A financial mismanagement scandal has hit the sport of Ice Hockey in Australia, and its President has stepped down in disgrace. Sandi Logan with the story. Ice Hockey is not a major sport in Australia, or anywhere else in the southern hemisphere. In Northern and Eastern Europe, Russia and North
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday in the US, alleging the technology giant’s AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites. The lawsuit by Penske Media in federal court in Washington DC, marks the first time a major US
Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler has returned to the shadow ministry with responsibilities for Cyber Security and Science as part of a frontbench reshuffle unveiled on Sunday. Opposition leader Sussan Ley made a series of changes following Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s removal from the ministry in the wake the Northern Territory MP
The Government has just announced a spend of $1.7B on new ‘Ghost Shark’ underwater drones. But there appears to be more stealth in the budget than there is in the capability. Former submariner Rex Patrick reports. Pete Quinn must be pretty happy. Quinn was the Head of Navy Capability for
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's love affair with fossil fuels is undermining national and regional security, strengthening China's arm, Wesley Morgan reports.
The post Albanese’s fossil fuels embrace undermining national security appeared first on The Klaxon.
Can Australia play an outsized role in the global regulation of Big Tech? Do we have the middle-power muscle to bring together a coalition of countries that would have the combined heft to push back on tech overreach? Of all the areas where Australia might claim to “punch above our
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appointed Matt Yannopoulos as secretary of the Department of Finance, placing a career public servant with a strong IT and digital background at the helm of the Commonwealth’s central tech procurement agency. Most recently at the Department of Defence as associate secretary
Australia’s communication regulator has called out “stalling” fact checking by platform giants after Meta and Google abandoned efforts to verify information with experts, and other companies stopped detailing their steps in Australia. The concern is raised in the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) annual report on digital platforms’ efforts
Breakthrough Victoria has followed the federal government’s lead and taken a $2 million stake in Harvest B, the country’s first plant-based protein ingredient manufacturer. Founded by Kristi Riordan and Alfred Lo in 2020, the Sydney-based company crafts its plant-based proteins from a blend of wheat and soy, offering food brands
The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains. Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see? In the current Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, parts of
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding deal for new relationship terms that would allow OpenAI to proceed to restructure itself into a for-profit company, marking a new phase of the most high-profile partnerships to fund the ChatGPT frenzy. Details on the new commercial arrangements were not disclosed on Thursday
A couple of big equity investment bets by Australian governments into US quantum firms PsiQuantum and Infleqtion have taken a step forward with a pathway to liquidity revealing itself. The first of these, PsiQuantum, announced this week a US$1 billion (A$1.5 billion) Series E capital raise, valuing the company at
A financial mismanagement scandal has hit the sport of Ice Hockey in Australia, and its President has stepped down in disgrace. Sandi Logan with the story. Ice Hockey is not a major sport in Australia, or anywhere else in the southern hemisphere. In Northern and Eastern Europe, Russia and North
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday in the US, alleging the technology giant’s AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites. The lawsuit by Penske Media in federal court in Washington DC, marks the first time a major US
Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler has returned to the shadow ministry with responsibilities for Cyber Security and Science as part of a frontbench reshuffle unveiled on Sunday. Opposition leader Sussan Ley made a series of changes following Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s removal from the ministry in the wake the Northern Territory MP
The Government has just announced a spend of $1.7B on new ‘Ghost Shark’ underwater drones. But there appears to be more stealth in the budget than there is in the capability. Former submariner Rex Patrick reports. Pete Quinn must be pretty happy. Quinn was the Head of Navy Capability for
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's love affair with fossil fuels is undermining national and regional security, strengthening China's arm, Wesley Morgan reports.
The post Albanese’s fossil fuels embrace undermining national security appeared first on The Klaxon.
Can Australia play an outsized role in the global regulation of Big Tech? Do we have the middle-power muscle to bring together a coalition of countries that would have the combined heft to push back on tech overreach? Of all the areas where Australia might claim to “punch above our
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appointed Matt Yannopoulos as secretary of the Department of Finance, placing a career public servant with a strong IT and digital background at the helm of the Commonwealth’s central tech procurement agency. Most recently at the Department of Defence as associate secretary
Australia’s communication regulator has called out “stalling” fact checking by platform giants after Meta and Google abandoned efforts to verify information with experts, and other companies stopped detailing their steps in Australia. The concern is raised in the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) annual report on digital platforms’ efforts
Breakthrough Victoria has followed the federal government’s lead and taken a $2 million stake in Harvest B, the country’s first plant-based protein ingredient manufacturer. Founded by Kristi Riordan and Alfred Lo in 2020, the Sydney-based company crafts its plant-based proteins from a blend of wheat and soy, offering food brands
The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains. Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see? In the current Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, parts of
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding deal for new relationship terms that would allow OpenAI to proceed to restructure itself into a for-profit company, marking a new phase of the most high-profile partnerships to fund the ChatGPT frenzy. Details on the new commercial arrangements were not disclosed on Thursday
A couple of big equity investment bets by Australian governments into US quantum firms PsiQuantum and Infleqtion have taken a step forward with a pathway to liquidity revealing itself. The first of these, PsiQuantum, announced this week a US$1 billion (A$1.5 billion) Series E capital raise, valuing the company at
