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Dell’Oro Group revised its data centre capex forecast upward to a 24% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2028 as a result of surging demand in AI-related data centre infrastructure.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is giving six months to the internet industry to come up with enforceable codes detailing how it will protect children from inappropriate content or material online such as pornography.

Vodafone announced it has landed subsea cable system 2Africa in Bude, Cornwell, in the UK to bring connections to billions of people.

Industry giants AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new industry standard called UALink enabling interconnection for data centre grade AI and HPC accelerators and rivaling software company Nvidia's NVLink.

News alert! Google has just renewed what News Corporation calls a "lucrative deal". Expect some unstinting praise about the search giant to appear in the august columns of The Australian over the next couple of weeks.

When will the Federal Government start telling the public the truth about the situation it faces with Facebook, after the social media giant declared, on 29 February, that it would not be renewing deals it had struck in 2021 with Australian media companies, and then followed up by shutting its news tab in Australia?

China has ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp and Threads, both owned by Meta, from its app store in the country, the New York Times reports.

GUEST OPINION:  When an outage or disruption occurs, there’s immediate uncertainty as to what happened, where and why. Uncertainty is inevitable in the early stages of any outage while root cause analysis is underway.

GUEST RESEARCH: Bitdefender’s research into the campaign has found cybercriminals first take over an existing Facebook account then abuse Meta’s ad network to run ads that promote popular AI software/services with enticing call-to-action to click on links which redirect to malicious websites.

Automation and security company Infoblox’s report has revealed threat actor Savvy Seahorse, a perpetrator of online cybercriminal investment scam websites, operating for at least since 2021 and targeting victims including people in ANZ.

Facebook parent Meta has decided to pull the plug on Australian media deals it did three years ago, with the company saying on Thursday it would deprecate Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news, in April.

GUEST RESEARCH: Social and media intelligence provider Meltwater and creative agency We Are Social have released Digital 2024 Australia, their latest annual report providing an in-depth analysis of the country's digital, social, and e-commerce landscape.

Worldwide data centre capex is forecast at a CAGR growth rate of 18% as investments shift towards AI and it is expected to exceed US$200 billion by 2028, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Australia’s competition watchdog the ACCC has welcomed the Australian Government’s in-principle agreement to new competition and consumer laws recommended by the ACCC to address harms caused by digital platforms, and the potential benefits to consumers and small businesses from the regulatory changes.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been catapulted into the spotlight this year with the launch of ChatGPT, and the subsequent release of large language models like Google Bard and Meta’s Llama.

Processor manufacturer AMD says AI is the most transformational technology in 50 years, and that the biggest driver of this has been generative AI. However, the amazing things AI can achieve are constrained by the availability and capability of GPUs - so, to accelerate AI, AMD has today announced its brand new AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, bringing the highest performance in the world for generative AI.

The continued expansion of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft into emerging technologies and other markets demonstrates the critical need for regulatory reform, according to Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC.

COMPANY NEWS: Autodesk today unveiled Autodesk Workshop XR, an immersive design review workspace connected to Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).

US-based telco vendor Aira Technologies claimed it has developed RanGPT, a capability that allows mobile network operators (MNOs) to leverage conversational AI to query and control RAN.

The Meta family of apps—Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger—request the most data from smartphone users, according to research from data centre company TRG Datacenters.