Software, AI and IT insights
Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
A morning digest your team actually reads: AI-summarised news, spend and system health
Most Australian operations teams I talk to are subscribed to too much. Cloud billing alerts to one inbox, an uptime tool posting to a Slack channel, ad platform notifications to whoever set up the account three years…
#llm-summarisation#automation#monitoring#cloud-costs#prompt-design
Cloud posture on autopilot: continuously auditing AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365
Most of the cloud security incidents we get called into have nothing to do with a novel exploit. Someone opened a security group to 0.0.0.0/0 for a vendor's remote session and never closed it. A storage account got…
#cloud-security#microsoft-365#azure#aws#configuration-drift#continuous-compliance
Tracking search rankings and AI Overviews without an agency
The monthly agency deck lands, forty keywords are green, and somebody in the room asks the question the deck cannot answer: when a buyer asks ChatGPT or Gemini who does this work in Sydney, do we come up? Ranking well…
Document hygiene at scale: finding stale, duplicated and over-shared files
Most Microsoft 365 tenants we are asked to look at have the same shape. A few thousand active documents that people use every week, and somewhere behind them a much larger pile that nobody has opened since the project…
#sharepoint#onedrive#information-governance#data-retention#privacy
Supply-chain attacks: package cooldowns and policy checks for npm, PyPI and NuGet
On 4 August 2026, a self-propagating worm called ChainDrop tore through npm. BleepingComputer reported more than 1,300 compromised packages with about two billion monthly downloads between them, including keyv,…
#supply-chain-security#npm#dependency-management#devsecops#ci-cd
An AI blog pipeline with a human editor: how this post was made
This post was drafted by a machine. A person read it, changed things, and merged it before you saw it. Since we spend this series describing how other organisations should apply AI to marketing work, it seemed…
#ai-content#content-marketing#editorial-workflow#automation#transparency