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• ACCC chair defends opposition to TPG-Vodafone tie-up

  International experience shows having four mobile operators in a market delivers better outcomes for consumers, the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said, defending a decision to oppose a proposed merger between Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) and TPG.

• How Estonia set a global benchmark for e-government

  Estonia has earned a reputation as the world's most advanced digital society, with over 99 percent of its public services now available online.

• Australian ‘unicorn’ Canva hacked

  High-profile Australian startup Canva has revealed details of significant security breach.

• Paul Fletcher to oversee last leg of NBN rollout after Morrison’s ministerial reshuffle

  Paul Fletcher will oversee the rollout of the National Broadband Network as Australia’s new communications minister, ahead of the scheduled completion of the NBN in 2020.

• ACCC head calls for scrutiny of tech giants’ acquisition sprees

  Regulators around the world tasked with overseeing anti-trust regimes are asking whether current rules governing mergers are enough to protect competition in the face of the acquisition sprees of major tech companies, according to Rod Sims.

• VHA makes good on court threat after ACCC blocks TPG merger

  Vodafone Hutchison Australia has launched legal action in the Federal Court seeking approval to merge with TPG.

• Myriota touts IoT satellite service’s ability to scale, power-efficiency

  Adelaide-based Myriota says it is the first Australian company to gain general access to Amazon Web Services’ AWS Ground Station ‘antenna as a service’ offering for satellites.

• Wearable brain devices sold with questionable claims

  ​Wearable ‘neurotechnology’ devices have in recent years hit the mainstream market; pitched to consumers as a way to improve memory and attention, boost brain fitness and control games and objects with the power of the mind.

• Waze traffic data could cut ambulance arrival times by 60 per cent

  A study in California has found ‘crash alerts’ are posted on Google’s community-based traffic and navigation app Waze an average two minutes and 41 seconds sooner a corresponding 911 call.

• US charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with espionage

  The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information.

• Study: most enterprise IoT transactions are unencrypted

  Of the millions of enterprise-Internet of Things​ transactions examined in a recent study, the vast majority were sent without benefit of encryption.

• GitHub launches ‘Sponsors’ feature to fund open source projects

  GitHub has unveiled a new way to financially support developers that use the company’s platform to host their open source projects.

• Optus: Access ‘remains stable’ following major outage

  ​Optus says access to international internet, streaming and gaming services “remains stable” following a major outage affecting customers last night.

• Tasmania inches closer to justice ICT overhaul

  The Tasmanian government has earmarked funds from its Digital Transformation Priority Expenditure Program for a number of major tech initiatives in the state, including the ongoing Justice Connect project.

• Australian businesses split over where AI accountability lies

  Australian companies are split over whether they or the providers of artificial intelligence solutions should be responsible for its outcomes, according to a LivePerson-commissioned survey by research firm Fifth Quadrant.