Author: Justin Hendry

Australia hits AUKUS tech trade milestone

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Local defence companies have chalked up more than $25 million in licence-free exports to the United States and United Kingdom in less than six months under Australia’s new export...

AI policies still missing at 20 federal agencies

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Almost two dozen federal government agencies using artificial intelligence were without internal policies governing its use last year, and more than 40 had no assurance arrangements in place, an...

SA moves on social media ‘posting and boasting’

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South Australians will face jail terms of up to two years for sharing violent or illegal acts on social media under laws introduced to state parliament on Thursday to...

Former spy chief Nick Warner joins PsiQuantum board

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Former spy chief Nick Warner has been appointed as a non-executive director of PsiQuantum, the tech startup that will stage its attempts to build the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant...

On copyright, OpenAI is the pot calling the kettle black

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Until a few weeks ago, few people in the Western world had heard of a small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company known as DeepSeek. But on January 20, it...

DeepSeek banned from Australian government devices

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Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek has been banned from Australian government-issued systems and devices after it was found to pose an “unacceptable level of security risk” . Home Affairs...

Local space sector welcomes new regulatory changes

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Australia’s space sector regulations have been overhauled for the second time in two years, with the federal government moving to cut down on red tape and speed up launch...

Feds back study into WA rare earths processing facility

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A critical minerals processing facility slated for Perth has progressed to the next stage, with the Western Australian and federal governments committing $3 million to an initial feasibility study....