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• Cloud helping Australia Post make sense of your abominable handwriting

  Australia Post is using cloud-based optical character recognition (OCR) to help decipher the semi-legible addresses scrawled on parcels and letters.

• Cloud: ANZ shifts from ‘tactical projects’ to ‘an industrialised factory’

  ANZ now looks at cloud computing through the prism of “an industrialised factory” rather than “tactical projects,” the bank’s tech chief said today.

• Facebook oversight board won’t have mandate to change policy

  ​Facebook will allow a new outside oversight board to make final decisions on whether individual pieces of content can be displayed on the social media site, but the group won't be able to make policy changes, the company said on Tuesday.

• Top U.S. antitrust regulators admit to infighting on big tech probe

  ​The top U.S. antitrust regulators admitted at a congressional hearing on Tuesday that they had wasted time arguing over who would investigate which tech company, as they take on major probes of firms like Alphabet's Google for allegedly using their market power unfairly.

• Salesforce goes vertical with manufacturing and consumer goods 'clouds'

  Salesforce is pushing forward with packaging elements of its SaaS stack for industries, launching Consumer Goods Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud.

• Oracle woos Red Hat users with Autonomous Linux

  Oracle Autonomous Linux is patched, updated, and tuned automatically, but only in the Oracle Cloud

• Mozilla first reveals, then conceals, paid support plan for Firefox

  For more than a week, Mozilla touted a service called 'Mozilla Enterprise Client Support' for Firefox, then pulled the information off its website.

• Oracle goes all in on cloud automation

  Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week will spotlight the company going big on conversational user interfaces and digital assistants.

• Call me crazy, but Windows 11 could run on Linux

  With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor of the Linux kernel?

• 10 things you need to know about MU-MIMO Wi-Fi

  It’s a big breakthrough in wireless connectivity, but don’t let MU-MIMO’s limitations catch you off guard. Here are 11 ways to get up to speed on MU-MIMO Wi-Fi.

• Class action to target government over ‘robotdebt’ scheme

  Centrelink’s controversial ‘robodebt’ scheme will be the subject of a class action led by law firm Gordon Legal with the support of the Labor Party.

• Victoria uploads data for national facial recognition system

  Victoria will begin uploading driver’s licence photographs to the federal government National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution (NDLFRS).

• Telstra launches outbound voice calling on Google Nest devices, iPhone eSIM support

  Telstra says it is the first mobile carrier in the world to support voice-activated outbound calls on Google Nest and Home devices.

• NBN cuts entry-level broadband prices, nixes differential pricing for video

  NBN Co has detailed a price cut for entry-level broadband services that could make it more economical for retail service providers (RSPs) to offer ADSL-equivalent plans.

• Oracle to launch Melbourne cloud region

  Oracle will launch a Melbourne region for its cloud services as part of its push to add 20 new regions to its portfolio by the end of next year.