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• Huawei sheds Australian jobs as 5G ban begins to bite

  Huawei says it has cut its Australian headcount by 100, with the Chinese telco equipment manufacturer blaming a government decision to bar it from participating in the roll out of 5G networks.

• HP CEO Dion Weisler set to depart

  Dion Weisler has unveiled plans to exit as CEO of HP, returning home to Australia due to a “family health matter”.

• Ruffle project hopes to resurrect Flash Player

  The project uses Rust and WebAssembly to allow playback of Flash media more securely than the original Adobe player

• Ruby on Rails 6.0 adds rich text capabilities

  JavaScript, database support also get nods

• Microsoft promotes 'full-Chromium' Edge to Beta, touts enterprise skillset

  Microsoft has launched a Beta build of its browser for all supported editions of Windows, including 7 and 10, and macOS.

• Origin Energy grows broadband base

  Origin Energy ended FY19 with around 8000 broadband customers, the company reported today.

• Former CBA IT exec unlikely to face trial until 2020

  Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia IT executive Jon Waldron is unlikely to stand trial before May 2020 at the earliest.

• Vocus revenues flat following 'year of significant change'

  Vocus has come out a self-described "year of significant change" with a 44 per cent drop in net profit after tax (NPAT) to $34 million.

• Coles’ online business makes a profit for the first time

  Coles Online for the first time in its two-decade history achieved profitability in FY19.

• Cisco: 6 critical security alarms for UCS software, small-biz routers

  Cisco finds critical bugs in its Unified communications Director and Director Express software for Big Data packages as well as its Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches.

• Splunk to buy SignalFx for $1 billion

  ​Data analytics software maker Splunk on Wednesday said it would acquire privately held SignalFx, which makes software for the cloud, in a cash and stock deal for about US$1.05 billion.

• Big Switch targets shadow IT, hybrid cloud growth with fortified software family

  Big Switch's new products include a version of its Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) for Amazon Web Services virtual private cloud (VPC) management, adding support for Global VPCs (G-VPCs), and a cloud-based version of its Multi-Cloud Director (MCD).

• Intel reveals more about its Lakefield stacked CPU, due to ship in late 2019

  Intel pegged late 2019 to ship its Lakefield technology, which stacks Sunny Cove and Atom CPUs to share the processing load. We expect it to be used for thin-and-light laptops.

• Intel announces Comet Lake, a faster, 10th-gen Whiskey Lake chip for mainstream laptops

  Intel's new Comet Lake processor is essentially a faster version of Whiskey Lake with some 10th-gen features added to it, forming the foundation of business notebook PCs and some mainstream laptops.

• Automated machine learning or AutoML explained

  AutoML frameworks and services eliminate the need for skilled data scientists to build machine learning and deep learning models