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• Data retention: Law enforcement accessed ‘metadata’ more than 296k times in FY18

  A government report reveals that law enforcement agencies sought access to information covered by Australia’s data retention regime on more than 296,000 occasions in FY18.

• Telstra takes step towards 5G core network

  Telstra has made an end-to-end 5G Standalone call, the telco has revealed.

• How digital bank Up built for speed and scale

  A legacy-free, mobile-first platform, building for scale, and a focus on openness helped digital bank Up reach its first hundred thousand customers eight months after its launch, according to co-founder Dominic Pym.

• Microsoft reveals US$1B investment in OpenAI

  ​Microsoft is investing US$1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI and that the two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence super-computing technologies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service.​

• Equifax's $700 million data breach settlement spurs criticism, calls for new rules

  Credit-reporting company Equifax will pay up to US$700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, in a landmark settlement that was nonetheless criticized by consumer advocates and some lawmakers who called for stricter regulation.

• Apple in advanced talks to buy Intel's smartphone-modem chip business: Report

  Apple is in advanced talks to buy chipmaker Intel's smartphone-modem chip business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

• IBM wins $95.5m Defence ERP contract

  IBM has won a $95.5 million contract to deliver the initial design for the Department of Defence’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) program.

• Slack tweaks desktop app to be faster, more efficient

  Slack is getting an overhaul designed to cut memory utilisation in half, speed up launch times and make connecting with colleagues faster.

• Toyota reveals new use for self-driving car tech at Tokyo Games

  Miniature remote controlled cars have proved to be a crowd pleaser at track and field throwing events, but for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Toyota Motor Corp is upping the game with a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers: pint-sized, self-driving A.I. robot cars.

• 5 tips to choose a serverless vendor

  The global serverless architecture market shows no signs of slowing down with multiple vendors offering their services in a fast-growing arena. AWS, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Rackspace, IBM, Oracle, and CA Technologies are just a few industry names investing heavily in the serverless space.

• Cyber security: LandMark White implements ACSC’s ‘Essential Eight’

  Embattled property valuation firm LandMark White has detailed a range of new security measures it has undertaken in the wake of two incidents involving the leak of customer data.

• Equifax nears deal to pay about US$700 million to settle US data breach probes

  ​Credit reporting company Equifax is close to a deal to pay around US$700 million to settle data breach probes with US regulators and states, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

• White House to host meeting with tech executives on Huawei ban: sources

  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on Monday to discuss the U.S. ban on sales to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources briefed on the meeting said on Friday.

• The memelords and bullshit-sniffers fighting hype in quantum computing

  The quantum computing community has done an excellent job of pitching the potential of its work.

• TypeScript 3.6 brings stricter checking to iterators and generators

  The latest TypeScript version, now available in beta, also introduces improvements for working with arrays and promises