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The Gig Guide: Australia’s top bureaucrat resigns

Glyn Davis, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has resigned after serving the last three years as Australia’s top public servant. Professor Davis’s resignation will...

NSW Health cools on high-risk innovation investment

NSW Health will move to diversify and re-balance its portfolio of research and innovation investments under a more risk-averse approach that creates “lasting impact and value”. The new approach...

All eyes on caucus as Ed Husic exits the Industry portfolio

Industry and Science minister Ed Husic is set to be dropped from federal Cabinet, a casualty of post-election factional jostling for positions in Anthony Albanese’s second ministry. But regardless...

PsiQuantum inks deal for ‘critical’ local cooling tech

One of the world’s largest cryoplants ever commissioned for a quantum computer will be built and tested offshore before being installed at PsiQuantum’s mammoth manufacturing facility in Brisbane later...

Tariff buster: Sydney mic mogul snaps up US rival

The parent company of Sydney manufacturer Rode Microphones, The Freedman Group, has acquired Lectrosonics, a 54-year-old US maker of high-end wireless audio equipment, making it one of the largest...

Apple ‘unresponsive’ to govt’s age assurance trial

US tech giant Apple has been “unresponsive” to the Albanese government’s trial of age assurance technologies ahead of a ban on young Australians accessing social media later this year....

Trump to rescind and replace Biden-era AI chip export curbs

US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to rescind and modify a Biden-era rule that curbed the export of sophisticated AI chips, a spokeswoman for the Department of Commerce said...

Showtime! 2025 InnovationAus Awards entries now open

Calling all entrepreneurs, researchers and deep tech pioneers! The search has begun for Australia’s most innovative technology-driven companies of 2025 through the fifth annual InnovationAus Awards for Excellence. Entries...

Device bank, new standards to help bridge NSW’s digital divide

Thousands of pre-loved devices could be donated to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities every year to boost digital connectivity under NSW’s first-ever digital inclusion strategy. The strategy, which has been...

US court clash ends in $259m defeat for Israeli spyware firm

Meta Platforms won a US$168 million ($259 million) verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America’s biggest...