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• 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.

• Telstra calls for government help to combat 5G fears

  The government should step in and help counter misconceptions about the safety of 5G, Telstra says.

• Amazon's war on Microsoft's $10B Pentagon cloud deal heats up

  Amazon.com is contesting the Pentagon's award of an up to US$10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft.

• Uptake of NBN Co’s slowest speed tier grows for the first time in a year

  New figures released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissioner (ACCC) have revealed that services on NBN Co’s slowest wholesale speed tier — which offers downloads of up to 12 megabits per second and 1Mbps uploads — have increased for the first time since mid-2018.

• Rigetti, CBA test quantum computing’s financial potential

  Researchers from Rigetti Computing and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia say they have taken an important step towards the use of quantum computing in the financial services sector.

• Huawei, ZTE 'cannot be trusted' and pose security threat: U.S. attorney general

  Huawei and ZTE "cannot be trusted," U.S. Attorney General William Barr said, labeling the Chinese firms a security threat as he backed a proposal to bar U.S. rural wireless carriers from tapping an US$8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment or services from them.

• Activist stakeholder pushes for HP merger with Xerox

  Activist investor Carl Icahn has bought a US$1.2 billion stake in HP and is pushing for the personal computer maker's merger with Xerox.

• Web payment card skimmers add anti-forensics capabilities

  The newly discovered Pipka script can delete itself from a website after execution, making it very difficult to detect.

• Vic Health & Human Services to ditch unsupported finance system for Oracle’s cloud

  Victoria’s Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is gearing up for a mega-project to shift its finance system to the cloud.