Author: Justin Hendry

Privacy watchdog pushes back on cyber enforcement restraints

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Proposed legal protections for businesses that share information with the government cyber responders during an attack should not stand in the way of future enforcement action by regulators, according...

Sophisticated investor overhaul: Angels sound the alarm

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Angel investors and venture capital firms are warning that proposed changes that will make it harder to qualify as a “sophisticated” investor will reduce funding for early-stage startups at...

Former Qld Premier, Treasurer met with PsiQuantum

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US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum met with former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in the same month that a secret quantum computing EoI was issued by the federal government last...

SA to trial locally-made Google laptops in schools

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Chromebook laptops will be assembled in Australia for the first time under a new deal between Google and Adelaide-based gaming PC manufacturer Allied Corporation to supply the computers to...

How Broken Hill became a digital oasis in the outback

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Turning an ageing council website into a beacon of accessibility set a new standard for inclusivity in remote Australia, while unlocking a revenue success story.   Broken Hill is geographically...

Agencies flock to use Microsoft Copilot in APS trial

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Thousands of public servants at dozens of federal departments and agencies will become the first to gain access to Microsoft Copilot as part of a six-month trial of the...

Online voting: NSW gets the ball rolling on iVote 2.0

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The revival of internet voting for blind and low vision voters in New South Wales is underway, with the government agency in charge of state elections now scouring the...

Services Australia embarks on massive networking reset

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Services Australia will replace the network that connects its workforce for the first time in more than a decade in response to the growth in cloud-based tools and the...

Most federal govt agencies adopting AI without a policy

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More than half of all federal government agencies using artificial intelligence last year adopted the technology without creating policies to govern its use, raising fresh concerns about the system...