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• Super fund Rest recruits UBank CIO

  UBank’s chief information officer Jeremy Hubbard is joining superannuation fund Rest to lead a team covering strategy and planning, IT management, innovation, and data governance.

• Why Amadeus moved its core Master Pricer application to Google Cloud

  Spanish travel giant Amadeus has moved its core Master Pricer application to the Google Cloud Platform, in the first step of an ambitious cloud migration strategy.

• Six months in, how is Qualtrics fitting in at SAP?

  After being acquired for US$8 billion, Qualtrics is now part of SAP, but how do their platforms align and what does the ideal customer of both look like?

• Five Eyes’ cyber guys discuss global threats in Scotland

  Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have spoken in public together for the first time at a conference in Scotland.

• It’s time for Australian telco providers to invest in the user experience: Accenture

  The Australian telco market has been kept on its toes in recent years in a bid to retain customers.

• The new PCI Software Security Framework may be just the start

  Nothing bums out a room like starting to talk about compliance. Go ahead, try it at your next meet up and see how many people turn to their phones or the door.

• IoT roundup: VMware, Nokia beef up their IoT offerings

  Everyone wants in on the ground floor of the internet of things, and companies including Nokia, VMware and Silicon Labs are sharpening their offerings in anticipation of further growth.

• Cisco: DNSpionage attack adds new tools, morphs tactics

  The group behind the Domain Name System attacks known as DNSpionage have upped their dark actions with new tools and malware to focus their attacks and better hide their activities.

• No, drone delivery still isn’t ready for prime time

  Despite incremental progress and limited regulatory approval in the U.S. and Australia, drone delivery still isn’t a viable option in the vast majority of use cases.

• Apple edges closer to cursory code review for all Mac apps

  In a message to developers, the company said it will soon require all macOS apps to pass at least a cursory review before they can be downloaded and run by users.

• Cairns Regional Council rolls out robo parking cop

  ​Cairns Regional Council has bought an automated parking enforcement system which combines computer vision and GPS to enforce restrictions.

• Tim Cook on Apple’s values, regulation, excessive phone use, health, and more

  In an interview at the Time 100 Summit, Apple’s CEO spoke broadly about a wide range of issues

• ACSC finds large number of unprotected network services in Australia

  The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has found a large number of unprotected network, database and storage services hosted on Australian Internet Protocol (IP) address ranges.

• Huawei first-quarter revenue grows 39 per cent to US$27 billion

  ​Huawei Technologies said on Monday its first-quarter revenue jumped 39 percent to 179.7 billion yuan (US$26.81 billion), in the Chinese technology firm's first-ever quarterly results.

• Melbourne set to host Labor’s AI centre

  Melbourne has been selected as the host of a national AI lab, pledged by Labor if it wins the upcoming federal election.