A purge of legacy systems across Australia’s federal government would likely cost billions and remains unlikely. Still, the OpenAI Medicare breach has prompted an immediate stocktake of the outdated technology agencies run.
Nearly nine in ten senior executives believe a data sovereignty failure could cost them their jobs. Yet almost two thirds of their organisations have no formal sovereignty strategy, new global research shows.
Free market enthusiasts have long argued that private industry does things more efficiently than government. New research into data breach notifications in Australia provides a stark illustration.
Always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computer are rolling out in ChatGPT. In organisations, they can be issued their own identity and credentials.
Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June.
New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner has used compliance notices to dictate how a health agency must vet, contract with and monitor providers holding patient data. The move follows a breach affecting around 99,416 people.
Suncorp is projecting annual savings of 68,000 hours of manual effort after using AI to classify and name workers compensation claim documents. Daily document naming corrections have fallen by around 45%.
On Monday, the Australian government released draft legislation for the next big overhaul of the Privacy Act. The Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 is now out for public comment, together with a consultation paper. It is the second instalment (or “tranche”) of privacy reform , and it is the one that matters most.
AI is an accountability issue, not a technology one. Most organisations can say what an AI tool produced. Very few can say what evidence backs that result. As AI moves into everyday decisions, that gap is the real risk, not whether the technology works.
The US is currently considering a new AI ‘kill switch’ law following an agent going rogue and engaging in unauthorised cyber activities. The proposed law would require developers to maintain the ability to slow, suspend or shut down high-risk AI systems.
Shares in Objective Corporation have continued their slide since the firm announced on July 1 that Defence Digital Group would not renew a support agreement running since 1999. The company has since shed about 40 per cent of its value.
Organisations relying on Microsoft 365 Information Barriers to enforce an ethical wall should not assume the controls cover email. Testing has found the feature blocks Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, but does not prevent email communication in Exchange Online.
Nearly two thirds of organisations using intelligent document processing expect to change their approach within a year according to new data from analysts IDC. That is heavy churn in a market the hyperscale providers currently dominate.
Most vulnerability tooling stops at the report. A partnership announced this week is aimed at what happens next, using automation to prioritise and close gaps across infrastructure, platforms and applications.
An open letter signed by 127 technology, security and financial services organisations says the security posture most enterprises run today will not hold. AI-enabled attacks will overwhelm it within months, the letter argues. One Australian organisation has signed.
The most visible faces of artificial intelligence (AI) are things like ChatGPT, self-driving cars and humanoid robots. But AI is also quietly making inroads in our neighbourhoods.
Enterprise attitudes toward artificial intelligence are starting to mature. For the past few years, much of the conversation has centered on increasingly capable AI frontier models: which one is smartest, which benchmark it leads, and which provider appears to have the strongest technology.
