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1. BOM app makes rain forecasts more understandable: (Apps); The BOM Weather app has been updated to make rainfall forecasts easier to understand. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the app is used by millions of Australians, and the daily rainfall forecast ...; Created on 15 July 2022
2. Developing a culture of cyber resilience in Australia's public secto: (Guest Opinion); ... public entities. One of the most high profile attacks hit the Bureau of Meteorology in 2015. It was only a year later that the Australian Signals Directorate released details, saying "CryptoLocker ransomware ...; Created on 22 June 2022
3. Bureau of Meteorology adds notifications feature on their weather app: (Climate); The Bureau of Meteorology has introduced push notifications on its BOM Weather app to provide more targeted advice to communities during severe weather. A push notification is now available on the ...; Created on 19 May 2022
4. CSIRO and Microsoft Australia launch Microsoft FarmBeats to encourage digital agriculture among students: (Strategy); ... part of the Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) digital platform developed by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology to deliver predicted climate information at a 5 km² resolution. Information about ...; Created on 09 May 2022
5. CSIRO and NSW Rural Fire Service develop model that can predict bushfires: (Government Tech); ... and firefighters often have to battle steep terrain and challenging conditions just to reach the fire,” Dr Sullivan says. Data inputs such as forecast weather and wind information come from the Bureau ...; Created on 14 December 2021
6. Total lunar eclipse Wednesday evening this week: (Space); ... some degree of eclipse but will observe the remainder of the event. It will be invisible across all of Europe and Africa. The best view is centred on the Pacific. Forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology ...; Created on 24 May 2021
7. BoM says issues with textmode browser lynx fixed; no mention of others: (Climate); The Australian Bureau of Meteorology says it has fixed the issues that prevented users of the textmode browser lynx from accessing its website. Many sight-impaired readers use lynx and other text-based ...; Created on 04 May 2021
8. Sight-impaired people hit as BoM blocks some textmode browsers: (Climate); The Bureau of Meteorology has started blocking the text browsers lynx and w3m from accessing its website, preventing many sight-impaired readers from using the site. Many sight-impaired readers use ...; Created on 30 April 2021
9. Govt climbs down, Facebook to restore Australian news pages: (Technology Regulation); ... or stop allowing news content on our services in Australia. With a heavy heart, we are choosing the latter." The Bureau of Meteorology Facebook page with its news feed restored. Screenshot taken at ...; Created on 23 February 2021
10. Viber makes pitch for Australians to use its platform instead of Facebook: (Home Tech); ... Viber, whose media release notes that "The Australian people recently discovered that Facebook blocked access to a handful of news sources, as well as providers of information about vaccines. The Bureau ...; Created on 22 February 2021
11. Is today the day the Facebook starts MySpacing itself?: (Fuzzy Logic); OPINION: With Facebook now blocking Australian news sites from posting their news stories to Facebook, along with many organisations like the Australian Bureau of Meteorology an unexpected casualty, has ...; Created on 18 February 2021
12. Met office among sites blocked as Facebook ban bites in Australia: (Technology Regulation); The Facebook pages of the Bureau of Meteorology and numerous government organisations are among those that cannot be viewed after the social media firm instituted a ban on Australian publishers and people ...; Created on 18 February 2021
13. Tech firm alleges Macquarie Telecom copied its product and misled clients: (Business Software); ... AlexDemo, Australian Federal Police, APCMA, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Government Solicitors, Australian National Audit Office, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Australian Securities ...; Created on 06 October 2020
14. Vocus signs three-year deal to provide national services for ATO: (Business Telecommunications); ... delivered a contracts for the Bureau of Meteorology, the Department of Finance’s Government Network Services Branch, Department of Treasury, Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Department ...; Created on 21 September 2020
15. Vocus claims it has become top provider of NBN Enterprise Ethernet services: (Telecoms & NBN); ... state, national and international boundaries. Included were deals with the Bureau of Meteorology, Northern Minerals, South Australia Health and NSW Health, for which Vocus was using both its own network ...; Created on 21 July 2020
16. Australia's newest Top500 supercomputer highly ranke: (Hardware); ... on the project include the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University - all expect to utilise the system to its fullest capacity. "Gadi will give researchers ...; Created on 23 June 2020
