Author: Justin Hendry

Legacy tech poses ‘significant risk’ to Medicare system: Review

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The federal government should urgently consider options to replace the legacy technology underpinning the Medicare payments system to address fraud and non-compliance by doctors, according to a government-commissioned independent...

TikTok banned on government devices

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
TikTok will be banned on Australian government-issued devices over cyber security and foreign interference fears, following similar bans of the Chinese social media platform by other Five Eyes nations....

Online age verification ‘roadmap’ with government

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A roadmap charting a way forward on Australia’s proposed mandatory age verification regime for online pornography has been delivered to the federal government after almost two years of development...

Small telco exemptions are hurting retirees

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The number of retirees having to pay high monthly fees for underperforming fixed connections to the internet is increasing at an alarming rate thanks to a small provider exemption...

Lockheed Martin lands Defence’s $4bn sovereign satellite deal

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US defence giant Lockheed Martin has fought off Airbus, Boeing and Optus to secure a lucrative contract to deliver Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation. The Department of...

DTA to renegotiate $782m SAP deal after 8x increase

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is preparing to renegotiate its software licensing arrangement with German tech giant SAP, after one contract connected with the deal ballooned almost eight times its original...

The pause AI movement is remarkable, but won’t work

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
The open letter calling for an immediate six-month pause in the AI development arms race and signed by more than 1600 tech luminaries, researchers and responsible technology advocates under...

Data61 puts AI ethics into practice

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
After developing an artificial intelligence ethics framework long before the likes of ChatGPT and BARD, efforts are afoot at the data arm of Australia’s national science agency to help...