Author: Justin Hendry

Albanese raises deadly Optus outage with Singapore PM

Posted on   |  by Renju Jose
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus’s emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, in a bilateral meeting held...

‘Tell us once’ laws to sweep away data sharing barriers

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australians will be able to update their personal information across multiple federal government agencies in one go, rather than contact them individually, as part of a new bill introducing...

Treasury review avoids ‘hard issues’ on AI liability

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A Treasury review says Australia’s consumer laws are equipped to respond to many of the harms arising from artificial intelligence, and in some instances offer better protections than comparable...

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI

Posted on   |  by Max Cherney and Arsheeya Bajwa
AMD will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT creator...

Gig Guide: National science council gets two new members

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Two Australian scientists with distinguished careers in genetics and molecular biology have taken up a seat on the federal government’s peak science and technology advisory council. Professor Archa Fox...

Treat cybersecurity as a data problem or keep drowning

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Cybersecurity is now one of the defining challenges for government agencies, as they digitise services, move to the cloud and confront evolving compliance obligations.   Attacks are growing in scale...