Cybersecurity professionals are increasingly frustrated, with nearly half considering quitting as AI-focused executives block new hires and overlook them for pay rises. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Australian tech workers are earning more than many of their international counterparts but still lagging the Americans, according to new data. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

An AI coding agent took only nine seconds to delete a production database and backups belonging to American software company PocketOS without permission to do so, according to the firm's founder and CEO, Jeremy Crane. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Australian police officers can be tracked using publicly available Bluetooth apps due to a design flaw in a popular line of tasers and body-worn cameras. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Two US cybersecurity professionals have been sentenced to four years in prison after using their specialist tech skills to participate in a spree of ransomware attacks. Texas man Kevin Martin, 36, and Georgia man Ryan Goldberg, 40, were sentenced late last week in a US district court in Florida.

Airwallex’s billionaire cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang plans to annually back 10 Australian founders aged 25 or under who are building AI startups, in a new program that will see them score $100,000 each in equity free capital. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

A “long-term, bipartisan failure” to fund CSIRO adequately has left the national research agency in crisis, a Senate inquiry has found in launching its final report, amidst pleas for a “permanent uplift” in funding. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

A long-running feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has finally reached the courts, in a trial that could alter the trajectory of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Residents and schools near the proposed Western Sydney site of what would be Australia’s most power-hungry data centre have raised concern over potential health and environmental impacts of the planned development, which is expected to cost data centre giant AirTrunk more than $5 billion to build.

The Trump administration has labelled the Australian government’s proposed new levy on Big Tech “foreign extortion”, while a group representing technology firms has called for “targeted trade remedies” in retaliation. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Technology companies have dominated a list of the best companies in Australia for career growth, but one homegrown hero has dropped out of the list entirely. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Telstra’s international arm is proposing to cut around 160 roles as it seeks to reduce “manual steps” in its work by implementing “re-engineered processes, automation, analytics and AI” under a new agreement with consultancy giant Accenture. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Popular Australian gelato franchiser Gelatissimo has less than five days to respond to hackers who claim to have stolen highly sensitive data related to the company’s employees. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Hackers have stolen $3.7 million from the Sri Lankan government – money that was meant to be sent as a debt repayment to Australia. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Australians will get a crash course in Microsoft’s AI worldview after the company announced a $25 billion investment on major infrastructure, cyber safety collaborations, and AI workforce training for 3 million Australians – but sceptics worry about a lack of detail. Read more:

OPINION: "How we understand these layoffs depends on what we think AI is and what implications it will have," write @sydney.edu.au's Kai Riemer & Sandra Peter. "Broadly speaking there are three ways of looking at it: that AI is superintelligence, that it’s mostly hype, and that it’s a useful tool."

Apple has patched an exploit that the FBI used to extract portions of incoming messages, even after they and their corresponding app had been deleted. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Rental tech platform 2Apply breached Australian privacy laws by collecting “excessive” data on renters, the privacy watchdog has found. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

FEATURE: A developer for decades and a contractor since 2003, Amanda (not her real name) had a high-level security clearance and a successful career as a federal government contractor – until an overhaul of security clearances forced her to share her date of birth, and recruiters stopped calling.

Australian companies have begun tying pay increases and bonuses to in-office attendance, but workers are still putting flexibility above all else, according to new research. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Australian cyber officials and financial regulators are warning local organisations to bolster their security posture after Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos AI model allegedly identified cybersecurity gaps which had gone undiscovered for years. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

The New South Wales government has declared a significant cyber incident after a public servant allegedly stole a “substantial cache” of government documents spanning several departments and projects. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

OPINION: "The difference in background between Tim Cook and John Ternus suggests a subtle but important shift in emphasis for Apple," writes Bond University associate professor of marketing, Rajat Roy. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down after 15 years at the helm of one of the world’s largest technology firms, the company announced on Tuesday (AEDT). Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Shares of New Zealand-founded, US-based shoe brand Allbirds soared 580 per cent after the company’s leadership sold off their shoemaking business and announced they had secured $69 million (#$US50 million) in finance to become an AI infrastructure provider. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

The chief executive and chief financial officer of a bankrupt AI company that was once worth more than $2 billion have been charged with fraud, after alleging faking “virtually all” of their customers and revenue. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

