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Balancing cyber risk and digital citizenry in higher ed

Chief information security officers should refrain from imposing singular security policies on university environments as security boundaries shift to the users, a trend accelerated by the pandemic and breaches...

Calls for safe harbour cyber laws grow louder

The case for a temporary safe harbour to improve information sharing between businesses and government during a cyber-attack is building, with Australia’s key business lobby the latest to recommend...

Innovation is the key to NBN Co’s future

The future of telecommunications in Australia has become linked to the success or failure of NBN Co, the government business enterprise that is responsible for connecting premises to the...

Queensland to lure VCs with $150m fund

The Queensland government is creating a new $150 million fund for venture capital firms in a bid to revive innovation funding in the state after its share of national...

AUKUS closes gap on China’s critical tech lead

AUKUS puts the collective research might of the three allies ahead of China in critical technologies like robotics and quantum sensing, and closes the gap in others, new research...

CSIRO, fund manager partner on responsible AI framework

National science agency CSIRO and fund manager Alphinity have teamed up to develop a framework for companies to assess artificial intelligence investment decisions from an ESG standpoint. The framework,...

Roy Green launches into space sector director’s role

Innovation ecosystem greybeard Professor Roy Green has launched himself into the space industry, taking a non-executive director’s role at SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre. Professor Green is well known among...

Govt mum on $15bn NRF investment return

The Albanese government remains tight lipped on the target rate of return for its $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, despite an interim figure surfacing ahead of the introduction of...

InnovationAus Awards 2023 entry deadline looms

The final deadline for the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2023 is just two weeks away, and we are looking for the nation’s best entrepreneurs, innovators and research translation heroes....

No, AI probably won’t kill us all

Doomsaying is an old occupation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complex subject. It’s easy to fear what you don’t understand. These three truths go some way towards explaining the...