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• ‘Fresh blood’ seeking employers welcome revived mainframe course

  A cohort of students are preparing to start a revived mainframe degree course this winter, a program welcomed by employers faced with a looming skills crisis within their organisations.

• Quantum computing will break encryption in a few years

  Quantum technology’s set to make public-key infrastructure obsolete before too long, but it might also keep your data secure.

• $160M more goes into mobile blackspot program

  The Government's Mobile Blackspot Program will get an extra $320 million funding that will be divided in two equal funding rounds.

• Volvo vehicles to pull themselves over if being driven drunk

  ​New model Volvo vehicles will automatically pull over and call for assistance if a driver is driving erratically or not focusing on the road, the manufacturer has announced.

• Google fined €1.49 billion for search ad blocks in third EU sanction

  ​Google has been fined 1.49 billion euros (US$1.7 billion), its third large European Union antitrust penalty in two years marking the company's decade-long regulatory battle in Europe.

• NZ super funds call for action from Facebook, Google and Twitter

  The CEOs of five of New Zealand’s largest superannuation funds have added their voices to those of the CEOs of Vodafone, Spark and 2degrees calling for Facebook, Google and Twitter to do more to prevent the spread of content such as that live streamed by the Christchurch mosque shooter.

• LLVM 8 shines on WebAssembly, machine learning workloads

  The open source compiler framework adds full support for WebAssembly and speedups for AMD GPUs and Intel neural network instructions

• Social media, ISP execs to face PM grilling over role in spreading hate

  ​Executives from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter will meet with Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, to discuss measures to curb ‘hate content’ on their platforms, it has been reported.

• What next for SAP HANA?

  Once hailed by SAP CEO Bill McDermott as the vendor's "biggest launch in 23 years, if not in the entire history of the company" - what now for HANA?

• Aluminium maker Hydro battles to contain ransomware attack

  Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, battled on Tuesday to contain a cyber attack which halted parts of its production, the latest example of the damage hackers can cause to business and industry.

• Qualcomm embeds Cog’s virtualization tech in Snapdragon chips

  Qualcomm Technologies says it will embed an Australian-developed virtualization platform in select Snapdragon chips, including the new Snapdragon 855.

• Microsoft offers security service to political parties, candidates

  Microsoft has brought AccountGuard to Australia, offering the free security service to candidates, parties, and campaign offices that operate at a state or national level. AccountGuard is also available to eligible Australian think tanks and associated entities.

• Telstra chalks up mobile milestone

  Telstra revealed today that it had connected its 10,000th mobile site, with the 5G site coming online some 32 years after the telco first began delivering cellular services.

• Woolworths plans to roll out ‘visual analytics’ platform

  Woolworths Group will roll out Tableau Software’s data reporting and visual analytics platform.

• NAB's chief architect on multi-cloud, data science automation

  "Switching on the high beams to see what twists and turns we may need to lean into in the road ahead is fascinating and fun," Komarov says.