AI/Machine Learning

An Australian gaming company’s court case just rewrote the rules on inventions by computers being protected by copyright

- October 7, 2025 3 MIN READ

Artwork created by generative AI (genAI) and other software could be eligible for copyright protection, after a seven-year legal battle ended with a Federal Court ruling that gaming giant Aristocrat can patent game features created by its software without human input. The latest ruling – which follows years of appeals and counter-appeals between Aristrocrat and… Read more »

Funding

Audit of the federal government’s $466 million PsiQuantum deal declares it ‘appropriate’

- September 24, 2025 3 MIN READ

The federal department tasked with evaluating American firm PsiQuantum’s unsolicited proposal to build a quantum computer in Australia carried out an “appropriate” process despite minor issues with record keeping and planning for market testing, an internal audit has found. PsiQuantum proposed the build in November 2022, and its ultimately successful Brisbane plan — backed by… Read more »

Diversity

Is gender parity in tech still worth the effort?

- September 18, 2025 4 MIN READ

When tech trailblazer Ann Moffatt first joined the IT industry in 1959, there wasn’t a gender divide to speak of. “There were as many women programmers as men,” she recalled. However, things changed rapidly when men started to see technology as a real career. “They sort of pushed the women down, so that the women… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

A new survey reveals stress and burnout are growing among Australian cybersecurity workers because of AI

- September 4, 2025 2 MIN READ

Cybersecurity workers in Australia are losing more hours of productivity to stress and burnout than they were just a year ago, with artificial intelligence both helping and hindering the situation according to a survey commissioned by cybersecurity firm Sophos. Industry professionals have lost 4.8 hours per week to stress and burnout in 2025 — a… Read more »

Business

Company used laptops as ‘listening devices’ – now the employees are claiming unfair dismissal

- August 28, 2025 3 MIN READ

An Australian compliance training company has been accused of turning the laptops of its workers into listening devices to surveil them while they worked from home. Online compliance training provider Safetrac deployed employee monitoring software earlier this year that recorded the audio and screens of some of its workers, which picked up online team meetings… Read more »