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• Geoscience Australia works to secure positioning infrastructure from hackers

  Geoscience Australia has begun a formal process seeking information that will aid its development of a cyber security strategy to protect a new ultra-precise positioning system.

• Former CSIRO manager faces court over alleged $400,000 spending spree

  A former CSIRO manager today faced a Canberra court for allegedly fraudulently using government funds to make more than $400,000 worth of personal purchases.

• Microsoft launches Azure DevOps bug bounty program

  Microsoft has launched a new bug bounty program focused on Azure DevOps Services.

• Driverless shuttle and ‘smart bus stop’ trial launches in SA

  ​A six month trial which pairs a self-driving shuttle bus and two ‘autonomous smart transit hubs’ has launched at Holdfast Bay in Adelaide.

• Microsoft expands Windows 7-to-Windows 10 app compatibility pledge

  Microsoft this week announced that an application compatibility guarantee it gave to enterprises migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 has gone global.

• IBM calls time on Slack-rival Watson Workspace

  The decision means more consolidation for the collaboration market; IBM says its team chat app failed to ‘resonate’ with users.

• Start-up Devvio claims its blockchain can handle 8M transactions a second

  The new blockchain protocol, Devv, was demoed at CES; backers say it outperforms other distributed ledger technologies and traditional financial networks such as VisaNet. Analysts are skeptical.

• Oracle Java Card updated for IoT applications

  Java Card is a software technology providing isolation between secure hardware and software services

• Facial recognition tech helping place faces from the past

  Here's looking at you, history.

• Dollar lands at SA Human Services

  ​Departing chief information officer of the Northern Territory’s Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR), Rowan Dollar, has been appointed CIO of South Australia’s Department of Human Services (DHS).

• New Telstra service can rapidly reroute around subsea cable outages

  Telstra says that a new ‘continuous connection’ service it is offering on its subsea cable network means that it can swiftly reroute traffic and mitigate the impact of outages in minutes.

• China's Huawei and ZTE targeted by bipartisan US bills

  A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced bills that would ban the sale of U.S. chips or other components to Huawei, ZTE or other Chinese telecommunications companies that violate U.S. sanctions or export control laws.

• Troy Hunt reveals details of mega-MEGA password dump

  Troy Hunt, the operator Have I Been Pwned, has revealed details of what he described as the largest single dump of emails and passwords he has encountered.

• Inside IBM Q System One: an archetype for the quantum computing frontier?

  Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, IBM Quantum displayed a replica of its first "commercial" quantum computer - Q System One. Following years of painstaking attention from a team of engineers and designers, the technology giant has created what it hopes will be an archetype for the next mode of computing.

• Techfugees comes to New Zealand

  Techfugees, a global body that aims to get the IT community helping refugees and displaced persons, has opened a chapter in New Zealand.