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Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says systems should soon be back online but business groups say companies may need days to recover * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says the company at the centre of the world’s largest ever IT outage has told the federal government it is close to an automatic fix which would allow systems to return online. The global outage on Friday afternoon occurred after the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike updated a widely used cloud-based software product called Falcon. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
July 21, 2024 / The Guardian | Technology
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Parliamentary inquiry told police forced to ‘cobble together’ laws to prosecute man who allegedly spread deepfake images of women * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A one-stop portal for victims to report AI deepfakes to police should be established, the federal police union has said, lamenting that police were forced to “cobble together” laws to charge the first person to face prosecution for spreading deepfake images of womenlast year. The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, introduced legislation in parliament in June that will create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
July 18, 2024 / The Guardian | Technology