Commonwealth agencies would be barred from automating any decision that requires judgement, under a bill now before the House of Representatives. They would also have to publish the rules, weightings and test results behind every high risk system.
Large language models will abandon a correct answer if a user repeats a false statement often enough. Some will flip back and forth on the same claim within a single conversation.
A cybersecurity incident that stopped a global medical device manufacturer from making or shipping product has ended with operations fully restored. The one clinical workflow it degraded is working again.
An AI agent compromised roughly 30 companies, exfiltrated 3.1TB of data and drafted the ransom demands. Token costs ran between 40 cents and four dollars per victim.
Australian organisations now have a common vocabulary for describing how sensitive their data is. The same scheme sets out what protection each category warrants, and how that expectation travels when data is shared.
AI systems inside Australian and New Zealand organisations are surfacing sensitive information to people who are not cleared to see it. The problem is now the second most common category of AI security incident in the region according to a new report.
National Australia Bank has been removed from the signatory list of an OpenAI open letter on cyber defence, two days after it appeared as the only Australian organisation endorsing the document.
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has found both a major private patient portal vendor and the country’s central public health agency in breach of patient privacy laws, following a December 2025 cyber incident that exposed the sensitive records of nearly 100,000 people.
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.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) concedes adoption of standards remains “sporadic” more than two decades after foundational digital health work began in Australia but claims a new framework will drive uptake.
Most organisations are accelerating artificial intelligence investment without the data foundations needed to support it, a global benchmark study has found.
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.
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).
With three major regulatory expansions landing on its desk in the next 13 months, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has suffered a funding cut in the 2026 federal budget
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.
Instructure has confirmed it reached an agreement with the criminal actor behind the Canvas data breach affecting education institutions across the globe.
