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• AirTrunk reveals new Sydney data centre

  Data centre operator AirTrunk has announced plans for its third Australian data centre to be located in the north of Sydney.

• ACMA issues first directions for ISPs to block online gambling sites

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued its first directions to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block their subscribers from accessing unauthorised offshore sites.

• Government pushes for IoT manufacturers to ditch dodgy password practices

  The government has released a draft voluntary code of practice that is intended to help address the parlous state of security among Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

• Intel puts "millions of engineering hours" into oneAPI

  Intel has launched the oneAPI "industry initiative" to deliver a unified and open programming experience to developers on any architecture.

• Sorry, Apple: For the education market, Chromebook is the clear winner

  Apple started this fight with some old-school smack talk, but it only highlighted how it’s clinging to the old PC-centric model.

• 5 ways your cloud migration may fail—and 5 ways to succeed

  Cloud migrations should benefit the application, IT, and the business. Here's how to avoid the pitfalls and reap the rewards

• White-box switches yield initial savings but pose challenges

  White-box switches outfitted with independent network operating systems solutions have seen only limited adoption in leading enterprise IT shops.

• 5 disruptive storage technologies for 2020

  Leading-edge technologies, including intent-based storage management, promise to change the way IT organisations store, manage and use data.

• Australia risks being ‘steamrolled on AI,’ Labor’s O’Neil says

  Australia risks missing out on the benefits of the explosion in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector due to a lackadaisical attitude by the federal government, according to shadow innovation minister Clare O’Neil.

• Vodafone wants NBN connections to match ‘sticker’ speeds

  Vodafone has backed an idea floated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that would see NBN Co introducing a speed ‘buffer’ so that a household’s broadband connection more closely matches its wholesale speed tier.

• Twitter tightens bans on political ads and causes ahead of 2020 U.S. election

  Twitter on Friday said its political advertising ban will include references to political candidates or legislation, and it will not allow ads that advocate for a certain outcome on social and political causes.

• Microsoft to probe work of Israeli facial recognition startup it funded

  Microsoft has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the company said on Friday.

• IoT in 2020: The awkward teenage years

  The internet of things will see more growth in 2020, along with more growing pains - security, lack of complete solutions

• What is the .NET Framework? Microsoft’s answer to Java

  Once limited to Windows, .NET also now allows developers to easily build apps for Linux, MacOS, and Android

• NBN migrations boost Optus revenue, but 1H profit drops

  Optus saw an increase in customers and higher NBN migration payments which helped the telco's revenue grow 1.8 per cent, to $4.4 billion for the half year ended 30 September but that was not enough to help Optus' profit.