Startups Australia
Australia's deep tech funding drought may be breaking
Space, defence, quantum and robotics startups landed big seed rounds in recent weeks, as local VCs close record funds.
Australia
National tech news that affects Sydney businesses.
Gadgets Australia
Cheap Android TV boxes in Sydney and other Australian cities were part of a 1.3 million-device botnet
Google researchers say a Chinese manufacturer built a backdoor into its firmware and sold access to criminals.
Policy Australia
Defence says its AI adoption has hit 'absolute acceleration'
The department's new chief AI officer told a parliamentary committee he favours strong open-source models paired with well-built connections to Defence systems.
Cloud Australia
ASIC questions bankers after AI data centre operator Firmus pulls its IPO
The float would have been the second-largest IPO in Australian history. It collapsed on 9 October for lack of investor support.
Cloud Australia
Defence reportedly orders a move away from VMware
An internal mandate is said to cover every part of the department that uses VMware, as licensing costs climb under Broadcom.
AI Australia
Telstra puts an AI agent to work checking bills across 272,000 migrations
Built with Microsoft's new AI consulting unit, the agent flags mismatches between old and new billing systems for staff to review.
Cyber Australia
ASD says AI is now the 'defining force' in Australia's cyber threat landscape
The Signals Directorate issued more than 4,400 warnings about potentially malicious activity in a year, up 80%.
Policy Australia
Big data breaches nearly tripled in the first half of 2026
The OAIC received 667 breach notifications. The number of breaches affecting more than a million people rose from four to 11.
Cyber Australia
'PHP2shell': decade-old flaws put a large share of the web at risk
The PHP Foundation shipped a fix on 22 October. Troy Hunt warned Australians should expect more data breaches as attackers move faster than patches.
Policy Australia
Government wants AI companies to prove their safety systems work
In a Sydney speech, Andrew Charlton outlined a model borrowed from banking and aviation, with frontier AI standards due by the end of 2026.
Cloud Australia
Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre lease, in Queensland's Western Downs
The $31.9 billion campus near Dalby is planned at 1.44GW of IT capacity, subject to FIRB approval.