Commonwealth Bank is anticipating that its in-app AI assistant Companion will be privy to questions and information that customers may not ordinarily share through traditional support channels. What ...

The South Australian government will set up a royal commission into AI to shape its policy response to the technology. Premier Peter Malinauskas said that the commission will start its work by October ...

National Australia Bank is set for a shake-up of its technology leadership with Patrick Wright set to retire after over nine years. The bank is the last of the ‘Big 4’ to undergo a technology ...

NBN Co has seen its IT and software costs rise as it consumes more software as a service, but says AI use has not materially impacted its technology budget. In its results for the 2026 financial year, ...

Komatsu Australia is moving to protect its corporate network using zero trust network architecture to tackle rapidly emerging cyber security threats posed by frontier AI models. At the end of this ...

The Australian Federal Police is assessing a report of a potential crime after the owner of two undersea cables laid in protection zones near Perth revealed faults commonly attributed to ship activity ...

A North Korean hacking group ⁠built ⁠large language model tools and collected software that could help automate cyberattacks, analyse stolen material and produce more convincing phishing campaigns, a ...

Fast-growing Australian fintech Eightcap is using AI to help manage growing compliance workloads while ensuring customer data ...

Ry Crozier has reported on the technology sector for 25 years. Crozier re-joined iTnews in 2015, after previous stints as a journalist at the University of New South Wales and Electronics News.

The campaign is named CaptiveCrunch by Microsoft and has compromised captive portal equipment used for sign-in and network ...

Nine has begun moving its news broadcast operations onto a new cloud-based media production platform starting with its 9News ...

The new program run with Accenture is “designed to strengthen the technology, digital and specialist capabilities [needed] to ...