Facebook’s announcement of its intention to launch a new virtual currency has prompted a warning from a Charles Sturt University expert that cryptocurrencies have a number of features that make them attractive to criminals.

Chinese automotive component manufacturer Wanxiang has partnered with global privacy-preserving computing network PlatON to co-develop the data infrastructure for China’s largest smart city project in Hangzhou, slated for completion by 2025.

A new traineeship program by Microsoft Australia, which launched in NSW in late 2018, will expand to South Australia in September this year, designed to help build workforce capability in information technology and cloud computing, and increase IT traineeships in the State.

Sunday marked 30 years since the first packets were transmitted on the Internet in Australia. The network came to Australia because of a recognition by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee, now Universities Australia, that the country was suffering a serious brain drain as many researchers were leaving the country.

The OpenSSH project has implemented changes in its implementation of secure shell to guard against speculative execution and memory side-channel attacks — Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer and RAMBleed — developer Damien Miller says.

Fifty years in the software business is an achievement not to be sneezed at, but the APJ president of German integration software provider Software AG puts it down to very simple reasons.

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