ICT professional association Australian Computer Society, has acquired Brisbane-based platform solutions provider River City Labs Group including the operations of the RCL accelerator and Startup Catalyst, with a commitment to invest $7.5 million in ramping up River City’s support for tech entrepreneurs.

A new international submarine cable contract has been agreed between Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council and telecoms network operations company RTI-C Connectivity, with claims the cable will deliver Australia’s fastest telecommunications connection to Asia and second fastest to the United States.

A fully-automated program to analyse medical images with the aim of detecting breast tumours is being developed by researchers from the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute for Machine Learning.

The personal and financial details of 380,000 customers who made bookings with British Airways on its website ba.com between 21 August and 5 September have been stolen, the airline says.

The US Department of Justice has filed a criminal complaint against a North Korean cracker named Park Jin Hyok for allegedly being behind a 2104 hack of Sony Pictures and the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.

Over three days, Cisco has released 32 security advisories with three of them rated critical, one being a flaw in the Apache Struts Web framework which is used in several Cisco products.

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is in extremely poor health and unless he is released from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, his condition may deteriorate to the point where his life is threatened, say his legal team.

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