Industry Insider

  • Dark Data Emerges as Agentic AI Bottleneck

    AI systems in the average large organisation can reach just 45 per cent of company data. In financial services that figure falls to 33 per cent, and in healthcare to 40 per cent. The numbers come from Scaling AI Agents with Trustworthy Data, an MIT Technology Review Insights report sponsored by Google Cloud. It draws on a global survey of 300 senior executives. 

  • NSW Agencies Cannot Say What AI They Run

    All 10 NSW government agencies examined for their use of artificial intelligence keep an AI register. But only four of them record the AI they have formally assessed. The rest of their AI use sits outside any inventory.

  • icare Tests Market on ECM Consolidation

    A NSW government insurer is asking the market how it could collapse four separate document repositories into one. It has also put a number on what it expects to save. The target is a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in annual licensing and maintenance costs.

  • NZ Review Urges Digital Government Reset

    New Zealand's central digital agency has been told to stop delivering projects and start setting standards. It has also been told to open a direct channel to Australia's Digital Transformation Agency and import models that already work. Trans-Tasman sourcing and security collaboration are named as joint opportunities to explore.

  • UK Police Database Leak Hits All 43 Forces

    A breach has exposed the names, employing organisations and work email addresses of more than 100,000 UK police and criminal justice staff. It appears to have required no malware and no zero-day. A misconfigured permission on a public-facing web portal is the reported cause.

  • Secured Signing Targets Deepfake Swaps

    A digital signer can clear identity verification at the start of a remote witnessing session and be replaced before the document is executed. Secured Signing has released the ID Trust Console, which re-tests the person on screen throughout a video signing meeting rather than once at the door.

  • Copilot overhaul after weak global adoption

    Microsoft is undertaking the biggest restructuring of its Copilot strategy since it began embedding OpenAI's technology across its software three years ago, a move triggered by leaked internal figures showing that very few of its commercial customers pay for the assistant or use it regularly.

Information & Data Manager

VentraIP Takedown Exposes the Shadow 'DDoS Tax'

A terabit-scale DDoS attack took Australia’s largest privately-owned Web host offline on Saturday 23 May. The takedown has laid bare a regulatory gap that forces enterprise and government customers to fund the country’s DDoS defences themselves.

AI Ambition Outpaces Data Foundations

Most organisations are accelerating artificial intelligence investment without the data foundations needed to support it, a global benchmark study has found.

Unstructured Data Blocks AI Outcomes: Report

More than half of enterprise AI projects are failing to deliver their objectives, with poor unstructured data management identified as the primary blocker, new Nasuni research has found.

Federal FOI Administration Fails Pro-Disclosure Test

The Albanese government's pre-election commitments to open government and transparency appear not to have made it through to key federal portfolios, which are failing the pro-disclosure obligations of the Freedom of Information Act according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).

Informotion acquires InTouch Product Suite

Informotion has acquired the InTouch product suite from InReach Software, taking ownership of a long-running web and mobile interface designed to extend OpenText Content Manager by enhancing the user experience and increasing productivity gains.

Most AI Initiatives miss Expected ROI - ISACA

Artificial intelligence is now embedded almost everywhere in business, but the returns and the guardrails are not keeping pace, according to new research from professional association ISACA. Ninety percent of digital trust professionals say employees in their organisation are using AI, yet only 22 percent report that AI return on investment has met or exceeded expectations.