The rise of artificial intelligence is “a moment of historic consequence” and digital skills are at the centre of the nation’s productivity agenda, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles proclaimed at ...

One of Australia’s most successful tech entrepreneurs believes digital apprenticeships should be created for rapid upskilling for high-demand tech roles. Atlassian co-founder and chair of the Tech ...

Companies love them, customers tolerate them, and generative AI (genAI) is making them useful – but as dozens of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) customer service staff are learning, it’s clear ...

Big Tech firms push them as heirs apparent to passwords, but passkeys are proving tough for businesses to implement – with technical complexities and user adoption issues that one Aussie expert says ...

Clorox has sued IT services firm Cognizant for allegedly providing system logins to a hacker who caused the company $580 million in damages. Court documents explained that in 2023, bleach manufacturer ...

Australian banks shouldn’t expect new regulations to kerb surging AI-powered fraud, officials told an industry event just days after a “very nervous” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI is already so ...

Received a payment demand for an overdue toll or shipping fees? Ignore it: it may be part of a ‘ghost tapping’ scam in which cybercriminals take over your credit card by tricking Apple Pay and Google ...

The UK government has proposed a public sector ban on ransomware payments under new measures aimed at kneecapping ransomware criminals’ ability to make money. The measures would see all public sector ...

Here’s what to know about AI agents What they can do and how they can go wrong. By Daswin de Silva on Jul 29 2025 12:05 PM ...

Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint that can be used to steal sensitive data and remotely execute malicious code. SharePoint, Microsoft’s near-ubiquitous content ...

Australia’s most popular social media platform could bring new AI-based age estimation tools here by December, after the government confirmed Australia’s 5.1 million children under 16 will be banned ...

The United States will scale back perceived “red tape” such as environmental regulations and copyright protections as it seeks "global dominance” in artificial intelligence, according to an ‘AI Action ...