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• Queensland Health continues robot hospital helper roll-out

  Queensland Health is continuing its experimentation with robot assistants, rolling out additional TESA bots to hospitals across the state next month.

• Oracle accused of ‘stark patterns’ of discrimination

  Oracle has been accused of “stark patterns of discrimination” in relation to the salaries paid to female, African American and Asian employees at its Redwood Shores HQ.

• Cisco releases 20 security updates impacting SD-WAN, Webex and more

  Cisco has released 20 updates including one critical update for its SD-WAN solution buffer overflow.

• CERT NZ sets out top 10 security measures

  CERT NZ has published a list of 10 critical controls that it says, if implemented by organisations, would prevent, or better contain, the majority of attacks seen in the past year.

• Want to lead the Australian government’s hackers? Now’s your chance

  The Australian Signals Directorate is seeking to recruit a senior executive to lead the branch of the agency dedicated to offensive cyber operations.

• AWS gets government go-ahead to handle classified data

  ​Amazon Web Services has been certified to store and process federal government data classified as Protected, across 42 of its services.

• GitHub’s Atom editor adds commit previews

  Atom 1.34 introduces the ability to preview staged changes, and the 1.35 beta adds a view into individual commits

• Why organisations need a scale-out infrastructure solution in the age of data regulation

  Data is the most strategic asset of any organisation. It informs business decisions and drives revenue across industries. However, traditional methods of managing data are showing their age, and data-driven enterprises are in need of a better solution now more than ever.

• What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained

  Learn how Google’s Istio open source project conquers the complexities of managing the networks used to connect microservices

• More than 700 Telstra workers face job losses

  Telstra is about to let 752 workers go around the country as it continues with its plans to slash 8,000 jobs by 2022.

• Penten wants to use AI to build better cyber tripwires

  Australian security firm Penten is backing research into the use of artificial intelligence to build more convincing “cyber tripwires,” according to chief executive Matthew Wilson.

• ACCC finds few eligible households taking up NBN compensation offer

  Two-thirds of eligible NBN-connected households are yet to avail themselves of refunds that could be worth hundreds of dollars, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

• Developers at the heart of innovation

  In today’s technology driven and rapidly changing world, developers are at the heart of organisations’ future innovation endeavours. We’ve been hearing it for a while, but now more than ever the phrase ‘every company is a software company’ rings true.

• Telcos, tech industry call for major changes to encryption legislation

  Industry groups representing the telco sector and major tech businesses have called for major changes to controversial surveillance legislation.

• NSW loses cyber security chief to Human Services

  New South Wales’ government chief information security officer (GCISO) Dr Maria Milosavljevic has left her role for a new position at the Commonwealth’s Department of Human Services.