'BAI Communications will deploy communications infrastructure for the major rail project ...' www.itnews.com.au/news/sydney-...

'Of particular concern is that the biggest federal buyers of technology, and key users of the whole-of-government agreements - the likes of Defence, Services Australia, ATO, DEWR and Home Affairs - are not involved in the negotiation of the agreements at all.

'Petra Capital’s inconsistent use of client reference information when reporting regulatory data led to one client appearing as multiple clients on 3,632 occasions. This was caused by a system update and affected 14,741 trades between 3 March 2022 and 5 December 2023.

'The new guidance, which was signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month, allows commanders to expand the range at which they are allowed to take down a threat, ...

'Typically such integration requires a careful, multi-step process for each system added, starting with a thorough analysis of its technical specifications and ending with a custom-coded translation module. Human engineers could easily take weeks to integrate a single weapon system.

'The network consists of five companies that rely on the same dedicated, Chinese-owned server to host their websites, and all but one of the five used (or still use) the niche Chinese email provider chengmail[.]com.

Looks interesting. smallwarsjournal.com/2026/01/29/d...

'... more than 15 years of experience in senior statutory positions including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, with a heavy emphasis on litigation and enforcement.

Awesome first day as a CTI dude! Cheers to the team for the privilege of joining the fun and for helping me get settled in!

Presenting the final instalment of 'Hardcoded', my series on our ongoing emergency camp on functionality fiasco down under. As I wrap up this series (which has run since December), I ponder the wider meaning of its title in the 000 policy context.

‘… cyber-capable states are best assuming hacktivist groups will seize easily accessible targets and focus on the strategic value of possible cyber-target over ease of access’. irregularwarfare.org/articles/the...

The latest in my series on our ongoing emergency camp on functionality fiasco down under. In this edition, I look at Ministerial decision making.

‘… we [BBC] said “six million people” or “six million mostly Jewish people” had been murdered by the Nazi regime … we apologise. They should have referred to “six million Jewish people”’. How does that ‘journalism’ happen, exactly? www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

'... the [FAA] route structure allowed helicopters to fly directly beneath an active approach corridor for commercial airliners without sufficient mitigations to manage the risk of a collision.

Looks an excellent resource from our Pommy cousins. www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/h...

'... authorities have not confirmed the nature of the material used ... reportedly blew off about 12 feet of the track and caused structural damage along a longer stretch ... The freight engine’s loco pilot was injured ... said to be stable'.

'More than 9,600 flights are expected to be cancelled in the US ahead of a monster winter storm that has already cut power to more than half a million customers as far west as Texas, and threatened to paralyse eastern states with heavy snowfall'.

'A freight train derailed near the German city of Essen on January 12, just hours after the same stretch of railway was scheduled to be used by a US military transport train carrying weapons and equipment.

'... the aircraft manufacturing industry begins a modest recovery in the number of planes it produces, raising hopes for lower operating costs for carriers over time.

'Four regional sites have been chosen for proposed incinerators that will burn excess waste and create energy that can be fed back into the grid. 'In 2021, the then state government passed legislation prohibiting the incinerators from being built in Greater Sydney.

'[India's] total non-fossil fuel capacity ... [sits at] about 262 gigawatts. That’s now more than half of its total installed generation capacity of about 510 gigawatts.

'... TFASA is a South Africa-based company that specialized in military flight testing and training through facilities in South Africa and China ... with the support of the South African government to facilitate cooperation with China.

'... the developer didn’t properly strip the binary and left behind a lot of build artefacts, enough to sketch a pretty solid profile of the development toolchain behind this malware.

'Civil takedowns succeed not because the legal system is well designed for them, but because courts and litigants are improvising.

'... medium confidence that this actor is primarily tasked with obtaining initial access to high-value organizations.

'The contribution from clean energy in the December quarter was the highest it’s ever been, accounting for 50.1 per cent of eastern seaboard’s electricity grid, new figures reveal.

'West Midlands Police said officers were flagged down by members of the public as a group of men were trying to steal cables on Great Charles Queensway at around 7.30pm on Tuesday.

'In particular, the group NoName057(16) has been active since March 2022, and have been conducting attacks against government and private sector entities in NATO member states and other European countries that are perceived as hostile to Russian geopolitical interests.

'This is the first time I'm aware that a major federal agency has cancelled significant government contracts over an infosec leak. '... actually applied to two different consulting firms "that might put him on a project to access the President’s tax returns" ...

'... dealing with more than $180,000 ... derived from suspected international scams that targeted Australian investors.

'An estimated 4,000 data centres are currently in operation around the globe, with Australia ranking in the top-five locations. 'Providers are really looking for locations with power, which is the primary one for Gippsland ...

'But they [DG MI5 and Director GCHQ] said the intelligence agencies had put together a “package of national security mitigations for the site” which were “expert, professional and proportionate”.

'Counter Terrorism Policing alongside blue light partners have been testing their response to a major terrorism incident, in a large-scale operation on a Brittany Ferries cross-channel ferry.

'But its projected funding for FY26 is just over $290 million, a whopping 43 percent reduction. '... ASIC will pitch its services directly to Army programs and agencies.

The latest in my series on our ongoing emergency camp on functionality fiasco.

'The company doesn’t specify whether the outage occurred at one of Oracle’s data centers or if the problem is related to the massive snowstorm that covered a large portion of the US over the weekend'. www.theverge.com/news/867873/...

'State-sponsored hackers are known to have targeted the phones of some of the closest aides to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2021 and 2024. 'It is unclear whether the hack included the mobile phones of the prime ministers themselves ...

'... removed an item from his bag and threw it into the crowd from a first-floor walkway before fleeing the scene. 'It actually had the liquid in the middle and in a glass container. '... wrapped around the container was screws — nails and ball bearings, a combination of them

'However, he accepted that he did not comply with the company’s directions and that he was dismissed because of this non-compliance.

The latest in 'Hardcoded', my series on the emergency camp on functionality fiasco down under.

Wishing my compatriots a very Happy Australia Day. I am forever grateful to have been born an Aussie and be an Aussie. Certainly, our country faces a litany of challenges, but, bloody oath, I wouldn’t want to be on any other team as we surmount those challenges together.

The NYTM could have given the column space to an engineer to tell us about the hydraulic presses that make aircraft fuselages. But instead the NYTM seeks to reinforce how out of touch the arts (this is published in a magazine)/Fourth Estate are with normal life.

When you think about it, the 3rd John Wick movie is an excellent film about external auditing.

'This marks the first outcome for ASIC’s new specialist insider trading team which investigated and finalised the case within 16 months of the offending': www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/n... Even better that the dude has been automatically disqualified from managing corporations for a fair while.

Have a great one, possums! #TGIF

OT history - the Fairbottom Bob: 'Suddenly people could multiply energy by a factor of 4,000 by mechanising coal mines, and so they did. This spawned an explosive economic surplus, a huge pulse of wealth, technology, science.

'... a Coalition so impossibly at odds with itself that it could implode ... even when dictating terms ... the philosophical and demographic divisions across the Coalition had become so deep, they could never fully agree on which terms to dictate'. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

PM Carney and President Macron’s talking points appear to be rather similar to New Delhi’s since 2021. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

'This was a very well-connected bank, corrupt et cetera, which underscored that the banking system in itself is a channel for enrichment of the well-connected ...