Category: ITnews

Audit Office of NSW and Data61 explore AI for gov auditing
10
Dec
2025

Audit Office of NSW and Data61 explore AI for gov auditing

The Audit Office of New South Wales is about one month into a “multi-year partnership” with CSIRO’s Data61 to explore…

Services Australia may get powers to rein in data breach exposure
10
Dec
2025

Services Australia may get powers to rein in data breach exposure

Services Australia may be in line for new powers to force third-parties hit by data breaches involving government identifiers to…

Russia's FSB conducts ISP-level cyber espionage, Microsoft says
10
Dec
2025

Apple, Google send new round of cyber threat notifications to users

Apple and Google have sent a new round of cyber threat notifications to users around the world, announcing their latest…

Australia's social media ban takes effect in world first
10
Dec
2025

Australia’s social media ban takes effect in world first

Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok,…

Accenture to train 30,000 staff on Anthropic's Claude
10
Dec
2025

Accenture to train 30,000 staff on Anthropic’s Claude

 Accenture and Anthropic announced an expansion of their partnership through a new business group where around 30,000 of the consulting…

AEC taps EY for master data management platform
09
Dec
2025

AEC taps EY for master data management platform

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has contracted EY to stand up a cloud-based master data management platform to underpin the…

Macquarie Group unveils Dexd, its
09
Dec
2025

Macquarie Group unveils Dexd, its “developer experience daemon”

Macquarie Group has put a developer experience daemon on the laptop of every engineer to ensure they have a consistent…

TPG Telecom reveals potential new fatality linked to Samsung handset
09
Dec
2025

TPG Telecom reveals potential new fatality linked to Samsung handset

TPG Telecom has reported another potential triple zero call-related customer fatality linked to the use of a Samsung mobile handset…

CBA wants agents to initiate application modernisation
09
Dec
2025

CBA runs early test of “frontier” AWS AI agent

CBA has run an early non-production test of a ‘DevOps agent’ unveiled by AWS last week, which is marketed as…

IBM to buy Confluent in US$11bn deal
09
Dec
2025

IBM to buy Confluent in US$11bn deal

IBM will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at US$11 billion ($16.6 billion), ramping up its cloud-computing…

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones
08
Dec
2025

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones

Vocus is lobbying the government to more than double the number of submarine cable protection zones in Australia and to…

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use
08
Dec
2025

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use

Federal government departments and agencies will be pushed to use more cloud services from July 2026 under a new whole-of-government…