When the Federal Government issued a discussion paper in September last year indicating that it wanted to use the same as the basis for drafting a new cyber security strategy for 2020, it was quite clear that what was being looked at was a bigger role for the Australian Signals Directorate. However, giving ASD a domestic role is an extremely slippery slope.

More people are shifting from faster to slower NBN connections, with those on 12Mbps plans increasing to 17.6% of all NBN wholesale services at the end of the December quarter, the competition watchdog reports. The figure at the end of the previous quarter was 16.2%.

Online job advertisements portal SEEK has seen a fall in ad volume of 6.5% year-on-year in January, and 6.4% year-on-year for December 2019.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was offered a deal by the US in 2017, with California Republican Dana Rohrabacher telling him that President Donald Trump would pardon him if he denied any material he had received from a 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee did not come from the Russians.

Western Australia-based IT services provider Empired has suffered a decline in both revenue and profits for the first-half FY20 due to the loss of a contract in its home state.

There are some software programs that become so well-known that their names enter the English language as verbs. One of the best known is Adobe Photoshop, the graphics and video editing application that turns 30 this year.

The New South Wales Government claims the Sydney Startup Hub has entrenched NSW’s reputation as the nation’s “leader in innovation” with more than $280 million in investment generated and over 1000 jobs created in its first two years.

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