Author: Joseph Brookes

Most NSW agencies deploying AI without policy

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Most NSW government agencies do not have dedicated AI policies in place, an audit shows, as the state rolls out more than 350 different AI tools in areas like...

Creaking state servers expose ‘crown jewels’ tech applications

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NSW and Victorian government agencies are running swathes of unsupported legacy infrastructure, at times without formal risk assessment and planning despite the systems housing so called “crown jewels” applications....

Storm damage: BoM apologises for website bungle

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The head of the Bureau of Meteorology has apologised for a bungled update to his bureau’s website after being hauled before the Environment minister to explain changes that stem...

Sydney silicon in chip giant’s quantum ‘Rosetta Stone’

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UNSW spinouts Silicon Quantum Computing and Diraq helped design the system architecture that will couple quantum processors with the electronic circuits of Nvidia in the next generation of supercomputers....

Chinese and Russian tech scrubbed from govt systems

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Federal agencies will be legally required to remove technology listed on a new government-wide “deny list” by the end of the month in response to increasingly complex threats of...

Robodebt tech reforms fade from focus

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The Albanese government has not completed promised reforms to automated decision-making by federal agencies that the Robodebt royal commission said were urgently needed more than two years ago. Despite...