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• 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

• auDA pushes back implementation of direct .au domain registration

  .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), the custodian of the .au domain space, will delay introducing the direction registration of .au domains.

• Cuscal investigates spike in PayID lookups

  Payment processor Cuscal says it is working with one of its clients to investigate a “spike” in PayID enquiries and resolutions.

• Who's tracking you? Facebook users to get more control over data

  The social media site said if a user clears their off-Facebook activity, Facebook would remove the user's identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send.

• Woodside Energy to roll out cloud-based E&P environment

  Schlumberger has revealed details of a seven-year contract with resources company Woodside Energy for an enterprise-wide deployment of its exploration and production (E&P) platform DELFI.

• New rules allow Google to bring ‘Project Soli’ motion sensing tech to Australia

  New spectrum rules introduced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) allow Google to bring its touchless interaction technology ‘Project Soli’ to Australia.