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Optus Triple Zero Outage
Why it’s serious What went wrong (so far) What’s being done / what’s next What you should know as a mobile user
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For peopleNew releases, updates to existing datasets and models, and what we are working on.
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Accenture acquires CyberCX
What the deal is Why Accenture is doing it What Accenture gains What it means for the region & the broader market Key risks / things to watch Summary In short: Accenture’s acquisition of CyberCX is a major move in the cybersecurity services market: it gives Accenture a strong local footprint in the APAC region, […]
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AWS Summit Sydney 2025
AWS Summit Sydney recently concluded 2 days of presentations of latest technologies (4-5 Jun) and successes in the AWS ecosystem. See the videos of the session here.
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Snowflake Attack 2024
The Australian Signals Directorate has release intel communications that Snowflake instances are being targetted from a range of IP Addresses. Read ASD’s communications here. Snowflake has further describe the threat in its communications here. This looks like brute force attacks at common Snowflake accounts prompting advisory to:>> Update Admin accounts and Disable non-active accounts. Another […]
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Secure Artificial Intelligence Act
A new Bill called the Secure Artificial Intelligence Act has been tabled in the US Senate. The Bill aims to address security vulnerabilities associated with Artificial Intelligence Systems. The proposal is : Create a database to track vulnerabilities The Bill called for ‘National Institute of Standards and Technology’ and the ‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’ to […]
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AWS Summit Sydney 2024
AWS Summit Sydney recently concluded 2 days of presentations of latest technologies (10-11 Apr) and successes in the AWS ecosystem. Generative AI was definitely a focus with AWS discussing the latest methods using Amazon Q. Check out: Innovation Day has a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence and ho See the videos of the session here.
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Top 10 Plugins for WordPress in 2024
Since 2003, WordPress has retained its popularity as a feature rich platform to rapidly build a business, and establish a web presence. Thanks to a thriving ecosystem of web developers, plugin developers, and theme creators who can literally make WordPress do anything. So what are the Top 10 plugins that keep the platform amazing? This […]
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SAP IDM end-of-life in 2027
Love it or hate it, SAP IDM is deferring for alternative IDM solutions come 2027. SAP announced this on their website with Microsoft Entra ID mentioned as an alternative. There are plenty of other IDM alternatives, but each will require integration. https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/preparing-for-sap-identity-management-s-end-of-maintenance-in-2027/ba-p/13596101
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The Sanctity of Access
The collective store of knowledge has been generated by human in forums, reddit, stackoverflow, websites, Wiki, and search engines. We have used this to train ChatGPT. Since GPT4, the generation of knowledge is moving from the public-sphere into a direct private chat. This is a problem. So the generation and capture of knowledge is now […]
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What is ChatGPT?
So 2023 started with a big buzz on ChatGPT. OpenAI announced ChatGPT availability just before Christmas, and soon the internet was abuzz with excitement. ChatGPT app gained some 1 million users after 5 days, and 10million users after 40 days. This is way faster that previous upstarts like Instagram, Twitter etc… So what exactly is […]
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The Battlefield
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World Economic Forum 2023
World Economic Forum 2023, Davos: The World Economic Forum (WEF) meet is scheduled to be held in Davos, Switzerland, from January 16 to January 20, 2023. The forum has returned to its traditional January slot under the theme of ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’, where leaders from industry, and government fly in on their private jets. […]
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FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) arrested
Police in the Bahamas have arrested the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX after criminal charges were filed in the US. Sam Bankman-Fried was the lead scammer who laundered money through FTX. The company that was valued at $47B before speculation FTX was running insolvent led to a liquidity crunch that ultimately brought down the exchange […]