Stories by George Nott

Laptops holding 30 years’ worth of applicant data were stolen from the University of Western Australia late last month, the university’s vice-chancellor revealed at the weekend.

​From August, travellers will be able to use credit and debit cards as well as linked devices in place of Opal cards on Sydney’s bus network.

​Australia’s fastest supercomputer is about to get 10-times more powerful, thanks to a multi-million dollar upgrade to be delivered by Fujitsu Australia.

​A hub providing practical advice to Queensland manufacturers on how to apply robotics and automation to their businesses is to launch in Brisbane.

​A number of Australian businesses have been forced to close down due to losses sustained in a social engineered email scam, the Australian Cyber Security Centre has revealed.

​The Commonwealth Bank of Australia operated online stockbroking firm Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) has launched an app for people who are “new to the share market and want a simpler investing experience”.

​NBN Co has today passed the milestone of 10 million homes and businesses being able to connect to the network.

​Each year, Victoria’s Magistrates' Court and Children's Court manages between more than 300,000 cases – resulting in the vast majority of criminal convictions in the state.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is using Google search activity to help it forecast household spending trends.

​Microsoft Australia has signed a ten year lease on office space in what will be the tallest building in North Sydney.

Atlassian moves beyond performance reviews that “over-emphasise delivery of results and ignore behaviours that can take a toll on team health and company culture”.

​Fujitsu has launched a Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Canberra, targeting federal and state government customers.

​Melbourne Business School (MBS) programs are regularly ranked among the best in the world, with alumni including the CEOs and chairpersons of Qantas, Telstra, Australia Post and the AFL.

​A Telstra backed platform which claims to hold “the largest data-set of people’s behaviour in the real-world” has raised $143M in a Series D funding round.

Organisations working with artificial intelligence and machine learning have an average of four projects underway, and plan to add 15 more within the next three years, according to a Gartner survey.