The Australian Taxation Office is building and deploying AI models in-house without centralised policies and guidance for public servants, exposing it to legal and ethical risks, the auditor-general has...
The Australian government will ban antivirus software from Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky on all its devices and systems, claiming it poses an “unacceptable security risk” to networks and data....
Six months after Microsoft ended its quantum research efforts in Australia, the renowned Australian physicists who led the work are preparing to launch a local company with global reach....
The New South Wales government has tapped Sydney Metro enterprise security leader Marie Patane to take over the challenging role of securing the state’s critical systems and data holdings....
Policing hacking powers have helped thwart botnet attacks involving thousands of hijacked devices, preventing future crimes at scale, according to the Australian Federal Police. The example was offered up...
Australian research into topoconductors was crucial to the development of a new type of chip that Microsoft says makes useful quantum computers a reality “in years, not decades”. The...
Controversial laws allowing police to modify or delete the data in the online accounts of criminals should be axed, according to lawyers, who argue the measures give authorities powers...
Australia’s top science body is ramping up pressure on the federal government to commit to a multi-billion dollar, decade-long overhaul of the country’s “oversubscribed” and near end-of-life supercomputers. The...
Cloud and networking policies used to help secure the federal government’s vast IT estate will be consolidated as part of a new joined-up framework being developed by the Department...
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has boosted its stake in Canberra Data Centres, the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government, in a transaction that values the...