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• Vic govt prepares for upgrade to emergency services comms

  Motorola Solutions will upgrade Victoria’s Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR) network to support a range of new features including enhanced data services and GPS and location services.

• Reserve Bank promotes from within to fill CIO role

  The Reserve Bank of Australia has promoted Gayan Benedict to the role of chief information officer, replacing Sarv Girn.

• Cybersecurity starts with the weakest link – the user

  When the user is the weakest link, it requires a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle cyber security.

• DHS begins search for Sterrenberg’s replacement

  The Department of Human Services has officially begun the hunt for a new chief information officer to replace Gary Sterrenberg.

• Toshiba eyes cancelling chip unit sale if no China approval by May, reports say

  Japan's Toshiba Corp has decided it will cancel the planned US$18.6 billion sale of its memory chip unit if it does not get approval from China's anti-monopoly regulator by May, the Mainichi newspaper has reported.

• 10 tips to minimize IoT security vulnerabilities

  Online Trust Alliance spells out best practices for testing, purchasing, networking and updating IoT devices to make them and the enterprise more secure.

• How Munich Re built a data lake fit for all its employees

  The German reinsurance giant has built an internal portal giving all employees access to a data lake, with the hope that enterprising employees will create new business models

• Confused about mobile platforms? You’re not alone. Here’s clarity.

  Finally: Here are answers to the questions everyone suddenly has about mobile and IoT platforms.

• 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.