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• Bipartisan opposition to government’s facial recognition bill

  The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has called for the redrafting of a government bill designed to establish a national facial recognition system.

• Aussie Broadband prepares for ASX listing

  Telecommunications provider Aussie Broadband has appointed Brian Maher as its new CFO as the company prepares to go public next year.

• Fuji Xerox to buy CSG for $141M

  ​Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific has entered into an agreement to acquire publicly listed print and business technology solutions provider CSG for A$140.8 million.

• IBM questions Google's quantum computing 'supremacy' claims

  Google claims to have achieved a breakthrough in computing research by using a quantum computer to solve in minutes a complex problem that would take today's most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.

• Google claims quantum supremacy over supercomputers

  Google says its new quantum computer takes less than three-and-a-half minutes to solve a problem that would take a supercomputer about 10,000 years.

• Agile starts with leadership, not a textbook

  Embracing agile ways of working at SiteMinder, which for years had established itself as a global market leader through technical innovation and pace-to-market, has represented a fundamental shift in how we work.

• Move aside, RDBMS, NoSQL owns the future

  Relational databases may keep ‘old stack’ workloads, but research suggests NoSQL databases will dominate ‘new stack’ spending

• Telstra strikes 5G edge deal with Cradlepoint

  Telstra will work with US company Cradlepoint to develop a ‘5G for Business’ offering that integrates with a 5G cellular modem and an edge router.

• Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020

  Gartner: Hyperautomation, AI-based security, distributed cloud computing and intelligent edge systems will be all the rage

• Slack adds app home screen, better app discoverability

  The collaboration software vendor is hoping to make it easier for developers to build apps for its platform, and help users find those apps once they're released.

• Cisco issues critical security warning for IOS XE REST API container

  This Cisco IOS XE REST API vulnerability could lead to attackers obtaining the token-id of an authenticated user.

• HTC launches a cheaper blockchain phone

  HTC is now selling the Exodus 1s, a blockchain-enabled smartphone that can natively store Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and costs less than half the price of its predecessor.

• Aruba rounds out edge-to-cloud strategy

  HPE Aruba's AOS-CX 10.4 software and stackable CX 6300 and modular CX 6400 Series switches offer intelligence, automation, security across networks.

• NBN Co CEO defends enterprise market push

  NBN Co’s chief executive has rejected criticism of the company’s efforts to increase its revenue from the business segment, with the network operator defending its direct engagement with major enterprises over the rollout of fibre services.

• Google Bazel builds and tests Bazel 1.0

  Open source build tool brings fast incremental builds to multiple languages, multiple platforms, and large code bases