Vic Police uses AI to reformat community-submitted crime reports
Victoria Police has incorporated generative AI into a self-service non-urgent crime reporting tool to summarise information in a way that frontline officers are accustomed to…
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Romania arrests 13 in phishing scam targeting British tax office
Thirteen people have been arrested in Romania after phishing attacks against Britain’s tax office, with suspected stolen data being used to allegedly obtain millions of…
UK police arrest four over cyberattacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
Four people under 21 have been arrested as part of a police investigation into cyberattacks that disrupted the operations of UK retailers Marks & Spencer,…
CBA using facial recognition logins to verify disputed payments
CBA is using facial recognition logins to its banking app to determine whether customers who dispute a transaction did in fact authorise the payment. The…
Australia takes another step toward a central bank digital currency
Australia’s central bank said on Thursday it was taking another major step toward a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a range of industry…
Viva Energy completes greenfield HR setup in time for Coles cutover
Viva Energy has gone live with a greenfield HR and payroll system powered by Dayforce, enabling it to move off systems run by Coles inside…
Telstra to axe 550 roles including in enterprise business
Telstra plans to lay off 550 employees as part of an ongoing overhaul of its enterprise business and structural changes across other parts of the…
Powercor to tap into agentic AI across the organisation
Victorian electricity distributor Powercor is incorporating multiple AI agents into processes to improve access to information and the work of its contact centre and field…
Microsoft racks up over US$500 million in AI savings
Microsoft saved more than US$500 million ($765 million) in its call centres alone last year by using artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported. The tech giant…
Nvidia-backed Perplexity launches AI-powered browser
Nvidia-backed Perplexity AI has launched Comet, a new web browser with AI-powered search capabilities, as the startup looks to challenge the dominance of market leader…
Telstra to axe 550 roles in enterprise business
Telstra plans to lay off 550 employees as part of an ongoing overhaul of its enterprise business and structural changes across other parts of the…
Microsoft to ‘co-invest’ in Defence’s Azure adoption
Microsoft is setting up a co-investment program with Defence that will see the department receive financial support for unspecified “cloud adoption and digital transformation” activities.…