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• New CIO at Victoria’s Triple Zero service

  Graeme Dunn will lead the IT function at Victoria’s Triple Zero authority.

• Apple CEO calls on Bloomberg to retract spy chip story

  Apple chief executive Tim Cook has said that Bloomberg should retract a story that claimed Apple's internal computer systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents.

• SWIFT and Microsoft partner for cloud payments

  Global payments network SWIFT has partnered with Microsoft for a proof of concept project that uses the technology company’s Azure cloud.

• Telstra pledges to improve network redundancy following issues connecting Triple Zero calls

  Telstra has committed to improving the redundancy and diversity of its network, developing new communication protocols to strengthen the emergency call service.

• Gartner: IT spending to hit US$3.8 trillion; enterprise software, IT services outlays lead way

  Enterprise software spending is forecast to experience the highest growth with an 8.3 percent increase in 2019. Communications services like MPLS and other WAN services will hit 1.4 trillion in 2018.

• Why Microsoft and Google love progressive web apps

  Microsoft wants everything to run on Windows. Google wants everything to run on the web. (And what does Apple want?)

• MongoDB’s new license won’t solve its China problem

  We need to find ways to ensure commercial open source can thrive, without worrying about the big cloud providers sucking out all value without contributing back

• Critics warn Microsoft it needs to fix broken update process

  Microsoft's decision this month to stop distribution of the fall feature upgrade to Windows 10 is only the latest sign of a broken update process. Upset users want that fixed.

• Heathrow turns to Power BI to predict passenger volumes ahead of time

  Heathrow Airport is using a range of data and analytics tools from Microsoft and machine learning models to better predict passenger flows through its terminals to improve operations and make passenger journeys smoother.

• Twilio announces new products, Autopilot and Pay

  At the Twilio SIGNAL conference for customers and developers currently taking place in San Fransisco, the company announced the launch of two new products, Autopilot and Pay.

• Encryption bill: What’s a ‘systemic weakness’? It depends, the government says

  A key protection in a government bill that is designed to increase the ability of police to access online communications is a prohibition on forcing a company to build a “systemic” security vulnerability into its products or services. However, exactly what that provision will mean in practice remains unclear.

• VR raises empathy more than other mediums, Stanford study finds

  ​Virtual reality’s power to put people in the shoes of another has been used to great effect ever since the technology became readily available and affordable.

• UK govt launches code of practice for connected devices

  ​The UK government has launched a voluntary code of practice for internet connected device makers, and urged industry to improve the security of their consumer IoT products.

• PostgreSQL 11 taps LLVM and parallelization for speed boost

  The powerful open source database now offers more features for data sharing, JIT-accelerated queries, and transactions inside stored procedures

• Atlassian revamps Jira Software, adds roadmaps tool

  The redesign follows a multi-year migration of the popular issue-tracking app to the AWS cloud and the acquisition last year of Trello.