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• Telstra strikes 5G edge deal with Cradlepoint

  Telstra will work with US company Cradlepoint to develop a ‘5G for Business’ offering that integrates with a 5G cellular modem and an edge router.

• Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020

  Gartner: Hyperautomation, AI-based security, distributed cloud computing and intelligent edge systems will be all the rage

• Slack adds app home screen, better app discoverability

  The collaboration software vendor is hoping to make it easier for developers to build apps for its platform, and help users find those apps once they're released.

• Cisco issues critical security warning for IOS XE REST API container

  This Cisco IOS XE REST API vulnerability could lead to attackers obtaining the token-id of an authenticated user.

• HTC launches a cheaper blockchain phone

  HTC is now selling the Exodus 1s, a blockchain-enabled smartphone that can natively store Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and costs less than half the price of its predecessor.

• Aruba rounds out edge-to-cloud strategy

  HPE Aruba's AOS-CX 10.4 software and stackable CX 6300 and modular CX 6400 Series switches offer intelligence, automation, security across networks.

• NBN Co CEO defends enterprise market push

  NBN Co’s chief executive has rejected criticism of the company’s efforts to increase its revenue from the business segment, with the network operator defending its direct engagement with major enterprises over the rollout of fibre services.

• Google Bazel builds and tests Bazel 1.0

  Open source build tool brings fast incremental builds to multiple languages, multiple platforms, and large code bases

• NSW takes step towards unified transport payment system

  The New South Wales government says its new Opal Connect service could become a ‘one stop shop’ for transport payments and information, potentially allowing users to pay for ridesharing, taxi services, road tolls and parking as well as public transport.

• Gartner: 10 infrastructure trends you need to know

  Gartner’s look at the top infrastructure and operational trends reflect offshoots of technologies – such as cloud computing, automation and networking advances the company’s analysts have talked about many times before.

• SkyWater gets $170 million from Pentagon for space-friendly chips

  Semiconductor maker SkyWater Technology said on Monday it will receive up to US$170 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to make chips that can work in outer space, and create smaller, faster ones with new materials.

• Parliament hack a ‘national cyber crisis’

  The Australian Signals Directorate says that it categorised the successful penetration of the Parliament House network as ‘C1’ on the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Cyber Incident Categorisation Matrix.

• Landmark White touts ISO 27001 certification

  Property valuation firm Landmark White has achieved ISO 27001 certification, the company announced this week.

• Russian group hijacked Iranian spying operation, say NSA, GCHQ

  Russian hackers piggy-backed on an Iranian cyber-espionage operation to attack government and industry organizations in dozens of countries while masquerading as attackers from the Islamic Republic, British and U.S. officials said on Monday.

• Hitachi Vantara CTO on quantum, data ethics, and public trust

  When quantum computing moves from the theoretical world into the applied space it threatens to break apart the accepted modus operandi of much of the technology industry, something Hubert Yoshida, the CTO of Hitachi Vantara is keenly aware of.