A 22-year-old South Australian man is being held without bail after he was charged with 12 counts of cybercrime following a “complex” investigation that led to a range of state and federal offences. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Analysis of almost 200 school-endorsed apps found that most start harvesting Australian children’s data within seconds in contravention of developers’ own privacy policies, leaving underage users exposed to significant privacy and security risks. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

The Australian arm of travel booking platform lastminute.com is shutting down after more than 25 years. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Snap Inc, best known for its social media platform Snapchat, will cut around 1,000 staff – or 16 per cent of its full-time workforce – as it increases its use of AI in the search for profitability, the company announced on Thursday (AEDT). Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Telecommunications regulator ACMA is investigating an “incredibly concerning” claim by @accan-aus.bsky.social that 10 per cent of Australians couldn’t reach Triple Zero services due to a mobile outage in the past 12 months, which Telstra has called “misleading”. Read more:

Apple has confirmed granting Australian law enforcement access to some user notification data for the first time, which can identify a target's device and potentially intercept or recover text from notifications. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

The Australian Taxation Office has won a long-running legal battle and dealt a blow to workers hoping to claim working-from-home rental expenses as tax deductions. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

American education technology company Chegg has been fined $500,000 after the Federal Court of Australia found it had broken local law by helping university students cheat on assessments. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Travel and reservations giant Booking.com has notified an unknown number of customers about a data breach affecting “anything” they’ve shared with certain accommodation providers. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

OPINION: "AI did not 'cure cancer' by itself," writes oncologist Justin Stebbing. "It acted as an always-available guide and assistant, but qualified scientists still had to check its work and do the hard parts in the lab. "Even so, this case is a vivid example of several ideas coming together."

Australians are too busy to study or undertake work-related training, according to new ABS figures that have charted a steady decline over the past four years – and reveal that young people are studying more to improve their job prospects than to boost their skills. Read more:

Exploding use of autonomous AI agents saw the volume of traffic generated by agentic AI increase by 7,851 per cent last year, according to a new report, with a 187 per cent surge in AI-related traffic exposing the degree to which machine-to-machine exchanges are coming to dominate the internet.

Sam Altman’s house has been attacked twice over the weekend, just days after the publication of a major exposé article about the OpenAI CEO, that he labelled “incendiary”. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

OPINION: "Our research makes a clear case for getting more STEM expertise into the boardroom," write QUT researchers Natalie Elms and Dr Ashesha Weerasinghe. "We found companies with greater STEM representation on their boards invested more in innovation and investors valued them more highly."

Brisbane-based cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx has laid off some 15 per cent of its workforce and replaced its chief executive after the company landed two major acquisitions during a period of Bitcoin decline. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

A former Meta employee is being investigated by police for allegedly designing a program to bypass internal security checks and download tens of thousands of private images posted on Facebook when they worked at the company. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Bendigo Bank has signalled a new round of job cuts under two new technology partnerships that will grant the bank increased access to “AI talent”. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Anthropic is partnering with some of the biggest technology companies in the world on a new project aiming to secure critical infrastructure from the threats posed by AI, revealing a yet-to-be released model has found “thousands” of significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Read more:

Optus has followed the lead of archrival Telstra, raising the prices of its mobile plans for the second time in a year just weeks after the industry ombudsman said declining financial hardship complaints suggested telcos were finally addressing cost-of-living pressures. Read more:

OPINION: "Whether you're running a two-person startup or a global operation, the same costly inefficiencies can drain your bottom line," writes Emily Chantiri. "Here are the five biggest office money wasters, and how eliminating them could save you from spending a fortune rectifying future damage."

The Australian CEO of DroneShield has quit just months after selling almost $50 million worth of shares in the defence tech company, whose share price fell by more than 15 per cent after the announcement on Wednesday. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Internet giants Google and @cloudflare.social have warned the encryption standards underpinning modern digital security may be broken by quantum machines sooner than expected. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

OPINION: "Relying on public fast chargers won’t be enough, as queues at chargers over Easter show," write UNSW researchers Bjorn Sturmberg and Arastoo Teymouri. "... In our new research, we lay out what a good kerbside network should look like." Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

A University of @sydney.edu.au researcher’s “blueprint” for quantum computing error correction developed while on an industry placement at IBM has been adopted by the global tech giant. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...