The NSW Electoral Commission will be forced to “pare back” its systems and delay the reintroduction of digital voting after three funding proposals were knocked back by the state...
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Defence will mostly phase out its legacy IT systems by 2027 under a new digital strategy that will also see the department adopt a cloud-only approach. The three-year strategy...
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Drone traffic will be monitored through a long-awaited flight management system from end of next year, as Airservices Australia gets to work rolling out the new capability. The federal...
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A long-sought digital traveller declaration system being trialled by Qantas and the Australian Border Force will be expanded to other airlines and cruise ships under an iterative, user focused...
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A new register designed to block SMS messages from scammers that spoof legitimate senders will be rolled out across the economy after enabling legislation passed through federal Parliament. But...
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A Bretton Woods-like system for overseeing the takedown of harmful digital online content could fill the gap if the United States fails to crack down on the social media...
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The million-dollar question about the return on investment of cybersecurity and generative AI (GenAI) for manufacturing SMEs’ may finally flicker with an answer on the APAC horizon. “’If we...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog will not probe facial recognition company Clearview AI again despite remaining questions over whether it failed to comply with orders issued to it following breaches of...
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Misogynistic tactics, including deepfake pornography, are being weaponised in elections to discredit women in power and create discord, according to global disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz. “Over 10 per cent...
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Eight months into the leadership role at Services Australia, David Hazlehurst says the agency doesn’t need to be at “nosebleed cutting edge” of AI innovation when successful practices can...
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Australia’s corporate regulator is suing the ASX over its bungled Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) replacement project, alleging it misled the market by announcing the project was on...
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The federal government’s new Trust Exchange will allow digital credentials to be stored in any digital wallet, replacing an earlier plan to bring drivers licences to the myGov platform....
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Australia’s competition watchdog has uncovered another secret deal for Google search engine exclusivity on Android devices, this time with the country’s third biggest telco TPG. TPG has agreed to...
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Australia and Vietnam are deepening their AgTech innovation ties through $1.45 million in grants for three new university and Vietnamese government collaborations. Funded through the CSIRO-managed Aus4Innovation Program, the...