Finance minister Katy Gallagher’s independent board of top technology and ethics advisers met on Thursday after it emerged publicly that an OpenAI agent had breached a Medicare data portal....
Cyber Security
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The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to work together to manage...
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will announce a new AI defence partnership between Britain and the United States on Tuesday, part of a push for nations to use the...
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The heads of leading US AI labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to slow the technology’s development, warning it could soon improve on...
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Australia’s peak small business council has urged Canberra to revive its Cyber Wardens training program under the second stage of the national cybersecurity plan and called for more support...
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A badly needed cybersecurity uplift for Australia’s private sector should begin with new standards that focus on mid-sized firms and tech service providers, the Tech Council of Australia says....
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Australian organisations now have access to a free government tool to classify and label the data they hold to ensure appropriate protections are in place and they can follow...
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A pilot of Australia’s voluntary labelling scheme for consumer-grade smart devices will launch with a small group of appliance, router and smart lock makers, ahead of a planned national...
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As the Department of Home Affairs’ head of national security, Hamish Hansford has access to “exquisite” intelligence with which to identify and better understand worst-case security scenarios. This is...
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The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t notice until well after the threat was contained and the...
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US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official...
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Federal agencies have been directed to draw up plans to retire the encryption standards underpinning their systems, as quantum computers powerful enough to break public key cryptography edge closer...
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Prior to taking up her current position as Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lieutenant-General Michelle McGuinness worked in a Five Eyes role, embedded within the US Defense Intelligence Agency....
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Data centres and cloud services would no longer be captured under Australia’s critical infrastructure laws based on their customers or the data they handle under a major shake-up of...