tables $1 billion for major whole-of-government tech overhaul
The Queensland Government is to spend $1 billion to overhaul its technology delivery, aiming to unify IT investments and systems across 19 departments. The program will…
NAB brings Pete Steel into new digital, data and AI exec role
NAB has named Pete Steel as its group executive for digital, data and artificial intelligence, which includes oversight of the digital-only ubank. Pete Steel (Image…
WhatsApp banned on US House of Representatives devices
Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to all House staff. The…
Norths Collective marketing chief to leave in August
Norths Collective’s chief marketing and innovation officer Robert Lopez is stepping away from the role after over 13 years. Lopez announced his planned departure from the…
SA Water plans ‘once-in-a-generation’ core technology uplift
SA Water is embarking on a multi-year IT transformation program focused on redesigning and modernising its core systems. Elise Vervetjes (SA Water) Known as the…
How NAB unwound Teradata’s ‘tentacles’ to decommission it
NAB has detailed its 2023 Teradata decommissioning publicly for the first time, revealing how the data team rebuffed pressure to build a ‘like’ replacement, and…