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• Nginx sees significant microservices adoption in Australia

  Nginx — the US company behind the open source Nginx load balancer, web server and content caching software that powers most of the world’s highest traffic websites — has opened an office in Australia as part of its push into Asia Pacific.

• Adelaide firm helps CAVs find their way in urban canyons

  ​As anyone that has relied on a sat-nav to guide them through a built up, city environment will attest: GPS systems are highly prone to failure around tall buildings.

• Victorian govt seeks tougher rules for national face recognition system

  The Victorian government has indicated it is uneasy with the proposed governance arrangements for the national facial recognition service.

• Psykinetic launches 'world's fastest' eye-gaze keyboard, music-maker and app store

  Over the past few months, two colleagues at Sydney start-up Psykinetic have been engaged in battle.

• Buyers told to steer clear of ZTE’s Android devices

  ​Consumer activists and technology experts are advising consumers to hold off on buying Android handsets from China's ZTE.

• Stencil web components compiler beta due soon

  The open source compiler builds web components and progressive web apps (PWAs)

• A pirate-obsessed Nigerian hacking group is attacking the maritime industry

  A criminal splinter faction from a pirate symbology-obsessed Nigerian 'confraternity' has been running business email compromise scams for hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting the global maritime industry, according to security researchers who have been tracing the 'GOLD GALLEON' group and trying to derail its scams in real time.

• Inside Facebook's plan to limit the impact of GDPR protections

  If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller.

• Australian start-up Fleet Space aims to enable IoT globally

  Adelaide-based startup Fleet Space Technologies is a small company with big ambitions: “to design, build and launch the technology that will become the digital nervous system for our planet, drive a connected world and unlock the next industrial revolution.”

• Hundreds sign up to ride a bus with no driver in Melbourne

  Close to a thousand members of the public and students have signed up to take a ride in La Trobe University’s new autonomous shuttle bus, with trials commencing next week.

• Acquisition boosts Equinix’s Australian data centre portfolio to 15

  Data centre operator Equinix has completed its acquisition of Metronode, adding 10 data centres to its Australian portfolio.

• EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google's Android, AdSense is advancing

  Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system and its AdSense advertising service to thwart rivals are advancing, Europe's antitrust chief has revealed, amid concern about the lengthy proceedings.

• Qualcomm begins layoffs as part of cost cuts: Report

  Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut costs by US$1 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

• Regional Australia’s ‘first Tier III data centre’ opens

  The data centre is situated on a 29 hectare site which will become Toowoomba Technology Park.

• Microsoft holds up Windows 10 feature upgrade after finding BSOD bug

  The company delayed the update, which had been expected to arrive on either April 3 or April 10, for an unspecified period.