With one in two Aussies now living in Telstra's 5G coverage footprint, Telstra says this progress shows it is on track to "expand coverage to 75% of the population by the middle of the year" as it adds thousands of 5G devices to its network every week.



The lack of timing and detail in Microsoft's announcement about its source code being accessed by the attackers who used SolarWinds' Orion network management software in a supply chain attack can only mean that this is bad news, the Israel-based source code control, detection, and response solution start-up Cycode, claims.

ANALYSIS In announcing the departure of Bob Swan as chief executive, Intel has made sure to mention that the announcement has nothing to do with either its financial performance in 2020 or its failure to introduce 7nm CPUs on time.

China has introduced a new by-law that will allow its companies to sue for damages in the event that their financial interests are affected by actions taken by third-party, non-American companies abroad.

Fujitsu has announced the development of an AI based technology that can recognise and analyse complex human movements.

Australian biggest customer-owned bank, Heritage Bank, has partnered with global information services company Experian to set up a loans origination platform that will reduce the loan processing time by up to 80%.

Australian-listed Israeli company Weebit Nano has appointed non-volatile memory (NVM) veteran Ishai Naveh as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Security intelligence company LogRhythm has acquired cloud-based analytics platform and threat detection provider MistNet.

Attackers who claim they are responsible for the supply chain attack on the Texas firm SolarWinds, say they have data from their exploits which they wish to sell.

Oracle has released its low-code Apex Application Development service and announced the availability of Oracle Database 21c on Oracle Cloud.

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Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Afternoon Newsletter Editor, iTWire

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