Anglicare Victoria secures its AI adoption
Anglicare Victoria is embracing the adoption of AI to support its community and care services work, with a mix of guardrails, usage guidelines, education and…
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ASD says prompt injection in AI cannot be fixed
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued new guidance aimed at enterprises, saying a central security weakness in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be resolved…
Aussie mobile telcos face ‘automatic’ customer compensation for outages
Australian telcos should have to meet mandatory reliability and performance standards and “automatically” compensate customers impacted by outages, a major review has recommended. A senate…
Foreign hackers targeted Colorado water systems in August
Foreign hackers targeted and manipulated equipment in two local Colorado water systems last month, a spokesperson for Colorado Governor Jared Polis said. The incidents occurred…
Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab
Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At…
Australia considers banning the use of smart glasses in government buildings
Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces due to privacy and security concerns, in what it said could be…
UK silence over demand for Apple data access is farcical, lawyer says
The British government’s refusal to confirm whether it has issued an order to bypass encryption to access customer data held by Apple has become farcical, a…
Optus may ban smart glasses in stores, offices
Key points Optus is discussing cyber security policies that could regulate or even ban smart glasses in its stores and offices. EGM security and risk…
Westpac spends US$12,000 in AI tokens on intranet migration
Key points Westpac migrated its internal intranet for $12,000 USD in AI tokens, versus a typical low seven-figure cost and about a year’s work. Chief…
Attackers use SQL injection emails to root Cisco gateways
Key points Cisco warns attackers are exploiting a previously unknown flaw, CVE-2026-76461, rated 9.8 out of 10.0, to run arbitrary commands as root on Secure…
City of Melbourne appoints acting CTIO
Key points Imka Seecharan has left City of Melbourne after about one year and eight months as chief technology and information officer. Chris Apostolou, who…
Anthropic signs first Australian data centre agreement
AI giant Anthropic signed its first data centre lease agreement in Australia, two people familiar with the deal said, capitalising on a favourable political environment…