Australia’s digital uplift has delivered a decade of economic growth, a new report shows, but tech firms are only partly responsible for the boom and have grown increasingly vulnerable...
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Britain’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into Photoshop maker Adobe to examine whether its early cancellation fees were unfair and misleading, the watchdog said on Thursday (Friday AEDT)....
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New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to roll out digital birth certificates for young people aged 16 to 21, enabling them to store the document on...
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One-fifth of Australian teenagers under 16 were still using social media two months after the country banned platforms from allowing minors, industry data showed, raising questions about the effectiveness...
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Oracle’s Mike Sicilia is the latest software CEO to wade in to the debate on whether artificial intelligence tools that heavily automate human tasks will mean the demise of...
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Atlassian plans to lay off around 10 per cent of its workforce, or 1,600 employees, to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales. Shares of the enterprise software company...
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The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has invested $200 million into ASX-listed data centre outfit Macquarie Technology Group to build out the sovereign tech stack and data infrastructure needed by...
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Anthropic is set to open its Australian office in Sydney within weeks, as the OpenAI rival accelerates its push into the Asia-Pacific region amid surging demand for its Claude...
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Anthropic has filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab’s high-stakes battle with the US military over...
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Australians were downloading virtual private networks (VPNs) in droves, while one of the world’s largest pornography distributors said it was blocking users as the country rolled out sweeping online...
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NSW’s status as a top destination for data centre investment gives it room to set tougher standards on power and water use than rival states, Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says....
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Google will expand billing options and cut developer fees on Android, in a major policy overhaul that helped resolve its long-running dispute with Epic Games and bring back the...
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Firmus Technologies has landed a multi-billion dollar contract with a unnamed hyperscale customer for dedicated AI infrastructure at its Project Southgate facility in Melbourne. The long-term deal with what...
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Industry minister Tim Ayres quietly abandoned his predecessor’s search for expert AI advisers last August after the government spent more than $188,000 on a 15 month recruitment process. Newly...