Google's featured snippets on search results, which appear right at the top, often provide shockingly incorrect information, leading one academic to characterise them as being worse than fake news.

Meanwhile, Google has confirmed that a Pixel 2 and XL model are in the pipeline for a September/October release and will be the first to run Android 8 – Oreo.

Member concerns over the performance of the board of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), the country’s peak body for information and cyber security professionals, have pressured AISA to call an extraordinary general meeting.

An Australian start-up that is currently testing what it says is the biggest dry run of an electronic voting system is confident that it can gradually make headway into getting its system taken up in the country.

A survey of private cloud deployments has led the open source cloud provider Nextcloud to issue a security scanner in order that users can find out the state of their security and update as needed.

Sales of tablet devices continued to rebound in the second half of 2016 with 1.64 million units sold, according to the Telsyte Australian Tablet Market Study 2017.

Unisys is collaborating with the CSIRO in the development of an advanced data analytics solution for automated security risk assessment of travellers and cargo at air, land and sea borders.

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