Author: Justin Hendry

Risk vs reward: ARC plans to get behind ‘bold thinking’

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The Australian Research Council will lift its risk appetite for innovative but unproven ideas that could lead to future research breakthroughs under a proposed overhaul of non-medical research grants....

Govt rejects mobile obligation monopoly fears

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Senior government officials have doused fears that a new policy to extend universal service obligations to mobile phones would further entrench Elon Musk’s Starlink service in Australia. Appearing before...

Mobile coverage pledge: The missing piece of the telco puzzle

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Labor has announced a new telecommunications policy that will provide Australians with access to outdoor mobile voice calls and SMS almost everywhere across Australia. The new Universal Outdoor Mobile...

ATO building AI models without specific governance policies

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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...

Australia bans Russian antivirus software on govt devices

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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....

‘We see an opening’: David Reilly readies quantum play

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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....

Gig Guide: NSW appoints its next cyber chief

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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....

The Aussie connection to Microsoft’s quantum leap

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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...