Author: Justin Hendry

DTA seals new Microsoft mega-deal on promise of cost certainty

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has inked a new mega-deal with tech giant Microsoft, promising greater savings for agencies after a strategic review found discounts were “difficult to quantify”. The Digital...

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
The Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies’ handling of foreigners’ data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable that such efforts...

Defence and DroneShield join forces on counter-drone research

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Homegrown drone detection firm DroneShield will share vital counter-drone research with Australian defence scientists under a new three-year collaborative research agreement. Defence Science and Technology Group inked the partnership...

WiseTech to cut 2,000 jobs amid AI-led revamp

Posted on   |  by Sameer Manekar
Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to lay off about 2,000 people over the next two years, in what could mark one of the largest artificial intelligence-related workforce...

Toby Walsh: Act now on AI or repeat social media mistakes

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
One of Australia’s leading AI researchers will use a major address on Wednesday to warn the country is “dangerously unprepared” to capture the upside of artificial intelligence or to...

Govt moves to review triple zero laws after deadly outages

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will review the laws underpinning Australia’s triple zero net, more than two years after a catastrophic Optus outage first exposed gaps in the emergency call system....