Cloud stories
Security and privacy worries are pushing more firms towards contractors, with AI and cyber skills among the hardest to hire in Australia and New Zealand.
The programme aims to fill a shortage of engineers able to turn AI pilots into live business systems, backed by USD $100 million.
Duplicate records are inflating storage bills, slowing pipelines and skewing reports as organisations pull in data from ever more systems.
The update lets Windows users run bigger AI models on-device, as AMD bids to make local processing a rival to cloud-based services.
AI is already making cyber attacks faster and cheaper, while quantum computing could soon put trust in data and payments at risk.
Hiring by security vendors jumped 43% last quarter as AI and a tougher threat environment widened the split with slowing enterprise software roles.
The compact desktop is aimed at businesses and developers wanting faster, private on-device AI, while reducing reliance on cloud services.
Threats are now spanning identities, cloud and software supply chains, with AI speeding attacks and complicating defence, Microsoft says.
Rising cyber threats and ageing systems are leaving utilities exposed, with only about a third of leaders feeling ready for external risks.
The new service lets users delegate ongoing work to persistent agents that can act across apps, raising fresh privacy and control questions.
AI chipmakers can cut die-to-die link area, power and I/O by up to 50% as multi-die designs become harder to scale.
Governance gaps may slow AI deployment as marketing and IT disagree over who controls shared content and platform decisions.
The deal aims to give governments and businesses AI tools built for local language, compliance and digital public infrastructure needs.
The tie-up could help data centre builders in South Korea source cabling, connectors and power systems from one supplier group.
The overhaul should cut manual processing and give miners a single digital route for licences, compliance, royalties and approvals across South Australia.
Three-quarters of US enterprise IT leaders say business-critical updates are arriving faster than they can test them, raising continuity risks.
The appointment adds AI and cloud expertise to Vertex's board as tax and compliance software vendors race to automate back-office work.
Australia's cyber strategy is shifting as firms race to control AI agents, with June's Medicare portal incident exposing fresh integrity risks.
The platform meant to cut response times for teams wrestling with faster AI-driven release cycles, and one early customer surfaced 328 incidents in two months.
Rising cloud update cycles are leaving many enterprise IT teams unable to verify critical software changes before they hit operations.
