The global Microsoft 365 outage has exposed an uncomfortable distinction for Australian and New Zealand cloud customers. Keeping data within national borders is not the same as running a service that can function independently within them.
Australian Commonwealth agencies are being told to shrink their digital estates. Systems that do not need to be connected to the Internet should be shut down or segregated. The move follows an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal.
Two in five companies now let AI execute decisions or actions without human approval to at least a moderate degree. Yet among those running multiple AI agents in one workflow, just 9% say the workflows are fully governed.
:UK businesses will have to send and receive invoices as structured e-invoices over the Peppol network from 1 April 2029. Australia and New Zealand use the same network, but neither has a business-to-business mandate in force or announced.
An eight-qubit quantum computer is now running inside Equinix's Sydney data centre, occupying 16 square metres and drawing less than 20 kW of power. Diraq says it is Australia's first quantum computer inside a commercial data centre. The facility also hosts everyday computing for banking, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and retail.
Agencies that switch on Microsoft 365 Copilot may need their own controls to meet records obligations. New federal guidance warns the service can influence official work without preserving the prompts, outputs or context behind it.
The global Microsoft 365 outage has exposed an uncomfortable distinction for Australian and New Zealand cloud customers. Keeping data within national borders is not the same as running a service that can function independently within them.
Australian Commonwealth agencies are being told to shrink their digital estates. Systems that do not need to be connected to the Internet should be shut down or segregated. The move follows an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal.
Two in five companies now let AI execute decisions or actions without human approval to at least a moderate degree. Yet among those running multiple AI agents in one workflow, just 9% say the workflows are fully governed.
:UK businesses will have to send and receive invoices as structured e-invoices over the Peppol network from 1 April 2029. Australia and New Zealand use the same network, but neither has a business-to-business mandate in force or announced.
An eight-qubit quantum computer is now running inside Equinix's Sydney data centre, occupying 16 square metres and drawing less than 20 kW of power. Diraq says it is Australia's first quantum computer inside a commercial data centre. The facility also hosts everyday computing for banking, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and retail.
Agencies that switch on Microsoft 365 Copilot may need their own controls to meet records obligations. New federal guidance warns the service can influence official work without preserving the prompts, outputs or context behind it.
A Commonwealth contract that banned offshore access to court data did not stop overseas transcribers reaching it. Australia's privacy regulator says the fault lay in an access-control error, not in the contract.
Attackers have begun running intrusions through AI coding assistants already approved on a victim's device. Their commands then inherit the trust the organisation gave the tool.
AI is often discussed in terms of what it might replace. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question. What if its real value is not replacing human expertise, but extending what skilled people are capable of?
