Victorian government pushes back on in-classroom surveillanceVictorian Education Minister James Merlino wants the few private schools using the surveillance tech to undertake rigorous privacy assessments and ensure students have explicit guardian or parental consent to participate.February 6, 2019 by Asha Barbaschow in Security
SoftBank sells off Nvidia and Flipkart stakes to bank $5.6 billion in exits for 2018The Japanese conglomerate claims to have had a 450 percent return on its $0.7 billion equity investment in Nvidia.February 6, 2019 by Chris Duckett in Mobility
LG G8 ThinQ to use Infineon 3D sensor for improved front cameraLG's upcoming G8 ThinQ smartphone will have a 3D sensor, made by German company Infineon Technologies, that will assist its front camera, the South Korean electronics maker says.February 6, 2019 by Cho Mu-Hyun in Mobility
Aussie Broadband kicks off network upgradeNBN retailer Aussie Broadband is buying international capacity on four subsea cable systems, as well as upgrading its core network with Cisco.February 6, 2019 by Corinne Reichert in Mobility
Accidental personal info disclosure hit Australians 260,000 times last quarter85 cases of human error resulted in 269,621 instances of Australians having their personal information disclosed accidentally.February 6, 2019 by Asha Barbaschow in Security
Play VideoChorus trials 10Gbps broadbandChorus gigabit broadband customers in Auckland and Wellington can apply to be among the first to trial a new 10Gbps-speed service.February 6, 2019 in Mobility
New Relic acquires SignifAI to bring AI to IT operationsSignifAI's open data platform integrates with popular DevOps tools to help teams understand their operational data, such as alerts and change events, regardless of the source.February 6, 2019 by Stephanie Condon in AI & Robotics
Apple moves further down the road of removing Do Not Track from SafariThe disrespected privacy setting can be used for fingerprinting, so Apple tosses it.February 6, 2019 by Chris Duckett in Security
IBM's latest cloud deal shows how it's winning business from competitorsSaaS provider Smart Energy Water has signed a multi-million dollar, five-year deal with IBM after beginning its cloud journey elsewhereFebruary 6, 2019 by Stephanie Condon in Cloud
Play VideoSingapore banks given more time to adopt e-payment protection guidelinesOriginally scheduled to come into effect at the end of January, e-payment user protection guidelines will now be rolled out on June 30, after industry regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore agrees to give local banks more time to implement the necessary support systems.February 6, 2019 in Finance
Firefox to get a 'site isolation' feature, similar to ChromeMozilla announces Project Fission, a project to add true multi-process support to Firefox.February 6, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Brazil's largest bank rolls out AI-enabled cameras in branchesThe initiative at Itaú Unibanco aims to improve security and customer experience but raises concerns over customer privacy.February 6, 2019 by Angelica Mari in AI & Robotics
Google explores AI's mysterious polytopeResearchers at Google Brain and DeepMind go in quest of better "representations" of the world by AI, through exploration of the polytope, a Euclidean geometric form that represents the possible solutions to a game of strategy.February 6, 2019 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics
New MacOS zero-day allows theft of user passwordsKeySteal exploit can steal user passwords from the macOS Keychain.February 6, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Google eliminates more spam from Gmail with TensorFlowWith the open-source machine learning framework, Google can quickly modify its ML models to find the hardest-to-detect spam messages.February 6, 2019 by Stephanie Condon in Security
Google Cloud, Golden State Warriors ink analytics, cloud partnership at new arenaThe Warriors intend to use Google Cloud's services to automate data workflows, create machine learning models, visualize data and share analytics with coaches, staff and players.February 6, 2019 by Larry Dignan in Cloud
Microsoft Build 2019: It's back in Seattle from May 6 to 8Registration for this year's Microsoft Build developers conference opens February 27. And Build, again, is going head-to-head with Google's I/O developer confab.February 6, 2019 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10
Apple starts selling refurbished iPhone X handsets, but they're not cheapApple has begun selling refurbished iPhone X handsets, but they're not as much of a bargain as you’d expect last year's technology to be.February 6, 2019 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in iPhone