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Telstra admits network controls failed as Senate dissects nationwide outage
An undocumented design change and an unapplied software update allowed a network timing server to restart with the wrong date, disrupting almost half of Telstra’s mobile traffic and producing errors for 604 Triple Zero calls. Telstra has conceded that deficiencies in its internal controls allowed routine maintenance on a single network timing server to precipitate…
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Albanese centralises AI policy and sets course for mandatory national standards
The Prime Minister has placed artificial intelligence at the centre of government, announcing a new Office of AI and a national framework spanning data centres, copyright, energy, employment and sovereign capability. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved to consolidate the Commonwealth’s fragmented approach to artificial intelligence, declaring that Australia must become a maker of AI…
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ANU under national scrutiny after former student details campus antisemitism
The Australian National University has been drawn directly into the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion after a former student described an accumulation of alleged antisemitic incidents, social exclusion and institutional inaction during her years on the Canberra campus. Giving evidence in Melbourne under the pseudonym “Liat”, the former student told the Commission that…