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Australia locks into Landsat with $449m

Australia will revamp a 45-year-old Alice Springs ground station and hire dozens of staff to support it over at least 15 years to ensure continued access to Earth observation...

AI is scaling both opportunity and risk at the ATO

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AI technologies have helped the tax office raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue, but are also giving adversaries new tools to launch cyber attacks and turbocharge...

100 mid-career researchers awarded Future Fellowships

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One hundred new research projects exploring areas like the critical metals in underwater volcanoes and bringing down the cost of green hydrogen have secured backing in the latest round...

No ‘measurable impact’: Female Founders grants grounded

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The federal government’s only program for female startup founders will not continue after internal analysis determined more than $35 million in direct grants and mentoring for almost one thousand...

Accenture hits $2.5b in tax office tech work

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The tax office will pay Accenture $45 million a year to manage its enterprise operations, app development, infrastructure and DevOps, pushing the tech services giant’s total work for the...

CSIRO’s Data61 braces for job losses, funding crunch

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Researchers at the CSIRO’s Data61 business unit are bracing for job losses and research roll-backs as a funding crunch claims dozens of roles elsewhere at the agency and ends...

Malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats

Posted on   |  by Bayu Anggorojati, Arif Perdana and Derry Wijaya
The internet, a vast and indispensable resource for modern society, has a darker side where malicious activities thrive. From identity theft to sophisticated malware attacks, cyber criminals keep coming...