The Department of Defence has signed contracts with two universities to help develop its AI capabilities.
The University of South Australia and Deakin University will receive a combined $1.75 million from Defence’s next generation technologies fund […]
Government services minister Bill Shorten has flagged a possible major re-architecture of myGov, potentially modelled on – or even using components of – the e-government systems of Estonia.
In a speech yesterday, Shorten said he found parts of Estonia’s digital government approach – particularly its open […]
Matt Hancock joked that
Australia is the latest country to be the test dummy for the G7 CBDC. CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. It is a digital form of a country’s currency that is issued and backed by the central bank of that country. Unlike traditional fiat currency, which is physical cash, CBDC is entirely […]
ANZ today announced it has been selected to act as nominated distributor for selected participants in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre’s (DFCRC) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot.
As nominated distributor, ANZ will distribute CBDC to selected pilot participants […]
CBA to collaborate with the RBA, the DFCRC and other industry participants to demonstrate the potential benefits of a central bank digital currency.
A leading Australian doctor has said that restrictions on outdoor activity at the height of the Covid pandemic were a massive mistake that should never be repeated.
Professor Peter Collignon, an infectious disease expert who previously worked for the World Health Organisation, said Australia should “never in the future stop […]
Byron Council has made an 11th-hour submission opposing the construction of 5G mobile cells in the heart of Mullumbimby.
Telstra is planning to build the facility at 95 Dalley Street as part of the rollout of 5G technology across the country.
On Thursday, defendants GitHub and Microsoft moved to dismiss a copyright lawsuit filed by two anonymous software developers alleging that the companies used developers’ software code to create an AI-based coding assistance product called Copilot. The defendants assert that the plaintiffs neither have standing to bring the suit nor […]
The list of state-funded entities pushing narratives, crushing questions, demanding censorship, and feeding the liberal media unsourced ‘facts’ is about to grow dramatically as the shadowy line between First Amendment protections and Orwellian DoubleSpeak gets blurred by Matt Taibbi’s latest exposition from his delving […]
