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• Scat-collecting drones to help preserve threatened species

  The University of Western Australia has been awarded a grant to help its work protecting threatened species.

• Alibaba and the $15 billion question: Amid Hong Kong's protests, when to list?

  Hong Kong's political unrest is posing a dilemma for Alibaba Group on the timing of its planned US$15 billion listing in the city, with sources saying China's biggest e-commerce company is now considering several timetables.

• ASX prepares for October launch of data analytics webstore

  Securities market operator ASX Limited is preparing to make initial services on its new data analytics platform, dubbed ASX DataSphere, available to customers in October. DataSphere brings together ASX and third party data to drive a range of tools that can be purchased through a web-based store.

• AFP, AustCyber back ‘hackathon’ to help find missing people

  The Australian Federal Police is supporting a hackathon intended to generate new leads that can help locate missing people.

• The impact of machine learning on security

  Machine learning (ML) is changing security in much the same way that it’s changing other fields. Although many tools are immature or overhyped, vendors are starting to offer legitimately effective solutions for a growing collection of security uses.

• Why the cloud has led to organisations having an explosion of unaccounted for apps

  While it’s become standard for most businesses to leverage the cloud for at least part of their IT services, applications, or infrastructure, the ease of access to cloud-based IT is creating complexities for IT teams.

• Apple CEO warns Trump about China tariffs, Samsung competition

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple's chief executive Tim Cook about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports as well as competition from South Korean company Samsung.

• US set to give Huawei another 90 days to buy from American suppliers: sources

  The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm to buy supplies from U.S. companies so that it can service existing customers, two sources familiar with the situation said.

• What happens when cyber attackers reach quantum-advantage?

  Thales is investing in a large ecosystem of partners to work on quantum-resistant cryptography: without it, legacy cryptography could be broken overnight.

• The best and worst of Black Hat 2019

  Security rock stars? Fake science? This year's Black Hat had it all.

• Telstra to raise $700m by selling, leasing back 37 exchanges

  Telstra has established a property trust to own 37 of its exchanges, with the telco selling a 49 per cent stake in the trust to a Charter Hall-led consortium.

• Instagram adds tool for users to flag false information

  Instagram is adding an option for users to report posts they think are false, the company announced on Thursday, as the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site tries to stem misinformation and other abuses on its platform.

• Coates Hire eyes opportunities in ML, IoT after cloud move

  Coates Hire’s chief information officer, Ben Waterhouse, says the company’s Azure migration has not only cut costs but allowed the company to explore new opportunities involving IoT and machine learning services.

• PHP plus: P++ proposal would create a stricter dialect

  It's not a fork, but a stricter version that could leave compatibility baggage behind and add new features more easily

• Public Transport Victoria breached privacy rules with Myki data release

  Public Transport Victoria (PTV), now part of the state’s Department of Transport, breached the law when it released supposedly de-identified data relating to the use of Melbourne’s Myki card.