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• AGL makes $27.5 million offer for Southern Phone Company

  AGL has revealed it plans to acquire Southern Phone Company Limited (SPC) for $27.5 million.

• NZ government consults on algorithm usage

  New Zealand’s minister for statistics, James Shaw, has released a draft Algorithm Charter on government use of algorithms and initiated a public consultation on the issue.

• Government pushes mandatory 2FA to prevent number porting fraud

  The government has directed the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop new rules mandating the use of two-factor authentication to help prevent fraudulent mobile phone number porting.

• Microsoft has invested $1 billion in research lab OpenAI – here’s why

  Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI shows the Redmond giant has its sights set on being ready for the complex world of artificial general intelligence.

• Google unveils Pixel 4 phones with radar, more affordable laptop

  Google has unveiled new Pixel smartphones with higher quality cameras, a radar sensor to track hand gestures and faster virtual assistant, but the devices had no surprise features to set them apart from rivals and nix concerns about price.

• Sudo flaw discovered in "runas" restrictions

  A flaw in sudo was just announced yesterday. Users with the ability to run a command as another user may be able to get around this restriction and run commands as root.

• Beamforming explained: How it makes wireless communication faster

  Beamforming uses the science of electromagnetic interference to make Wi-Fi and 5G connections more precise.

• IBM and Vocus settle Census outage lawsuit

  IBM, Vocus and Vocus subsidiary Nextgen have settled a lawsuit relating to the high-profile failure of the Australian Census website in 2016.

• New German rules leave 5G telecoms door open to Huawei

  Germany has finalised rules for the build-out of 5G mobile networks that, in a snub to the United States, will not exclude China's Huawei Technologies.

• Telcos would have delivered fast broadband without NBN project, Telstra chair says

  Without the NBN, over the last decade Australia’s big telcos would have delivered 100Mbit broadband services for the majority of the nation, Telstra’s chair has argued.

• New security firm recruits former chief govt cyber advisor

  The former head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Alastair MacGibbon, has been appointed chief strategy officer of newly formed security firm CyberCX.

• Ransomware hits Pitney Bowes systems

  Mailing and ecommerce services company Pitney Bowes has confirmed some of its systems have been affected by a ransomware outbreak but says that there is no evidence customer data has been compromised.

• Facebook's Libra announces board as support shrinks further

  Backers of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project pledged to forge ahead after selecting a five-member board on Monday, shrugging off the latest member defection by online travel company Booking Holding earlier in the day.

• GandCrab cousin Sodinokibi made a fortune for ransomware pushers

  By tracking down bitcoin wallets, researchers estimate that the Sodinokibi creators pocketed at least $4.5 million.

• 10 hot micro-data-centre startups to watch

  Startups focused on micro data centers could fill a void created by growing demand to process IoT data closer to the network edge.