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Dear Boss, you don’t want to lose me

I’ll walk if I need to. And I won’t look back.

Dr Ian Oppermann joins list of top 100 data innovators

ACS Immediate Past President recognised for his leadership.
Will the Great Resignation kill the mainframe at last?

With half of older tech workers leaving, who’ll keep the lights on?

Tesla posts second consecutive profitable year

Nearly doubles car production despite supply chain woes.
Meta is building a 16,000 GPU AI supercomputer

Will build AI models using massive data sets.
Don’t force employees back to office

It will likely backfire spectacularly.
The Aussie whose crypto fraud landed him in prison

Stefan He Qin took US$90 million from investors.
Atlassian wants to hire 5,000 Australian IT workers

It’s flexible working policy gives it a game-changing edge.
Russia declares war on crypto

Value of cryptocurrencies smashed.
Uber snaps up Aussie startup Car Next Door

Will continue to operate independently.
PM loses control of his WeChat account

Baseless allegations of Chinese social media censorship.
US joins digital currency wave

Central bank weighs value and risks of digital dollar.
EU passes rules for digital platforms

Eurozone wants to be fit for the digital age.
The fastest growing IT jobs in 2022

LinkedIn finds increased need for machine learning experts.
Telstra clamps down on SIM swapping fraud

Working with banks to identify potential criminal activity.
This software developer lives and works in a van

And he couldn’t be happier.
Border Force: Give us your phone

Software developer calls foul after phone confiscated.
Airlines cancel flights over 5G fears

Fears interference could cause “catastrophic disruption”.
Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $95b

Will own World of Warcraft and Call of Duty franchises.
AI to speed up sickness diagnoses

Founders believe it can save lives.
Online retailers ban RAT sales amid shortage

ACCC said it is concerned about price gouging.
RBA must tread carefully with digital currency

Central bank digital currency project could be destabilising.
Use unlicensed software at your peril

How to avoid a $1.1m damages bill.
CES 2022: Biting robots and colour-changing cars

Attendance down but innovation continues.
ACS urges government to protect personal data

Submission to Privacy Act review puts individual rights first.
Winning the war for talent in 2022

How does a $50,000 pay rise sound?
Writing a business strategy is easy

Delivering on it is much harder, says one disrupting startup.
Is AI superintelligence a threat to humanity?

One expert says yes.
Tesla update lets passengers play while moving

In-car video games flagged by safety regulators.
Tech trends to watch in 2022

Get ready for the metaverse.
Give a gift to a lonely senior

Tech targets aged-care residents spending holidays alone.
Your top 12 stories of 2021

These are the biggest stories you read this year.
ACS announces 2021 Fellows and Honorary Life Members

For distinguished service to the IT sector.
JPMorgan hit with $280m fine for using WhatsApp

Slammed over widespread failure to keep accurate business records.
Government can soon delete links from Google

eSafety Commissioner has power to scrub internet content.
National AI Centre to anchor Australian industry

But expert calls mere $124.1m commitment “troubling”.
Tech Council to work closely with ACS

Both want to make Australia a technology powerhouse.
ACS names Awards finalists

The big event will be held on 23 February.
New ethical AI institute launches

Former lead of Google's Ethical AU team goes it alone.
Big Tech facing new regulations

Digital services and markets will have new rules in EU.
Employees less willing to go ‘above and beyond’

Significant turnover problem in IT.
Little oversight over Notifiable Data Breach scheme

OAIC has completed just three breach audits since 2018.
Your phone could soon stay charged for a week

Breakthrough vertical transistor tech is extremely energy efficient.
Parenting and working in tech is tough

How one woman’s employer made it work for her.
Cracked screens may soon be obsolete

Could also pave the way for lighting and solar cell innovation.
Government to ask young people about online safety

Will set up advisory council to help form public policy.
Australia’s crypto industry could add $68.4b to economy

Larger than the tourism and energy sectors by 2030.
Log4Shell 'biggest vulnerability in computing history'

Easily exploitable logging library triggers global panic.
Truth kept in dark on CS Energy security incident

Rush to attribution is distracting from the real issues.
The Grinch bots that stole Christmas

Predatory bots are snapping up in-demand tech.
Elon Musk is Time’s 2021 Person of the Year

Describes him as a "clown, genius, visionary, showman, cad”.
80,000 SA govt employees exposed to data breach

Third party payroll service hit by ransomware.
High school ‘too late’ to start teaching cyber

Experts warn unis are failing overwhelmed teachers.
2022 ACS Indigenous Scholarship announced

Taimur Rind awarded scholarship for network studies.
ACS Constitutional Review Group delivers report

Provides input to a new constitution.
1m Windows machines caught in Glupteba botnet

Google knocks it offline, launches lawsuit against Russian hackers.
Empowering autistic leaders to thrive

How an inclusive workplace rewards employees.
Frydenberg: cryptocurrency reform is coming soon

Well, consultations will be over by mid-2022 at least.
Global Talent visas prove popular

More than 1,140 applications lodged in two years.
Aussie DAO looks to disrupt music with NFTs

MODA is a music ecosystem on the blockchain.
Judo proves banks really can be agile

Neobank’s cloud approach finally pays dividends.
Can quantum head off a skills gap?

As IBM raises quantum bar, sector needs skills pipeline.
Global internet is a ‘fiction’: Meta

Private, government interests are calling the shots.
250 international students arrive in Sydney

Universities thrilled to see valuable students return.
How to score Australia’s most in-demand developers

Does your workplace have an appetite for innovation?
Crime scene DNA used to ‘sketch’ suspects

AFP using controversial prediction technology.
250 international students arrive in Sydney

Universities thrilled to see valuable students return.
Govt prepares surveillance law reforms

Begins work on fixing "unnecessarily complex" laws.
'Australian Nakamoto' survives $71b Bitcoin lawsuit

But Craig Wright must pay $100m in damages.
Half of workers hide mental condition

Say wellbeing initiatives are merely a tick-boxing exercise.
Buy-now-pay-later debts explode

Financial counsellors see increase in BNPL hardship.
Bionic eye offers restored vision hope

High-tech device tricks the brain into ‘seeing’.
How 10xers can help beat tech talent crunch

And what you should do if you ever find one.
You can’t build diversity inclusion change in a day

Carsales MD says it should be a business priority.
NSW bank-raiding AI was “unlawful”: Ombudsman

Took money from accounts without consent.
Technology is killing our shared reality

Nobel Peace Prize winner issues warning about social media.
The Australian central banker who holds Bitcoin

Officially sceptical but personally invested.