Author: Justin Hendry

DTA flags AI ‘PoC hell’ as emerging APS risk

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government agencies may have barely scratched the surface with artificial intelligence, but those that have are increasingly finding themselves trapped in a cycle of endless proof of concept...

Accenture acquires Australian cyber outfit CyberCX

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
CyberCX, one of Australia’s largest privately-owned cybersecurity firms, will be acquired by tech consulting giant Accenture less than six years after it formed to challenge the US behemoths. Subject...

‘Privacy washing’: Age assurance trial adviser speaks out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A privacy expert who advised on Australia’s age assurance technology trial has broken ranks to raise serious concerns about the methodology and conclusions, casting further doubt on the exercise....

Trump orders easing of commercial spaceflight regulations

Posted on   |  by Jasper Ward, Ismail Shakil and Steve Gorman
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches, a move that would benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other private...

Canberra urged to re-examine digital government fund

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia has been urged by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to set up one or more investment funds to scale up digital government projects and help de-risk...

CDC Data Centres heads west for AUKUS boom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
CDC Data Centres is set to build its next data centre campus in Western Australia, as it eyes growing demand for high-density compute and artificial intelligence capabilities through the...

Perplexity makes bold $53bn bid for Google’s Chrome

Posted on   |  by Akash Sriram
Perplexity AI made a US$34.5 billion (A$52.8 billion) unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet’s Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for...

Federal Court rules against Apple, Google in landmark case

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A Federal Court judge found the smartphone app stores of Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct in Australia, in a partial victory for Fortnite game developer Epic Games...

Privacy commissioner hits back at PC’s privacy retreat

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s privacy commissioner says walking back long-overdue privacy reforms and loosening existing laws after a years-long push to strengthen them would be like “throwing out the baby with the...