Author: Justin Hendry

Senate committee proposes new Big Tech regulatory body

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A digital platforms coordination body should be created by the federal government to address competition concerns presented by Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, a...

The Australians building biological data centre tech

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
“In our lab in Melbourne, we’re building the world’s first neural data centre,” explains Hon Weng Chong, whose fusion of biological computing with traditional tech has caught Amazon’s eye...

A year of ChatGPT: 5 ways the AI marvel has changed the world

Posted on   |  by Professor Toby Walsh
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands of 100 million...

Salesforce pricing leaked to Microsoft in first NDIS CRM tender

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Confidential Salesforce pricing information was accidentally leaked to Microsoft in a 2019 tender for the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s new customer relationship management system, documents reveal. The blunder forced...

Australia races ahead with defence export control reforms

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government is racing ahead with controversial reforms to export controls that will introduce a “licence-free environment” for technology sharing between AUKUS partners at the expense of local...

Queensland passes mandatory data breach notice laws

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Queensland has become only the second state to legislate a mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities, as an almost identical scheme comes into effect in New...

Data of 11,000 people stolen in NDIS breach

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The records of 11,000 National Disability Insurance Scheme participants and other related parties have been compromised in a data heist from inside the National Disability Insurance Agency. A Sydney-based...

All hail the ‘reinvention of manufacturing at nanoscale’

Posted on   |  by Nicole Bittar
Nanotechnology continues to take great strides in frontier scientific research.  Advances in photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials and intelligent image recognition have increased the application value to advanced information and communication...

Gallagher pulls back ‘naïve’ $344m GovERP project

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has abandoned its massive enterprise resource planning system consolidation project known as GovERP in favour of a new approach that promises greater autonomy for agencies. The...