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• Government says legislation tackling terror streaming still on agenda

  The government says that a meeting held today with social media giants failed to persuade it that a legislative response to the live-streaming on Facebook of the Christchurch terrorist attack is unnecessary.

• Human Services to expand chatbot ranks with ‘PIPA’

  The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new chatbot that it says will offer tailored support when individuals seek to access online government services.

• Woodside strikes space deal

  Woodside has signed a ‘statement of strategic intent and cooperation’ with the Australian Space Agency, the resources company said today.

• Coles looks to automated fulfilment to boost online margins

  Coles will roll out an online ordering and delivery platform from UK company Ocado.

• Microsoft Australia lands largest 365 Advanced A5 project with RMIT

  ​Microsoft has secured its largest 365 Advanced A5 deployment in Australia to date in a project with RMIT University.

• Morrison flags new laws to stop social media platforms being 'weaponised'

  Scott Morrison is foreshadowing tough new criminal laws to crack down on social media companies which fail to quickly remove footage like that streamed by the gunman in the New Zealand massacre.

• Hackers attacked 1m+ Asus users through malicious update

  Hackers were able to deliver malware to the more one million-plus Asus computer owners last year by hijacking the company's software update system, security researchers said on Monday.

• Apple unveils streaming service, credit card

  Apple has attempted to reintroduce itself as an entertainment and financial services company that also makes iPhones as it launched a streaming television service, a credit card and an online gaming arcade.

• Microsoft unveils speedy type checker for Python

  Pyright aims to be a faster type checker for Python than existing projects, and doesn't need Python itself

• Cisco Webex gets AI updates to simplify meetings

  Cisco’s new head of collaboration, Amy Chang, touts plans to streamline the Webex video and voice conference experience for users.

• What we learned at Nvidia's GTC conference 2019

  As to be expected, Nvidia made a series product announcements at its annual GPU technology conference (GTC) in San Jose this week, with the focus continuing to be on giving customers and developers the hardware and services they need to leverage artificial intelligence.

• Java and JVM to zero in on GPUs and containers

  Oracle says future Java developments will focus on improving language and runtime support for big data, machine learning, and cloud-native workloads

• IT needs to make mobile unified communications a priority

  As more corporate workers rely on mobile devices, enterprises need to adopt mobile unified communications, which is easier to scale and manage than wired UC.

• Government to boost fines for privacy breaches

  The government says it will legislate increase the penalties that can be levied under the Privacy Act to 10 per cent of a company’s turnover, $10 million or three times the value of a benefit obtained through the misuse of information, whichever is greater, up from a current cap of $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches.

• Melbourne Uni fights spaghetti threat with iPaaS

  The University of Melbourne has increased its use of cloud services as part of a broader innovation agenda — but that emphasis has brought with it the dangers of reverting to a previous condition of “spaghetti architecture,” according to Tommy Hoeglund​.