| Hi John, Australia should not follow Singapore and adopt a centralised model for its coronavirus contact-tracing app, cryptographer Vanessa Teague says, pointing out that with this model if someone tests positive, their list of contacts is given to the authorities.
Facebook has announced an investment of US$5.7 billion (A$9.3 billion) in Jio Platforms, a company that owns India's biggest mobile provider with nearly 388 million subscribers. The social media giant has thus become the biggest minority shareholder in the company.
San Francisco-based security outfit ZecOps claims to have found a pair of remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in the wild targeting the Mail program on iPhones, adding that these have been present since at least iOS 6, which was released in September 2012.
The company that organises the Black Hat hackers conference in the US has reached a legal settlement with a company known as Crown Sterling over a sponsored talk that was presented at the 2019 conference and then taken down from the conference website after several attendees questioned its veracity.
How did Aussie IT departments fare during the COVID-19 crisis? It depends who you ask. Despite many well-publicised glitches, as COVID-19 hit, Australian business continuity plans largely worked well, according to a survey of 197 local organisations.
Microsoft 365 was launched three years ago as a business product combining Windows 10 Enterprise, Office 365 Business Premium and other software, but it has now completely replaced the Office 365 brand.
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