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• Men charged after police investigate alleged attacks on phone systems

  Two Victorian men have been charged following an investigation into what police claim were denial of service attacks against “Australian government infrastructure”.

• The chatbot with its own office and personal (human) assistant

  ​Chatbots provide a way for customers to transact with companies from wherever they are at any hour of the day.

• Reserve Bank calls for New Payments Platform access to be broadened

  The Reserve Bank of Australia has called for access to the New Payments Platform to be broadened a range of payments services providers.

• SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future

  The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.

• Google policy head retools team for global lobbying push

  Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling how its policy office operates, with increased emphasis on having policy staffers and top company executives alike building relationships with governments, people familiar with the matter said this week.

• Huawei files to trademark mobile OS around the world after U.S. ban

  China's Huawei has applied to trademark its "Hongmeng" operating system (OS) in at least nine countries and Europe, data from a UN body shows, in a sign it may be deploying a back-up plan in key markets as US sanctions threaten its business model.

• Some companies fall short on data breach obligations

  Some Australian companies have failed to notify affected individuals of data breaches according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

• Next step in Assange extradition case due in UK court on Friday

  WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange is due before a London court on Friday, facing the next stage of a U.S. attempt to try him on spying charges after Britain’s interior minister said he had validated the American extradition request.

• Aruba co-founder talks 'creating experiences' at the edge with IoT and Wi-Fi

  Keerti Melkote, Aruba president and co-founder discusses the power of the edge when creating modern digital experiences.

• Rowhammer variant RAMBleed allows attackers to steal secrets from RAM

  Unlike Rowhammer, which only allows for data corruption, the newly discovered RAMBleed vulnerability provides a way to grab data such as encryption keys from memory.

• Microsoft is better at documenting patch problems, but issues abound

  For years we’ve been flailing around in the dark after bad patches wreaked havoc on Windows PCs. There's still a lot of unexplained grunge.

• Auditor sees risks in government management of NBN loan

  The Australian National Audit Office has expressed concerns over the handling of a $19.5 billion government loan to NBN Co, with the communications department unable to provide evidence of a suitable governance framework to oversee the company’s compliance with the lending arrangements.

• RAC’s driverless Intellibus hits the road in regional WA

  The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) is trialling it’s driverless electric shuttle bus in the seaside town of Busselton.

• H&R Block acquires NAB-backed Wave Financial in $583m deal

  US accounting firm H&R Block will acquire fintech Wave Financial in an A$583 million all-cash deal, the company announced yesterday.

• Veteran reskilling startup helping big firms quit 'fire and rehire' cycles

  ​A firm which helps military veterans find technology and cyber security roles is now working with large companies to help them reskill existing workforces and stop cycles of ‘fire and rehire’.