17. Vocus lands $15m deal to expand contract with BoM: (Business Telecommunications); The Vocus Group has signed a $15.695 million deal with the Bureau of Meteorology, meaning that its existing arrangement with the agency is more or less doubled. A statement from the company said under ...; Created on 19 February 2020
18. Fujitsu to deliver Australia’s ‘most powerful’ new supercomputer: (Development); ... the CSIRO, Geosciences Australia, and the Bureau of Meteorology benefiting from faster speeds and higher capacity compared to the existing supercomputer. Professor Brian Schmidt, Vice-Chancellor, The ...; Created on 29 July 2019
19. Unisys secures deal with Bureau of Meteorology: (Cloud); Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has inked a contract with IT solutions provider Unisys to design, build and manage new secure cloud infrastructure and an upgraded wide area network to better support current ...; Created on 25 July 2019
20. ARENA, AEMO boost wind, solar energy industry with $9.41m in funding: (Energy); ... crunching of Bureau of Meteorology data and machine learning algorithms. ARENA chief executive Darren Miller said these trials would provide test cases for wind and solar to do their own five-minute ...; Created on 18 March 2019
21. Australian winter will disappear by 2050, ANU team claims: (Climate); ... weather there will be like in 2050. It uses data from the Bureau of Meteorology and Scientific Information for Land Owners and shows by how many degrees the average temperature will rise in each location ...; Created on 11 March 2019
22. CSIRO promotes STEM careers to school students: (Science); ... the CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and Defence Science and Technology will visit schools along with more than 50 MPs. CSIRO astrophysicist Dr Karen Lee-Waddell, who is among the scientists taking part, ...; Created on 10 August 2018
23. BoM staff make wage appeal public – very public: (Strategy); Staff at the Bureau of Meteorology have made their dissatisfaction with their pay known – and chosen the daily weather forecasts to inform the public about the issue. On Wednesday morning, the Melbourne ...; Created on 27 June 2018
24. Roseanne's face appears on BoM site, but hack denie: (Security); The face of disgraced American television star Roseanne Barr suddenly appeared in all its glory in the most unlikely of places on Thursday: as a radar image on the website of the Bureau of Meteorology. ...; Created on 01 June 2018
25. 5G gets closer: ACMA consults on 5G spectrum auction arrangements: (Telecoms & NBN); ... the Bureau of Meteorology up to and well beyond the auction process to address their concerns’ O’Loughlin continued. The ACMA has also released a draft five-year spectrum outlook 2018–22 for feedback. ...; Created on 18 May 2018
26. Regional Australians ‘disadvantaged’ by latest spectrum auction: Labor: (Business Telecommunications); ... used by the Bureau of Meteorology is highly problematic. “Squeezing WISPs onto a narrow band of spectrum currently used by BOM for an essential service such as weather radar is not without risks of interference.” ...; Created on 12 March 2018
27. Australia to host global spectrum meeting: (Business Telecommunications); ... from the Department of Defence, CSIRO, Airservices Australia, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Bureau of Meteorology and industry technical experts. Australia successfully hosted a similar preparatory ...; Created on 06 March 2018
28. CSIRO undertakes voyage to understand ocean impact on climate: (Climate); ... explore interaction between aerosols and clouds. Bureau of Meteorology project leader Dr Alain Protat said the experiments would use aircraft, ship-based and satellite observations to collect detailed ...; Created on 16 January 2018
29. Millennials ‘greatest’ security risk to data in workplace: study: (Security); ... a recent, high-profile stinging attack on the country’s Bureau of Meteorology. Cyber crime alone poses a real threat in Australia, with the Australian Crime Commission estimating the annual cost of cyber ...; Created on 12 July 2017
30. Bush radio a primary source of information for WA’s remote area residents: (Strategy); ... with 62% of remote Western Australians tuning in to local ABC radio to get up-to-date information in an emergency, after the Bureau of Meteorology (74$) and fire and emergency services (72%). The most ...; Created on 09 May 2017
31. Privileged account security explained: (Security); ... the federal government confirmed Australian Bureau of Meteorology computer systems had been compromised – more troubling as the Bureau owns one of the country's largest supercomputers and has links to many ...; Created on 30 November 2016
32. CeBIT focus on cyber security at 2017 conference: (Security); ... Process, Lion; Dr Lesley Seebeck, deputy director Information Systems and Services & CIO, Bureau of Meteorology; Angela Coble, director Business Technology (CIO) Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson; Dr ...; Created on 23 November 2016
33. Met attack not as 'massive' as reporte: (Security); An intrusion into the Bureau of Meteorology's network last year was not half as "massive" as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation tried to make it out to be. Instead, the details of the incident, ...; Created on 13 October 2016
