US President Donald Trump’s purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation’s digital defences at risk, a former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a in a social media post on Friday. Mr Trump’s recent moves to fire the
Almost all the cyberattacks in the APAC region now come from external threat actors like organised crime syndicates and state-affiliated actors, according to new analysis of thousands of incidents. Espionage emerged as a key driver in the region in 2025, behind one in three APAC attacks and nearly double the
Three new Cooperative Research Centres will launch with $158 million in federal co-funding announced Thursday to start producing regenerative therapies, advance 3D printing and innovate in the care economy. The three centres are the Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART) CRC, the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research ...
In an election dominated by pressing issues like housing, the cost of living, energy transition, Medicare and jobs, it may seem counterintuitive to prioritise space. But if we are serious about securing Australia’s future prosperity, national security, and global relevance, investing in space is not just important – it is
Australia will begin stockpiling critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and silicon from 2026 to insulate against geopolitical shocks and build up a fledgling processing industry if Labor is re-elected. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Thursday that an initial $1.2 billion taxpayer investment would launch a multi-generational national reserve ...
The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple and Meta Platforms by the European Union were a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not tolerate. Apple was fined 500 million euros (US $570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as EU
Consulting giant KPMG says Australia’s biggest innovation incentive is too complex and outdated, with its administrative burdens acting as a handbrake on the strategic industries policy makers want to thrive. In a submission to the federal government’s Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD), senior KPMG staff have called for
Artificial intelligence technologies will boost global output by 0.5 per cent a year to 2030, far outweighing the costs of rising carbon emissions from the power-hungry data centres running the models, the International Monetary Fund says. In a report released Tuesday, IMF researchers claim the AI boom will “cause manageable
Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board on Wednesday sharply rebuked the Facebook and Instagram owner over a policy overhaul in January that cut fact-checking and eased curbs on discussions of contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity.
Google has backflipped on a promise to allow users to easily opt out of third-party cookies in its market leading browser, announcing overnight it will not introduce the standalone prompt it flagged last year. It means the ability to opt out of third-party cookies – the tiny packets of code
A key element of Australia’s attempt to protect and leverage undersea cables in the Pacific will be led by management consultants after the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade outsourced its centre to EY. The $18 million Cable Connectivity and Resilience Centre, launched last year by Foreign minister Penny Wong, was operated
The nation’s peak industry lobby AiGroup has called for immediate and substantial structural changes to Australia’s R&D system, with a key focus on commercialisation efforts, rather than simply pouring more money into research. In its submission to the federal government’s Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD), AiGroup has called for the
US President Donald Trump’s purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation’s digital defences at risk, a former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a in a social media post on Friday. Mr Trump’s recent moves to fire the
Almost all the cyberattacks in the APAC region now come from external threat actors like organised crime syndicates and state-affiliated actors, according to new analysis of thousands of incidents. Espionage emerged as a key driver in the region in 2025, behind one in three APAC attacks and nearly double the
Three new Cooperative Research Centres will launch with $158 million in federal co-funding announced Thursday to start producing regenerative therapies, advance 3D printing and innovate in the care economy. The three centres are the Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART) CRC, the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research ...
In an election dominated by pressing issues like housing, the cost of living, energy transition, Medicare and jobs, it may seem counterintuitive to prioritise space. But if we are serious about securing Australia’s future prosperity, national security, and global relevance, investing in space is not just important – it is
Australia will begin stockpiling critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and silicon from 2026 to insulate against geopolitical shocks and build up a fledgling processing industry if Labor is re-elected. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Thursday that an initial $1.2 billion taxpayer investment would launch a multi-generational national reserve ...
The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple and Meta Platforms by the European Union were a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not tolerate. Apple was fined 500 million euros (US $570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as EU
Consulting giant KPMG says Australia’s biggest innovation incentive is too complex and outdated, with its administrative burdens acting as a handbrake on the strategic industries policy makers want to thrive. In a submission to the federal government’s Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD), senior KPMG staff have called for
Artificial intelligence technologies will boost global output by 0.5 per cent a year to 2030, far outweighing the costs of rising carbon emissions from the power-hungry data centres running the models, the International Monetary Fund says. In a report released Tuesday, IMF researchers claim the AI boom will “cause manageable
Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board on Wednesday sharply rebuked the Facebook and Instagram owner over a policy overhaul in January that cut fact-checking and eased curbs on discussions of contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity.
Google has backflipped on a promise to allow users to easily opt out of third-party cookies in its market leading browser, announcing overnight it will not introduce the standalone prompt it flagged last year. It means the ability to opt out of third-party cookies – the tiny packets of code
A key element of Australia’s attempt to protect and leverage undersea cables in the Pacific will be led by management consultants after the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade outsourced its centre to EY. The $18 million Cable Connectivity and Resilience Centre, launched last year by Foreign minister Penny Wong, was operated
The nation’s peak industry lobby AiGroup has called for immediate and substantial structural changes to Australia’s R&D system, with a key focus on commercialisation efforts, rather than simply pouring more money into research. In its submission to the federal government’s Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD), AiGroup has called for the
