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• Australian Cyber Security Centre moves into new digs

  The government has cut the ribbon on the new home of the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

• Fines, prison for non-consensual sharing of intimate images

  Corporations could face fines in excess of half a million dollars if they fail to take down non-consensually posted intimate images — so-called “revenge porn”.

• NBN Co walks back wireless pricing proposal

  NBN Co’s CEO Bill Morrow said today that the company would dump a proposed pricing construct that could have seen the wholesale pricing of some fixed wireless NBN services pegged at $20 above an equivalent fixed line service.

• NBN Co almost doubles revenue in a year

  In Bill Morrow’s last full year results briefing before he leaves the role, the NBN Co chief executive today revealed that the company’s revenue for the 12 months ended 30 June had hit $1.99 billion — a 98 per cent increase on the prior year.

• ASX eyes further opportunities for blockchain tech

  ASX Limited, which operates the Australian Securities Exchange, says that it is eyeing broader opportunities for a new blockchain-inspired platform set to replace one of its key systems.

• Westpac CIO Dave Curran to leave bank

  Westpac’s group chief information officer, Dave Curran, will leave the bank at the end of January next year.

• Increased competition, NBN rollout hit Telstra profits

  Telstra has continued to build its mobile and fixed broadband customer base but the company’s full-year results reveal the impact on the telco of the continuing migration to the National Broadband Network and a competition-driven decrease in average revenue per user (ARPU).

• What is data deduplication, and how is it implemented?

  By eliminating redundant blocks of data within a dataset – deduplication – enterprises can reduce the size of backups 90-99%.

• Govt report reveals cost of data retention for Australia’s telcos

  As of the end of FY17, Australian telecommunications providers had incurred more than $176 million in capital costs related to complying with the government’s mandatory data retention regime.

• Wireless services may cost more than fixed line with new NBN Co pricing

  NBN Co is preparing to launch a bundled fixed wireless product that will see retail service providers (RSPs) pay significantly more than for the equivalent fixed line offering.

• Optus stops chasing Telstra over ‘unlimited’ ad damages

  Optus has stopped chasing Telstra over damages the Singtel subsidiary it may have suffered due to a Telstra “unlimited” advertising campaign, which a court found to be misleading.

• Telstra starts declaring mobile sites ‘5G-ready’

  Telstra revealed today that it had begun switching on 5G support at a range of its mobile sites on the Gold Coast, as it prepares to begin offering services based on the new standard.

• ACCC tasked with drawing up new open banking rules

  It will be the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to determine how a new Consumer Data Right (CDR) will apply to a particular sector of the economy, under draft legislation released today by the government.

• Intel discloses three more chip flaws

  Intel has disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.

• What are microservices?

  The origin of the term 'microservices' may not be that easy to pin down, but over the past decade the approach to application development and management has reached near ubiquity in the enterprise, with everyone from Spotify to the BBC shifting from monolithic architectures to embrace microservices.