Data centres’ use of electricity in Australia will increase more than seven-fold by 2050, new forecasting released on Wednesday shows, as proponents seek to position the digital infrastructure as...
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The Commonwealth Bank has paid a record $792,000 fine under Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) scheme for failing to enable data sharing on a small number of business accounts....
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On 18 October, the Woden Town parkrun in Canberra joined the national family of parkruns – free, weekly, timed 5km events that take place across Australia every Saturday morning....
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EU regulators launched an antitrust investigation into Meta Platforms on Thursday and may even temporarily halt its rollout of artificial intelligence features in its WhatsApp messenger that would block...
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Hackers need only a handful of malicious prompts or a relatively small number of documents inserted into training data to corrupt artificial intelligence models, according to research from global...
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French defence giant Thales has launched a new Canberra-based cybersecurity hub for federal government agencies and critical infrastructure operators, promising to isolate data breaches within minutes. The company opened...
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Advancing the ethics of artificial intelligence is still difficult for Ed Santow. Even as a former Human Rights Commissioner and co-founder of a technology ethics institute, these conversations are...
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US cloud, cyber and software firms have called on policymakers to unwind Australia’s data localisation laws and reconsider “sovereignty” goals, claiming the geo-bounding actually increases cybersecurity risks. AWS, Google...
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For decades, Australian innovation policy discourse has been organised around the valley of death, the gap where good ideas fail to become commercial products. This model, born in an...
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CyberCX will establish a pilot public cloud environment in a Pacific nation on behalf of the Australian government as Canberra looks for new ways to counter Beijing’s influence in...
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Berkshire Hathaway revealed a US$4.3 billion stake in Google parent Alphabet and further reduced its stake in Apple, detailing its equity portfolio for the last time before Warren Buffett...
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Data centre infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies has tripled its valuation to $6 billion in eight weeks after pulling in another $500 million from investors to build its ‘AI factories’...
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NSW Police only stopped using a facial recognition algorithm that it had used for more than a decade when the vendor pulled support, not because the force acted on...
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When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets US President Donald Trump on Monday, the visit is expected to seal major big tech investment deals on artificial intelligence (AI) and...