A new research centre focused on AI-powered law enforcement initiatives has been set up by the Australian Federal Police and Monash University. The AI for Law Enforcement and Community...
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IBM has secured almost $900 million in federal work through its renewed whole-of-government sourcing agreement in less than nine months, with a new mainframe at the Tax Office pushing...
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A bill improving the technology neutrality of Australia’s corporate law, including allowing electronic signatures and virtual meetings, has passed both houses of Parliament with bipartisan support. But the government...
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Two of Sydney’s most promising quantum startups are teaming up on multi-million dollar research projects to suppress errors and increase commercial adoption of the promising technology. On Tuesday, quantum...
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A Senate committee has rejected legislation that would regulate cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia due to concerns over the operation of the reforms, despite supporting the consumer protections that such...
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The government’s Diversity in STEM Review is striving not just for gender equity but for a re-think of what STEM means by integrating First Nations thinking with the institutionalised...
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A bottom-up approach to AI ethics should be adopted across the Australian government, according to an expert adviser to the Biden Administration, who says public servants must be empowered...
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In the absence of standardised reporting and regulatory frameworks for measuring and reducing carbon emissions resulting from large data centre operations, Australian sovereign cloud provider Vault Cloud has developed...
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As many as 300,000 company directors are operating without a mandated digital identification, in breach of a new scheme designed to crack down on illegal phoenix activity. The non-compliance...
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Silentium Defence is a passive radar deep tech startup spun-out of the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) in 2017, the first tech company to spin-out from Defence in...
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Child protection advocates and the federal Opposition have criticised the Albanese government’s decision not to introduce a mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content. But...
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The federal government has introduced new rules requiring 100 of its largest agencies to appoint chief information security officers, boosting cyber security leadership in Canberra at a time of...
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The secretary of the New South Wales Department of Customer Service, Emma Hogan, will step down from the top job later this year after four years in the role....
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Accenture is mapping government officials, their relationships and “social styles”, sharing it within the tech services firm to prepare bids for lucrative government contracts. The firm — which has...