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• Australian Digital Health Agency appoints CDO

  Steven Issa will join the Australian Digital Health Agency as the organisation’s inaugural chief digital officer.

• Spark 5G to give Emirates America's Cup team an edge

  New Zealand's Spark and the Emirates America's Cup team have opened an interactive 5G test lab in Auckland with Spark promising it will launch a live 5G network on 1 July 2020 that will give the team and edge in the America's Cup races to be held in July 2021.

• Italian certified email accounts attacked

  Unknown hackers gained access to thousands of Italian certified email accounts, including those of magistrates and security officials, in a major cyber attack earlier this month, a senior official said on Monday.

• Retail IoT is still coming into its own in 2019

  The use of IoT tech in the retail sector is growing fast, but where’s the killer app?

• What network pros need to know about IoT

  The impact of IoT on data centers will be staggering, experts says. Here are four essential things network professionals will need to know before they get started.

• AI, space technology added to CSIRO’s ‘future science’ program

  The CSIRO has added artificial intelligence and space technology to its Future Science Platforms (FSP) program, the research organisation announced today.

• More like su-don’t: Health Department seeks to clamp down on privileged accounts

  The Department of Health is seeking software to help it manage privileged user accounts as it strives to comply with one of the mandatory security requirements for Commonwealth entities.

• NBN Co CEO rejects calls for price cuts

  NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has rejected calls by telcos to cut the company’s wholesale prices.

• NAB to roll out support for Alipay

  NAB has become the first of Australia’s big four banks to support the Alibaba Group-backed Alipay mobile payment platform.

• Oracle veteran to take charge of Google Cloud

  Former Oracle product chief Thomas Kurian will replace Diane Greene as head of the cloud division at Google in the coming weeks, Greene announced in a blog post on Friday, after a tumultuous year for the business.

• Firefox adds in-browser notification of breached sites

  Mozilla added the alert system to its browser as a way or warning users who visit a site that's reported a data breach.

• BlackBerry to buy Cylance for $1.4B

  BlackBerry has raised its bets on artificial intelligence and cyber security with the $1.4 billion purchase of machine-learning specialists Cylance.

• IBM reinforces enterprise multi-cloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion

  IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.

• Encryption bill: Security researchers warn of unintended consequences

  University of Melbourne researchers Dr Vanessa Teague and Dr Chris Culnane have warned that a lack of clarity around a key protection in a government’s surveillance bill poses a serious threat to the security of online communications

• Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth wishes Red Hat and IBM a happy marriage

  Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at the second of this year's Openstack Summits was considerably less controversial than the last, where he explicitly compared the price between Red Hat and Ubuntu's services in Vancouver. However he still had plenty to say when Computerworld UK caught up with the hobby astronaut and entrepreneur on the show floor.