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Australia's security agency ASIO is sounding a serious alarm today, confirming that nation-state hackers have already burrowed into the networks of critical infrastructure providers, positioning themselves to cause disruption at a moment of their choosing. ASIO says it has now stood up dedicated teams to counter the threat, a sign this is no longer a hypothetical risk.
Shifting to the question dominating boardrooms everywhere, the chairman of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, is pushing back against fears that AI-driven coding tools will hollow out the services industry. His argument is that writing software has always been about more than the code itself — requirements, judgment, relationships — and that technology transitions historically expand the work, not eliminate it.
And in the robotics world, a German court has issued a preliminary injunction against Elite Robots Germany, blocking distribution of products found to infringe on Universal Robots software. The case raises a question the industry will have to answer honestly — when machines learn by copying, who owns what they learned, and does it matter?
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