Author: Justin Hendry

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
The Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies’ handling of foreigners’ data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable that such efforts...

Defence and DroneShield join forces on counter-drone research

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Homegrown drone detection firm DroneShield will share vital counter-drone research with Australian defence scientists under a new three-year collaborative research agreement. Defence Science and Technology Group inked the partnership...

WiseTech to cut 2,000 jobs amid AI-led revamp

Posted on   |  by Sameer Manekar
Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to lay off about 2,000 people over the next two years, in what could mark one of the largest artificial intelligence-related workforce...

Toby Walsh: Act now on AI or repeat social media mistakes

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
One of Australia’s leading AI researchers will use a major address on Wednesday to warn the country is “dangerously unprepared” to capture the upside of artificial intelligence or to...

Govt moves to review triple zero laws after deadly outages

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will review the laws underpinning Australia’s triple zero net, more than two years after a catastrophic Optus outage first exposed gaps in the emergency call system....

Send her to space: PM urged to act on Aussie of the Year

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing calls to seize a rare opportunity to send Australia’s only active astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to space, after the European Space Agency put the...

OpenClaw and the security risks of AI frenzy

Posted on   |  by Dr Hassan Asghar
It feels like only yesterday that ChatGPT took the world by storm. Its ability to reason and give human-like responses made everyone believe that artificial intelligence is set to...