Author: Justin Hendry

Law Council push for Digital ID to replace data obligations

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Data retention obligations imposed on businesses should be scaled back and replaced with the federal government’s digital identity scheme or other privacy-preserving methods, according to the Law Council of...

Govt calls in experts on digital games tax offset

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The federal government will bring in outside help from the private sector to help its three-person advisory board assess applications under the tax offset scheme for video game developers....

Innovation dropped from WA public service

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Innovation and science have been excised from the Western Australia public service, with the government dropping the words from the title of a key department as part of a...

OpenAI closes $64bn funding round to boost AI efforts

Posted on   |  by Jaspreet Singh and Harshita Mary Varghese
OpenAI said on Monday it would raise US$40 billion (A$64 billion) in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a US$300 billion valuation to advance AI research,...

AUKUS innovation challenge hones in on undersea systems

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Australia and its AUKUS partners have launched the second trilateral innovation challenge, this time calling for technologies that aid the “synchronisation and teaming” of undersea systems. Defence’s Advanced Strategic...

Fleet Space lifts Defence’s sovereign satcom hopes

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Fleet Space Technologies says a sovereign satellite communications system for Australia’s military is still feasible, after delivering a low-Earth orbit satellite project to Defence. As Australia explores a militarised...