Tag: Tech

New Australian Agency Setup for Future Cyber Threats

A national coordinator will deal with large-scale data breaches and cyber hacks in Australia from now on under the Labor government’s plan to counteract cybersecurity problems. Last year, major Australian organisations were targeted in a series of cyber-attacks—following the Ukraine War—that saw the personal data of millions exposed online, including driver’s licence and Medicare details….


Australia Is Building Its First ‘Smart City’

With the help of American multinational digital communications technology corporation Cisco, Australia is transforming Newcastle into its first digitally active ‘smart city.’ Smart cities are innovative and digitised model cities that promise high-tech infrastructure, better broadband coverage, and transparency by unifying otherwise disparate data of city maintenance and governance into a single database. Newcastle council’s smart…


World’s Largest Coal Port to Transform Into ‘Smart City’

With the help of American multinational digital communications technology corporation Cisco, Australia is transforming Newcastle into its first digitally active ‘smart city.’ Smart cities are innovative and digitised model cities that promise high-tech infrastructure, better broadband coverage, and transparency by unifying otherwise disparate data of city maintenance and governance into a single database. Newcastle council’s smart…


Constitution Versus Big Tech: Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed a Digital Bill of Rights to protect Florida residents from Big Tech overreach. The digital age has led to what many see as the infringement of Americans’ First Amendment rights. The Constitution’s founders viewed the right to speak freely as natural law. Fast forward to 2016, then 2020, and…


TikTok Banned in European Union’s Governing Bodies Over Security Concerns

The Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok has been banned in the two biggest policy-making institutions of the European Union over concerns about cybersecurity and promotion of Beijing’s agenda overseas. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been widely criticized for its toxic content and is banned by several countries as well as 25 U.S….


Biden Issues Executive Order Promoting Equity Using ‘Woke AI’

President Joe Biden has approved an executive order that directs federal agencies to use artificial intelligence to achieve “equity” objectives—a move observers are warning is equivalent to integrating a “woke AI” into the government. “When designing, developing, acquiring, and using artificial intelligence and automated systems in the Federal Government, agencies shall do so, consistent with…


Qualcomm Announces Software Business Around Its Supply Chain Chips

Qualcomm Inc. on Tuesday said it is launching a paid cloud software service to help companies that use its chips keep tabs on goods as they move through the supply chain. The San Diego, California company is the world’s biggest provider of chips that help smartphones connect to mobile data networks. But Qualcomm has used…


2023 Tech Layoffs on Pace to Surpass 2022 by 300 Percent

Around 109,000 tech industry employees from 392 different technology firms have been laid off since the start of 2023, according to the industry employment tracking website Layoffs.Fyi. Earlier this month, the computer company Dell announced plans to cut about 6,650 employees, in a plan to reduce its workforce by about five percent. Last month Google…


2023 Tech Layoffs on Pace to Surpass Last Year’s by 300 Percent

Around 109,000 technology industry employees from 392 companies have been laid off since the start of the year, according to the industry employment tracking website Layoffs.Fyi. At the current pace, around 650,000 tech employees could lose their current jobs, which is about a 300 percent increase from 2022, when 160,997 people got pink slips, according…


AI-Powered Robots’ Limited Capabilities Still Open Exciting, Scary Futures

While intelligent robots aren’t likely to take over the world anytime soon, they could change key domains of modern civilization, boosting economic efficiency and day-to-day convenience while unleashing ample potential for misuse, according to several experts. Recent years have seen the world rocked with riveting advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, from ChatGPT composing poetry…