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• AustCyber calls for cool heads after encryption bill passed

  AustCyber – the government funded not-for-profit tasked with growing the Australian cyber security sector – has called for cool heads following the passage of the so-called encryption bill by parliament.

• MNF Group wins Inabox takeover tussle

  Inabox shareholders have voted to accept an offer by MNF Group that will see the MyNetFone owner acquire all of Inabox Group’s operating businesses.

• ACCC asks whether telcos get enough data from NBN Co

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s inquiry into NBN Co’s wholesale service standards has entered its “next phase,” the ACCC said today.

• Microsoft Edge embraces open-source Chromium code, plans move to Windows 7, 8, and Macs

  Microsoft's Edge is embracing the open-source Chromium project and expanding to other operating systems.

• IBM offloads software products to HCL Technologies in $1.8B deal

  HCL Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire some IBM software products in a US$1.8 billion deal.

• Top Huawei executive arrested on US request

  The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, stirring up fears it could reignite a Sino-U.S. trade row and roiling global stock markets.

• Docker CEO on driving enterprise and the future of open source

  Steve Singh outlined the growing enterprise business case for the container specialist and his expectations for the future of open infrastructure.

• Encryption bill becomes law after Labor backdown

  The government was handed a last-minute victory yesterday, with opposition leader Bill Shorten and shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus scrapping plans to amend controversial encryption legislation.

• Inside Docker and Microsoft's new open source standard

  Docker and Microsoft are making a joint bid for what they hope will be a "universal standard" to significantly simplify distributed computing.

• Huawei security fears - paranoia, blowback, or both?

  BT has made the decision to strip the equipment of Huawei from its core EE 4G network among growing security concerns about the Chinese telecom infrastructure giant's critical infrastructure footprint. Can - or should - any blame be laid on Huawei, or is this a result of paranoia, projection, or a severe lack of government oversight?

• Imagining the future of Australian health care

  Between 2015-16, 10.6 million hospitalisations occurred in Australian public and private hospitals. In the same period, 712,000 patients were admitted to public hospitals from elective surgery waiting lists, only half were admitted within 37 days.

• Is an SD-WAN managed service right for you?

  Managed SD-WAN can be an appropriate solution for the enterprise, but due diligence is necessary to determine if it is the best fit.

• Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg questioned the business case for giving millions of outside software developers wide access to customer data before endorsing the practice in 2012, according to internal emails published on Wednesday.

• Tesla, smarting from trade war, seeks bids for China Gigafactory construction

  Tesla has opened a tender process to build its Shanghai Gigafactory and at least one contractor has started buying materials, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, the clearest indication that construction is imminent.

• Australia’s ‘digital identity assets’ in danger, report

  “What if we had no evidence of who we are, what we own, who governs us, where we have come from?” writes Anne Lyons in ASPI report.