Category: Technology

News Corp explored switching away from Google’s advertising tools in 2017 but estimated that doing so would lose the Wall Street Journal publisher at least US$9 million ($13.5 million) in ad revenue, a former executive testified at Google’s antitrust trial in Virginia. Google frustrated publishers by introducing features that benefited itself more than them, said Stephanie Layser, who worked in advertising technology at News Corp from 2017 to 2022. Despite those concerns, almost no one in the publishing industry used anything else, because Google’s publisher ad server is tied to Google’s ad exchange, she said. “I felt like they were ... Read more

Nine Entertainment blocked up to 96 million web requests from bots and potentially malicious traffic during this year’s Paris Olympics. The media organisation’s Fastly web application firewall filters 1.2 billion daily web and application requests, including on its brands the Australian Financial Review and Nine News. However, during the Olympics, this daily number of requests increased “four-fold” with “some peaks even higher on some days such as the swimming”, Nine technology director of publishing and enterprise practices Andre Lackmann said. “Across all of those services, we have a 70 percent CDN offload, so about 30 percent of that traffic is ... Read more

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For over a decade, the iTnews Benchmark Awards have provided a platform for organisations to gain recognition for their ambition, innovation, and the significant value they deliver to government, industry, and customers. These awards offer participants a chance to celebrate the remarkable contributions of their technology teams to their organisation’s success. Past Winners Last year’s award recipients included prominent organisations such as the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, ATO, Monash University, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and The Salvation Army Australia. The full photo gallery from last year’s awards night can be found here. Award Categories The 2025 award categories include: Best ... Read more

NAB has decommissioned its 11-year-old Tableau environment as part of a continued move to a new data platform that it calls Ada. The bank’s chief data and analytics officer Christian Nelissen marked the decommissioning with a LinkedIn post, saying that the enterprise instance of Tableau had been turned off. At its height, the instance supported over 11,000 reports and 4000 users. Nelissen wrote that these reports were either migrated to PowerBI or switched off entirely. It’s the second major decommissioning of a data system by NAB and follows the bank’s retirement of its 26-year-old Teradata environment. Teradata was turned off ... Read more

Britain’s competition regulator has cleared Microsoft’s hiring of some former staff of Inflection AI and its partnership with the startup and said the deal did not require a deeper investigation. The Competition and Markets Authority began a probe in July to examine if the deal might lead to competition concerns in the country since both companies develop and supply consumer chatbots. The CMA said that even before being bought, Inflection had a small portion of UK visits for chatbots and AI tools and, unlike its rivals, couldn’t significantly grow or maintain its chatbot users. In March, Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, ... Read more

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned against a cyber group belonging to Russian military intelligence (GRU) Unit 29155, saying it has carried out cyberattacks against NATO and EU countries.  In a post on social media platform X, the Bundesverfassungsschutz said it was issuing the warning against the group known as UNC2589 alongside the FBI, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the NSA and further international partners. The warning comes at a time of heightened anxiety in Europe over suspected Russian hackers and spies since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Earlier this year, Berlin accused Russia of a slew of cyberattacks on ... Read more

The US Commerce Department is proposing to require detailed reporting requirements for advanced artificial intelligence developers and cloud computing providers to ensure the technologies are safe and can withstand cyberattacks. The proposal from the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security would set mandatory reporting to the US government about development activities of “frontier” AI models and computing clusters. It would also require reporting on cyber security measures as well as outcomes from so-called red-teaming efforts like testing for dangerous capabilities including the ability to assist in cyberattacks or lowering barriers to entry for non-experts to develop chemical, biological, radiological, or ... Read more

South Korea has convened an international summit seeking to establish a blueprint for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military, though any agreement is not expected to have binding powers to enforce it. More than 90 countries including the United States and China have sent government representatives to the two-day summit in Seoul, which is the second such gathering. At the first summit was held in Amsterdam last year, where the United States, China and other nations endorsed a modest “call to action” without legal commitment. “Recently, in the Russia-Ukraine war, an AI-applied Ukrainian drone functioned as ... Read more

James Cook University is pursuing a digital refresh and a new cyber security strategy under new digital leadership. JCU The Far-North Queensland-based university is looking to streamline its applications, systems and processes, as well as “identify major digital gaps” over the next five years. Its cyber security program, meanwhile, will “ensure that JCU remains resilient against emerging threats and maintains robust cyber and data protection standards”. The strategy will be led by new chief digital officer Felipe Duncan, who replaces the outgoing Geoff Purcell, who announced his retirement last month. Duncan joined JCU in 2022 as digital applications delivery ... Read more