Former chief scientist Cathy Foley has been appointed the next president of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), replacing outgoing president Katherine Woodthorpe.

For decades, Australian policy has been anchored on a familiar refrain: universities must do more to engage with the end-users of research. The underlying assumption has been that if universities ...

Greens Senator David Shoebridge is warning neither Labor or the Coalition are willing to engage on almost any effective tech policy as the government prepares to “let rip” on AI and a social media ban ...

Crumbling technology, design flaws and gaping governance gaps in the federal government’s punitive welfare compliance system mean the appropriateness of its automated decisions can not be assured. The ...

Australia’s peak technology industry body has used a new report to call on the Albanese government to declare its ambition for Australia to become a regional hub for global AI development and back it ...

The Western Australian government has appointed a new 13-member Science and Technology Council to steer the growth of the state's research and innovation ecosystem. Chaired by newly appointed WA Chief ...

CyberCX, one of Australia's biggest privately-owned cybersecurity firms, will be acquired by tech consulting giant Accenture less than six years after it formed to challenge the US behemoths. Subject ...

Federal government agencies may have barely scratched the surface with artificial intelligence, but those that have are increasingly finding themselves trapped in AI 'PoC hell’. That’s according to ...

US President Donald Trump upended decades of US national security policy, creating an entirely new category of corporate risk, when he made a deal with Nvidia to give the US government a cut of its ...

A privacy expert who advised on Australia’s age assurance technology trial has broken ranks to raise serious concerns about the methodology and conclusions, casting further doubt on the exercise. As ...

Catherine Livingstone has one of the best business brains in the country, and ahead of the economic roundtable in Canberra next week she has called for a bold, system-level approach to the economic ...

More than a dozen organisations have secured NSW government funding to run innovation connection initiatives across the state, starting Thursday night in Sydney. Part of a Minns government effort to ...