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• NAB enables Apple Pay

  National Australia Bank (NAB) has made Apple Pay available to personal and business customers with eligible NAB Visa debit or credit cards this morning.

• US eases some restrictions on Huawei to keep mobile networks operating

  The U.S. government has eased some restrictions imposed last week on China's Huawei, a sign of how the prohibitions on the telecommunications company may have far-reaching and unintended consequences.

• Contractor charged over alleged covert crypto-mining on government systems

  An IT contractor for a federal government agency faces multiple criminal charges after he allegedly reaped more than $9000 in profits from a covert crypto-mining operation.

• HCL left employee passwords, other sensitive data exposed online

  IT services giant HCL left employee passwords exposed online, as well as customer project details, all without any form of authentication.

• Queensland government dumps SPER IT contract after budget blowout

  The Queensland government has confirmed that it has terminated the contract of the ICT provider implementing a debt recovery solution for the State Penalties Enforcement Registry (SPER).

• Dell EMC unveils ‘AI Experience Zone’ in Sydney

  Sydney is the home to one of five Dell EMC AI Experience Zones which are intended to smooth the path to adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for businesses across the Asia Pacific.

• NSW revamps top cyber security role

  Tony Chapman will lead a new cyber security office within the New South Wales government’s Department of Customer Service.

• Google sees Gmail as key to its collaboration plans

  ‘We are not going to live in a world where everyone abandons email and moves all of their communication to chat,’ says Google’s Jacob Bank, director of product management at G Suite.

• Will the U.S. government draft cybersecurity professionals?

  A Congressional commission might soon recommend conscription of cybersecurity professionals to serve in both the military and civil service. Will the government force security pros to work for Uncle Sam?

• Optus expands commercial 5G services

  Optus says that by the end of the month customers in parts of the western Sydney suburbs of Bonnyrigg and Minchinbury, Niagara Park on the NSW Central Coast, Cook in the ACT and the Brisbane suburb of Kenmore will be able to order 5G services.

• Boeing says it has corrected simulator software of 737 MAX jets

  Boeing has made corrections to simulator software that mimics the flying experience of its 737 MAX jets, which were involved in two fatal crashes, and the company has provided additional information to device operators, according to a spokesman.

• Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist, source says

  Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.

• Arq Group sells wholesale reseller arm TPP for $24M

  Arq Group is to divest its TPP Wholesale reseller business in a bid to cut its debt following a period of plummeting profits.

• HPE to buy Cray, offer HPC as a service

  High-performance computing offerings from HPE plus Cray could enable things like AI, ML and digital twins for entire enterprise networks.

• Lessons learned from an S/4HANA public cloud migration by Spirit Airlines

  Budget US airline Spirit is in the process of moving from SAP's legacy ECC enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to S/4HANA public cloud but it has had to overcome some challenges on the way to what it says is a very different system for its users to get to grips with.