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Australian companies should encourage more technology professionals into senior management positions to keep up with global competition and help realise benefits from artificial intelligence, an Australian actuary and data scientist says.
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Wi-Fi was initially created to connect devices within around 50 metres of a base station, but new innovations are expanding its usefulness – and its range – as Australian firm Morse Micro gears up to launch Wi-Fi with a proven range of 16 kilometres globally by next year.
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Google has strongly criticised Australia’s impending ban of under-16s holding social media accounts after its popular video streaming platform YouTube was added to the ban following a federal government backflip.
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Queensland’s Noosa Council has lost $1.9 million to international scammers who used artificial intelligence and social engineering to defraud the council of ratepayer funds.
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Over half a billion PCs will be rendered insecure this week after Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system reaches its official end of life – creating a cornucopia for criminals as new research finds nearly half of Australian end users find device and data security too “frustrating” to bother with.
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Identity documents used to verify users’ ages have been caught up in a major data breach at messaging platform Discord, heightening privacy fears just weeks before Australia’s social media age ban takes effect.
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Apple and Google have removed mobile apps designed to record sightings of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from their respective app stores, following pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Australia’s bosses have quietly abandoned their hardline stance on forcing workers back to the office, conceding defeat after months of backlash and resistance, a new KPMG report reveals.
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Cybercriminals have published 153GB of alleged Qantas customer data after the airline refused to co-operate with ransom demands.
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An increasing number of workers are experiencing “ghost growth”, an illusion of career growth without any actual advancement, a new report has found.
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Emails claiming @westernsydneyu.bsky.social (WSU) students’ degrees had been cancelled may have been fakes, but class actions against WSU and the University of Newcastle are all too real after course accreditation snafus left students unemployable.
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An Australian scientist and a group of international quantum researchers have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work at the cutting edge of chemistry and physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.
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Hackers have threatened Qantas and 38 other companies to pay a ransom by the end of the week or face their stolen data being published online.
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A coalition of education and research groups has taken legal action against the Trump administration’s imposition of a $150,000 application fee for a visa popular among the tech sector.
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Australia’s largest telecommunications providers Telstra, Optus, and TPG have been brought before the federal government as it faces criticism from political opponents over two recent Optus outages which blocked Triple Zero calls.
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With Christmas treats on the shelves of your local grocery store, the holiday shopping season is imminent – and generative AI (genAI) giants want to help, with OpenAI launching commerce services that let ChatGPT recommend gifts and complete your purchase.
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Police investigations are underway after emails which initially appeared to have been sent by @westernsydneyu.bsky.social claimed students’ qualifications had been revoked, that more of their personal data had been stolen, and cybersecurity gaps had been left unpatched.
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Advocacy groups and legal experts are demanding transparency around a new government tool being developed to score the needs of people with disability.
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Up to 3,000 flood victims in NSW have had their data exposed after a government contractor fed their private details to ChatGPT.
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Telstra has been handed an $18 million fine and ordered to pay back affected consumers after moving thousands of customers of its lower cost brand Belong to a slower NBN plan without informing them.
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Artwork created by genAI and other software could be eligible for copyright protection, after a seven-year legal battle ended with a Federal Court ruling that gaming giant Aristocrat can patent game features created by its software without human input.
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Workers are facing a “hidden crisis” of prolonged unhappiness in their jobs, with more than half reporting disengagement and uncertainty about their future, according to new research.
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Consulting giant Deloitte will partially refund the federal government after acknowledging that generative AI was used in a report containing several fabricated references and quotes.
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Global tech consultant Accenture has issued a blunt directive to its workers: learn to use artificial intelligence or prepare to lose your job.
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Toyota, the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ), and Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) have begun field tests of an Australian-developed navigation system designed to work in tunnels, buildings, and other places where conventional GPS does not work well.
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Two major Australian banks have joined global payments network Swift, as well as 32 peers in 15 other countries, to develop a new blockchain-based shared ledger that will standardise the instant cross-border movement of digital assets like cryptocurrency.
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Two Queenslanders have won a legal battle against Samsung Electronics Australia after they were refused a refund when a smartwatch they purchased allegedly did not live up to the company’s advertised battery life.
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Tech giant Google has unveiled a novel way to fight ransomware with a new, specialised AI model baked into Google Drive.
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New Zealand’s oldest membership association for technology professionals, @itprofessionalsnz.bsky.social, will abruptly shut down after reaching a “point where the organisation cannot continue”.
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A woman has been convicted following a 7-year investigation which saw UK authorities seize more than $11.2 billion in Bitcoin.
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