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Australia’s Cloud Computing Growth to Reach $81 Billion by 2029
According to a new report, cloud computing was worth between $9 billion and $10 billion to the Australian economy from 2022 to 2023. However, continued enterprise cloud migrations and a boom in AI computing could push its annual contribution to GDP up to $81 billion by 2029. The report, endorsed by the Australian Information Industry Association and compiled by DT…
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More women are opting for computing degrees, but BCS warns there’s still a long way to go
Efforts to encourage women into computing appear to be paying off, with the gap between men and women choosing computing degrees the smallest it’s ever been. Analysis of data from university clearing service UCAS by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has found that a record 6,310 UK women started a computing degree at UK universities in 2024, compared with…
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Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements
Google’s quantum computing lab just achieved a major milestone. On Monday, the company revealed that its new quantum computing chip, Willow, is capable of performing a computing challenge in less than five minutes — a process Google says would take one of the world’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, or longer than the age of the universe. Along with more…
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How Mondra is targeting food net zero using Microsoft Azure cloud computing
As firms across the world aim to meet net zero targets, it’s become increasingly clear that leaders need a better understanding of the carbon footprint of their entire supply chain rather than just their immediate emissions. Scope 3 emissions, which are currently optional to report, refer to those produced by all the entities in an organization’s supply chain. While tracking…
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The CIO’s quantum leap into the cloud: Integrating quantum computing into cloud infrastructure
As a CIO, I’ve always believed in transformation through innovation. This is more than a buzzword to put in your technology bingo card. Transformation through innovation involves a change in mindset as to how we action information, resolve complex problems, and improve organizational processes and objectives. We are at a time of another technological revolution with respect to the understanding…
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Google Updates Confidential Computing Portfolio
On Oct. 2, Google announced several new entries in their portfolio of VM services for enterprise clouds. The tech giant’s Confidential VMs use hardware-based encryption to secure data and applications, ensuring they cannot be tampered with. Google provides several Confidential VM products and services. “The ability to encrypt data anywhere helps to alleviate concerns about third-party access to data, removing…
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IBM on Future Cybersecurity: Passkeys, Deepfakes, Quantum Computing
“The internet will be a lot safer in five years than it is today, thanks to technological advances that address common problems at scale.” This prediction by Chris Hockings, CTO of IBM Asia Pacific, might seem a bit ambitious given that AI-powered cybercrime is growing at an exponential rate, deepfake technology is enhancing social engineering attacks, and the power of…
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AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’
“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the coffee maker to get busy — and Sal’s morning has begun. This scenario was described by Mark Weiser, a computer scientist and the CTO at Xerox PARC in 1991 when he wrote a…
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The gender gap in computing education is closing, but there’s still work to be done
The number of women studying computing at degree level continues to rise steadily, though there’s still a large gender gap. According to analysis from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2,940 18-year-old women living in the UK have accepted a place to study the subject this September, up 8% from the 2023-24 academic year. The gender gap is also closing,…
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NIST releases first encryption tools to resist quantum computing
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first three encryption standards designed to resist future cyberattacks based on quantum computing technology. The agency encourages system administrators to start the transition to the new algorithms as soon as possible, since timely adoption is paramount for protecting sensitive information from attackers with a retrospective decryption strategy, also referred…
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