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• Queensland’s Office State Revenue chooses Nina for virtual assistant ‘Sam’

  Queensland Treasury’s Office State Revenue (OSR) has rolled out a virtual assistant to answer online enquiries from the public.

• Healthy future for ‘augmented intelligence’

  According to Murray Brozinsky, the future of patient-centred healthcare is not substituting artificial intelligence for people but “augmented intelligence”: Using AI technologies to enhance the work of healthcare professionals.

• NSW bans drones from being flown above prisons

  The New South Wales parliament has passed new laws banning drones from being flown above the state’s prisons.

• Microsoft takes second swing at Windows 10 1809, re-issues troubled upgrade

  The 'October' update rollout was put on hold for 38 days after a file-deletion bug caused problems.

• Cisco marries wireless, wired worlds with new Catalyst 9000 switches

  Cisco is making it possible to run, manage, automate and secure wired and wireless networks all on top of a single operating system.

• Kaspersky Lab invests millions, officially launches transparency initiative

  Kaspersky Lab has started to officially process data in Switzerland alongside opening its first Transparency Centre in Zurich.

• Cylance researchers discover powerful new nation-state threat

  A new APT, dubbed White Company, is flexing its muscle on the world stage, and it has security researchers worried.

• How to successfully embark on a DevOps journey

  Many Australian and New Zealand companies have a keen interest in DevOps - some have very advanced DevOps cultures, while others are just beginning to see how it can be beneficial to their work.

• The Linux desktop: With great success comes great failure

  Linux is both the most popular operating system and a niche end-user OS. How can that be? Follow along, my friends, and I’ll tell you.

• Is your network ready to take advantage of 5G?

  Remember the launch of 3G and the ‘mobile internet’ hype? 5G is being loaded with similarly grandiose expectations. The Financial Times, not known for getting easily excited, has predicted it will be a “game changer for humanity”.

• Data retention: Telco group says councils, Australia Post among organisations accessing ‘metadata’

  Telecommunications industry group Communications Alliance has revealed details of dozens of state and federal departments and agencies that it claims are accessing so-called communications ‘metadata’.

• NextDC strikes INDIGO cable deal with Superloop

  Connection to the INDIGO subsea cable system will be offered from NextDC’s P1 and P2 data centres in Perth as well as its Sydney S1 and S2 facilities.

• ACCC figures reveal telcos buying more NBN capacity

  Figures released today by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reveal that the average NBN bandwidth per household increased in the three months to 30 September — from 1.66 megabits per second at the end of June, to 1.71Mbps.

• Fear and hacking on the bug bounty trail

  It could be a scene from almost any city start-up office on a Friday afternoon, except the workers here have been flown in from five continents, and will eat tonight at Sydney’s most expensive restaurants before wandering back to their beds at the five star Westin hotel over the road.

• HTC Vive unveils standalone VR headset, collaboration app for the enterprise

  The company's Vive Focus head-mounted display is now available in the U.S.; its Vive Sync app will arrive after beta testing gets under way in December.