34. Boost to remote, rural communications services from Optus, Ursys alliance: (Telecoms & NBN); ... including NT Connect for the Local Government Association of Northern Territory communities, South Pacific Tsunami Warning Network for the Bureau of Meteorology, a national satellite-based Scada network ...; Created on 11 July 2016
35. Ukraine blackouts should never have happened: (Security); ... the Bureau of Meteorology had suffered an "intrusion" last year, while energy networks have been of particular interest to cyber attackers, with at least 60 incidents in 2014-15. We present De Laine’s ...; Created on 23 May 2016
36. Government’s Cyber Security Strategy – free security check-ups for ANZ Business: (Security); ... costs. High profile intrusions since 2015 have included Kmart, David Jones, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Australian Government Parliamentary Services. However, ...; Created on 16 May 2016
37. Australia to get new climate science centre: (Climate); ... and Science has agreed that an independent National Climate Science Advisory Committee will be established. The Committee will have representation from CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and other experts ...; Created on 26 April 2016
38. Federal Government releases cybersecurity strategy: (Government Tech Policy); ... the attack on the Bureau of Meteorology was indeed the target of a cyber attack provides compelling evidence that governments need to make a fundamental shift in their overall security strategies. "Historically, ...; Created on 21 April 2016
39. BoM hack: silence since those first reports: (Open Sauce); Around the beginning of December, there were reports, mostly attributed to nameless sources, that the supercomputer at the Bureau of Meteorology had been the target of an intrusion. Fingers were pointed ...; Created on 17 December 2015
40. Weather forecasting just got better- much better: (Climate); More accurate and more frequent weather forecasts will now be delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology with the bureau now given access to the Himawari-8 satellite, the most advanced dedicated weather satellite ...; Created on 01 October 2015
41. Lunar Eclipse Tonight: (Space); ... Reports from the Bureau of Meteorology suggest that Melbourne skies will be clear tonight. Unfortunately, it seems Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane will be rained out, while Perth, Adelaide and Hobart will ...; Created on 04 April 2015
42. Bureau of Meteorology to upgrade its supercomputer: (Climate); Australia's government-run weather experts the Bureau of Meterology will purchase a new supercomputer and datacentre following a datalink upgrade, boosting speeds from 80 gigabits per second to 200. This ...; Created on 19 August 2014
43. Turnbull, government push open data with National Map: (Government Tech Policy); ... by the Department of Communications, NICTA and Geoscience Australia, while the datasets are sourced from Geoscience Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the government' ...; Created on 09 July 2014
44. nearmap adds solar energy planning tool: (Business Telecommunications); ... a solar system. nearmap Solar also takes into consideration the angle of the panels, the latitude of the site, and Bureau of Meteorology records for temperature and cloud for the area. A database ...; Created on 10 April 2014
45. Simon Hackett spreads his wings with AvPlan: (Deals); ... “You can superimpose weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology, including pop-up airport weather forecasts. You can even superimpose your geo-referenced instrument approach plate right onto the moving ...; Created on 12 November 2013
46. Australia’s most powerful computer unveiled: (Deals); ... by a $50 million grant under the Australian Government’s Super Science Initiative. Raijin’s speed is taking the Australia’s research capacity to new levels with Commonwealth agencies such as the Bureau ...; Created on 31 July 2013
47. Dell secures contract to supply science cloud to NCI: (Deals); Dell has secured a $2 million contract to supply a 3,200 core high-performance compute cloud to the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). The agreement will see the establishment of a node of ...; Created on 23 July 2013
48. New Chairman for NBN Co: (People Moves); ... Ballet since May 2010 and was an Advisory Board Member of the Bureau of Meteorology. (… and before we get any pedants telling us that McKenna can’t be a Chairman because she’s not a man, this is not ...; Created on 22 March 2013
49. How many bites are you at risk from?...check the new Mozzie Index online!: (Development); ... “first Mozzie Index today, Aerogard says the Index is based on environmental and climatic data like rainfall, tides, and temperature, provided by Bureau of Meteorology for over 70 regions across Australia. ...; Created on 03 December 2012
50. Government’s cyber security project selects Macquarie Telecom: (Security); ... Division Australian Bureau of Meteorology Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority Department of Innovation Industry, Science, ...; Created on 04 October 2012

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