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• NBN Co prepares to roll out more changes to wholesale pricing

  NBN Co has launched an industry consultation on wholesale pricing, with the network operator indicating it wants to encourage the uptake of higher speed plans as well as make NBN services more attractive to lower-income households.

• Rachel Noble revealed as new Australian Cyber Security Centre head

  Rachel Noble will lead the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the head of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Mike Burgess, has announced.

• ASX upgrades co-lo data centre to support power-hungry FPGAs

  The Australian Securities Exchange has officially launched new high-density pods at its Tier III co-location data centre.

• Kerlink & Tata could bring more LoRaWAN to Kiwis

  New Zealand could be getting another LoRaWAN wide area network for IoT following announcement by French LoRaWAN gear maker Kerlink and Indian tech giant Tata of plans to promote and deploy LoRaWAN IoT networks globally.

• What the latest iOS passcode hack means for you

  Cellebrite, an Israeli-based forensics company, claims it has advanced its hacking technology to include Apple's iOS 12.3 and 'high-end Android' devices.

• How Trustpilot pivoted to infrastructure-as-code and serverless first

  Massive Danish consumer website Trustpilot contains roughly 60 million user generated reviews spanning 230,000 companies - and attracts more than 3 billion reviews read in just a single month.

• JLL creates ‘smart office’ AI voice assistant

  The real estate firm partnered with Google to compete with a range of conversational AI assistants entering the workplace, from Alexa to Cortana.

• With Constellation, DataStax wants to make Apache Cassandra 'push button' easy

  DataStax has made its name in helping enterprise customers get to grips with the highly scalable NoSQL Apache Cassandra open source database. Now it's looking to drastically simplify the technology and take the next big step in its growth curve following the release of the new cloud platform Constellation.

• Airbus deploys Microsoft’s HoloLens, pushes mixed reality plans further

  Airbus, which competes with Boeing and Lockheed Martin, also plans to sell its own mixed reality apps to others in the aviation industry.

• CASA to launch drone safety API

  The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is planning to retire its ‘Can I Fly There?’ drone safety app.

• Facebook reveals Libra cryptocurrency, aims to launch it in 2020

  ​Facebook has revealed plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra, the latest development in its effort to expand beyond social networking and move into e-commerce and global payments.

• What is PKI? And how it secures just about everything online

  Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a catch-all term for everything used to establish and manage public key encryption, one of the most common forms of internet encryption. It is baked into every web browser in use today to secure traffic across the public internet, but organizations can also deploy it to secure their internal communications.

• Survey reveals most-used CSS features and tools

  State of CSS 2019 report details which CSS features and tools developers use, which they don’t use, and which they prefer

• South Australia to roll out centralised security analytics capability

  The South Australian government will invest in an “across government automated analytics and monitoring capability,” budget documents reveal.

• NSW government launches $100m ‘digital restart’ fund

  New South Wales will establish a ‘Digital Restart Fund’ in 2019-20 with seed funding of $100 million over the next two years to fund whole-of-government digital transformation.