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• 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

• Australian ‘encryption’ law could run afoul of GDPR, US CLOUD Act: Law Council

  The Law Council says that Australia’s ‘encryption’ legislation, which was intended to facilitate police interception of online communications channels, may end up leaving local law enforcement agencies unable to take advantage of a US scheme intended to make it easier to obtain access to data held by tech companies.

• NEC sues government over terminated biometrics project

  NEC Australia has launched lawsuit aiming to recover the costs it incurred during a terminated biometrics project with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

• UK's new PM must take 5G decision on Huawei urgently: committee

  The new prime minister must take a decision on whether to include China's Huawei in Britain's 5G telecoms network urgently as the ongoing debate is damaging international relations, a powerful committee of UK lawmakers said on Friday.

• NativeScript 6.0 speeds up builds, app updates

  Update to the JavaScript framework for building native iOS and Android apps also boasts smaller app binaries

• Worst DNS attacks and how to mitigate them

  DNS threats including DNS hijacking, tunneling, phishing, cache poisoning and DDoS attacks are all on the rise.

• Microsoft tells enterprises to be on Edge

  Microsoft has begun telling companies about a variety of corporate features that have been baked into the browser.

• Symantec warns of rise in targeted ransomware attacks

  Symantec has warned of significant growth in ransomware attacks targeting enterprises, as well as an increase in the number of groups believed to be behind the campaigns.

• Eclipse enterprise Java is due in September 2019

  Eclipse says Jakarta EE 8 will be fully compatible with Java EE 8, with better cloud and microservices support slated for future versions