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• AGL to test blockchain-inspired energy trading

  Electricity retailer AGL has revealed details a plan to stage a desktop trial of peer-to-peer energy trading by households using distributed ledger technology inspired by Bitcoin’s blockchain.

• Flash back and forward

  It’s hard to believe that the all-flash data centre started over 20 years ago

• ACCC to let network operators pass on government’s NBN tax

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has done an about face on the government’s proposed Regional Broadband Scheme (RBS) charge, saying it will allow network operators to pass the cost of it on to consumers.

• How to conduct an IoT pen test

  Penetration testing was much like taking a battering ram to the door of the fortress. Keep pounding away and maybe find a secret backdoor to enter through. But what happens if pieces of the network are outside of the fortress? With the flurry of Internet of Things devices, is it harder to conduct a pen test with that many devices and end points?

• More FTTC in the works, NBN boss says

  NBN’s chief executive Bill Morrow says that the company will be “making some announcements soon” about wider use of fibre to the curb (FTTC) technology for the National Broadband Network rollout.

• The WannaCry scramble

  A widespread ransomware attack propagating as a worm was a legitimate cause of alarm.

• Here's how Windows 10's rapid release works, and looks

  Microsoft's grand plan for maintaining Windows 10 on a regular twice-a-year cadence sounds so simple. It's not. Here's help figuring it all out.

• 4 ways blockchain is the new business collaboration tool

  While blockchain may have cut its teeth on the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the distributed electronic ledger technology is quickly making inroads across a variety of industries.

• Tasmania eyes $67.5 million in IT upgrades

  In its 2017-18 budget handed down today, the Tasmanian government has earmarked more than $60 million for key digital transformation projects, including a program to upgrade IT systems relied on by emergency services in the state. Overall the government said it intended to spend $67.5 million in ICT upgrades.

• Government invests in data analytics

  Data analytics teams will help drive evidence-based programs and policy under the government’s Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA).