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• ANU details findings of data breach

  A cyber attack that saw an unauthorised actor gain access to Australia National University (ANU)'s network for six weeks has shocked the country's most experienced security experts, new findings reveal.

• Phishers hit ACU, compromised systems

  The Australian Catholic University says that a number of staff email accounts and some of its systems have been compromised after a successful phishing campaign.

• Hackers hit ANU, access ‘significant amounts’ of student, staff data

  The vice-chancellor of the Australian National University has revealed that “significant amounts” of sensitive information relating to ANU staff, students and visitors was accessed during a data breach.

• Minister makes no vetoes in latest ARC funding round

  ​Education Minister Dan Tehan did not use his powers of veto and approved all grants recommended by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in the latest round of funding.

• ANU plans boost to AI research

  The Australian National University has announced a new institute to tackle complex problems related to artificial intelligence.

• NCI supercomputing facility names new director

  ​World renowned computational chemist and nanomaterials scientist Professor Sean Smith has been named as the next director of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

• Australia's supercomputers need 'urgent' refresh, or life-saving research at risk

  The whitefly is having a devastating effect across East Africa by spreading viruses to the cassava plant, a staple food in the region.

• ANU team’s ‘fairytale fix’ to cut DC energy consumption while improving responsiveness

  Every nanosecond can count when you’re offering web services. When it comes to search, games, stock-trading and social media, latency is unacceptable.

• New hard drive to teleport quantum states for 6 hours

  Physicists at the Australian National University and University of Otago have developed a prototype hard drive that can store gigabytes of quantum data for six hours, making it easier to send the data across the globe.

• ANU awarded research grant for Skymapper telescope

  The Australian National University (ANU) has been awarded a $390,000 research grant for its Southern Sky Survey of stars and galaxies in the southern hemisphere, scheduled to start in the next couple of months.

• Photonic chip aims to boost data transmission speeds

  University of Sydney postgraduate student, Trung Duc Vo, has recently broken the barrier on data transmission speeds with the development of a photonic transmitter chip for Ethernet networks.

• Govt brews national cloud for science

  Australian scientists will have access to a multi-million dollar national cloud network and $50 million towards a petabyte supercomputer and data centre within three to five years under slated improvements to the nation's grid networks.