CBA’s DevOps agent is helping on-call engineers on 2am wake-up duty
The Commonwealth Bank is having an AWS ‘frontier’ AI agent work simultaneously alongside its engineers who are on on-call support rotation with the express aim…
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US to invest in IBM, other quantum computing firms
The Trump administration will take US$2 billion ($2.8 billion) in equity stakes across nine quantum-computing companies, including a new IBM venture, in a major push…
PsiQuantum to build computer at Moreton Bay
PsiQuantum, the startup backed by the Queensland and federal governments, will no longer base its planned quantum computer near Brisbane Airport, shifting instead to Moreton…
CBA looks to AI for workforce planning
The Commonwealth Bank has started using AI in its employee surveys to analyse and interpret feedback from its more than 51,000 staff. Culture and people…
GitHub compromised, allegedly by TeamPCP
Microsoft-owned web-based code hosting and collaboration platform GitHub has confirmed that it has been compromised, following reports that the TeamPCP hacking group had successfully attacked…
Mini Shai-Hulud worm injects disk wiper into Microsoft Azure PyPI package
Supply chain attacks with a Dune sci-fi saga branding continue to spread across the open-source ecosystem, with a Microsoft package being among the latest target…
Singtel open to selling “meaningful minority stake” in Optus
Singtel is open to adding a local partner to its Optus operation in exchange for equity in the carrier. The Singtel Group, Optus’ owner, announced…
NT government to spend $5m on payroll automation
The Northern Territory government is embarking on a $5 million payroll automation program, comprising enhancements to its current mainframe-based HR system and “complementary solutions”. The…
Fears of unfettered hacking spurred by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model likely ‘overstated’
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in…
Telcos unable to overturn $7.3bn bill to renew mobile spectrum
Telstra, Optus, TPG and NBN Co will pay just over $7.3 billion to keep expiring mobile and wireless spectrum licenses after the sector’s efforts to…
AustralianSuper hires its first head of AI and automation
AustralianSuper has appointed Microsoft A/NZ’s current national chief technology officer Sarah Carney as its inaugural head of artificial intelligence and automation. Carney will step into…
Event Cinemas owner EVT to make network software-defined
Entertainment and travel group EVT has started moving to software-defined networking in a bid to boost its data capacity and reduce its reliance on physical…