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Cyber incident rocks major IVF clinic

A leading Australian fertility clinic has apologised to customers and says it is investigating a breach of its computer network that forced it to take some of its servers...

Scientists push government for $2bn supercomputing plan

Australia’s top science body is ramping up pressure on the federal government to commit to a multi-billion dollar, decade-long overhaul of the country’s “oversubscribed” and near end-of-life supercomputers. The...

Green is for go: Gilmour Space gets its ticket to fly

Gilmour Space Technologies has taken another big step toward its first orbital launch with chief executive officer Adam Gilmour expected on Wednesday to announce that the company had been...

Failings trigger call to break up govt’s tech work

Large government technology projects should be broken up into smaller bundles of work and delivered in an agile way with sustainment and upgrade funding factored in from the start,...

Cyber policy shakeup for govt cloud, networking

Cloud and networking policies used to help secure the federal government’s vast IT estate will be consolidated as part of a new joined-up framework being developed by the Department...

Corruption watchdog to investigate Robodebt referrals

The national corruption watchdog will investigate referrals it received from the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, reversing its controversial earlier decision to not pursue them. On Tuesday, the...

Privacy, Indigenous leaders added to govt services board

Privacy and Indigenous affairs experts have bolstered the board advising Services minister Katy Gallagher on delivery and technology ahead of its first meeting of 2025 on Wednesday. Former national...

Future Fund lifts stake in CDC Data Centres by $1.8bn

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has boosted its stake in Canberra Data Centres, the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government, in a transaction that values the...

One and done: No plans for future across govt AI trials

The Digital Transformation Agency has ruled out future cross-government trials of generative AI products just months after more than 7,600 public servants tested Microsoft Copilot. The decision, which puts...

Funding cuts rip through ANU innovation initiatives

The future of the ANU’s data science research centre hangs in the balance due to $55 million in innovation funding cuts that have already claimed the university’s tech policy...

Govt’s big tech levy pause ‘cowering to the bully’

The Greens have lashed a slow down on Australia’s plan to start charging online platforms that refuse to pay for news content, following a report the government is going...

Scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher named IISA chair

Adjunct Professor and scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed the federal government’s top innovation adviser after decades working across the quantum, mining, robotics, and startup sectors. The...