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• Telstra boosts subsea cable portfolio with 25 per cent stake in Southern Cross

  Telstra will purchase a 25 per cent stake in Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN), joining existing shareholders Spark New Zealand, Optus’ parent company Singtel and Verizon Business.

• Fishburners seeks to give a leg-up to regional startups

  A new service from Fishburners offers startup founders in regional areas the opportunity to take advantage of the organisation’s membership base and resources.

• Australian robotics champion joins CSIRO’s Data61

  CSIRO’s Data61 has appointed Dr Sue Keay to lead its Cyber Physical Systems program, which is focused on the “connection of digital devices to the physical environment”.

• Major telcos put on notice over complaints-handling

  Aussie Broadband, Dodo, Exetel, Foxtel, iiNet, M2, Internode, MyRepublic, Optus, PRimus, TPG, and Vodafone Hutchison Australia are among dozens of telecommunications service providers put on notice over failing to meet mandatory complaints-handling standards.

• Telstra declares Sydney and Melbourne sites 5G-ready

  Telstra has upgraded two base stations in Sydney and one in Melbourne in preparation for the expected launch next year of its first 5G services.

• Australian ‘neobank’ Xinja clears regulatory hurdle

  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a restricted banking licence to Xinja — a digital-only bank with a focus on mobile.

• Businesses sign up to Global Talent Scheme pilot

  ​Five organisations have signed up to the government’s pilot Global Talent Scheme (GTS) program, launched in July in a bid to make it easier for big business and tech start-ups to hire overseas talent for highly skilled roles.

• Soul Machines debuts DIY digital human

  Soul Machines, the NZ company behind digitally created avatars that can put a human-like face on chatbots, is offerings its customers a tool to enable them to customise its digital creations.

• Atlassian adds postmortem feature to JiraOps

  Atlassian wants to make it easier for IT teams to better understand their responses to major software outages and keep track of lessons learned.

• Fear and loathing defending ICS security at the Department of Energy's CyberForce Competition

  Defending critical infrastructure from determined attackers is not an easy task, CSO reporter J.M. Porup learned competing in the Department of Energy's CyberForce Competition 2018, a cyber security training initiative.

• NBN Co plans wireless revamp, download speeds of up to 75Mbps on the agenda

  NBN Co has released details of its plan to ditch one of its wireless wholesale speed tiers, replacing it with a new product that is expected to eventually support download speeds of up to 75 megabits per second (Mbps) in some circumstances.

• Brave browser goes 'full-Chromium' by adopting Google UI

  The release of Brave 0.57 earlier this month culminates a UI swap that began in March.

• Government to develop ‘Online Safety Charter’

  The government will develop an ‘Online Safety Charter’ that sets out its expectations from digital platforms.

• GE rolls out its industrial IoT platform Predix out into separate company

  Spinning the company’s Predix IIoT platform into its own company pulls GE's approach to the technology back into line with the competition.

• Augmented analytics: The future of data and analytics

  As the core of any digital business, analytics is at a critical inflection point. Data complexity is increasing and business people across the enterprise are drowning in data. They’re struggling to identify what’s most important and the best actions to take.