Computer Science

Sam Altman says he is returning to OpenAI after being fired by the company and joining Microsoft only days ago.

Australian officials are increasingly worried about the Pacific's vulnerability to cyber attacks, with the government spending $26 million to set up "rapid assistance" teams made up of experts from the private sector and specialists from intelligence agencies like the Australian Signals Directorate.

As big tech invests billions in a race to control "the most powerful technology in the world", some of AI's inventors fear the future they've helped create.

Optus says "changes to routing information" after a "routine software upgrade" was behind last week's nationwide outage, affecting 10.2 million Australians and impacting 400,000 businesses.

Telecommunications experts warn Australia’s major mobile providers are vulnerable to another major outage due to gradual cost-cutting and a critical lack of regulation.

A year after a cyber attack exposed the personal details of millions of Optus customers, the telco boss is on another apology tour. She seems to have learned nothing, writes business editor Ian Verrender.

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says "a technical network fault" is to blame for the company's nationwide outage on Wednesday, but can't provide more information on the cause before conducting a deeper analysis.

Drones have been used to deliver pizzas, snap photographs and fight crime. Now, new approvals could see them being used to a greater degree in Australia's lucrative mining industry.

For the last few months, there's one question that I've been asked countless times: What do you think of AI? Here's what I've learned over months interviewing the top AI experts, writes James Purtill. 

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says capitalism is dead and that we are now "serfs" for the likes of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

A headless, tailless robot dog called Spot has the potential to make a big difference for people across the world with vision impairment, thanks to Queensland researchers. 

In January 2020, Robert Williams was wrongly arrested — the victim of a faulty artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system. Even as he fought to clear his name, the system continued operating.

Quantum computing components are a tenth of a width of a human hair and must be built in an environment 100 times colder than outer space.

A board game contest between human and machine in 2016 marked the birth of modern AI. This is the moment the world changed forever.

Tech giant Microsoft will help Australia build a "cyber shield" as part of a plan to sink billions of dollars into securing and expanding the national digital economy, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reveals on a trip to the US.

NFTs once seemed to offer a genuine utility to the art world. There's now hope that, through regulation, that promise can be fulfilled.

Pre-eminent quantum physicist Professor Simmons has spent decades at the cutting edge of scientific discovery.

Quantum physicist Michelle Simmons has been awarded the 2023 Prime Minister's Prize for Science for her role as a world leader in the race to harness the power of atoms to build super-fast computers. 

A recent Californian trial saw self-driving taxis crash into a fire truck and get bogged in wet cement. Such incidents erode trust in the technology, writes autonomous systems researcher Zena Assaad.

The European Union is considering a proposal which would force tech companies to make their apps less addictive.

The CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have used Age of Empires to simulate ant warfare, to figure out how to help native ant species fight their invasive counterparts.

Scientists use Age of Empires to simulate ant warfare, with the aim of helping native ant species better fight their invasive counterparts.

The online advertisement uses a digital version of the Oscar-winning actor's face and voice to promote dental insurance.

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — unveils new celebrity AI chatbots, smart glasses and a refreshed mixed reality headset.

Five years after researchers created a psychopathic algorithm to demonstrate bias and discrimination in artificial intelligence, we're still learning its lessons.