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• ASIC licenses crowd-sourced equity funding platforms

  The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued licences to seven companies as part of the new crowd-sourced equity funding regime.

• Intel fabricates 49-qubit test chip for partner QuTech

  The new chip, Krzanich said, is “a major breakthrough for quantum computing” and comes just two months after Intel announced it had fabricated a 17-qubit test-chip.

• Privacy Commissioner completes Amazing Rentals data breach investigation

  The Australian Privacy Commissioner has completed an investigation into a data breach affecting customers of Amazing Rentals.

• ACMA releases class licence for intelligent transport systems

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued regulations to support the rollout of intelligent transport systems (ITS).

• Govt digital transformation should focus on better services, not cost cutting: Union

  The federal government should stop focusing on “digital transformation” primarily as a means of generating savings as opposed to delivering better services, according to the Community and Public Sector Union.

• Part of brain that triggers 'uncanny valley' unease pinpointed

  When robots are made to look more human-like, we become more empathetic towards them. Make them too realistic, however, and those positive feelings quickly turn to revulsion and spark similar reactions to those we would have to seeing a corpse.

• Vodafone IT system flaw leads to breach of mobile ID rules

  Changes to a Vodafone IT system led to the telco failing to verify the identity of more than 1000 customers when activating their prepaid mobile services.

• Nvidia updates drivers in response to Spectre

  Nvidia is updating the software for its graphics processors in response to the Spectre security threat, but its chief executive says its chips were not subject to the same risks as those from Intel and other companies.

• Amazon Alexa arrives on Windows 10 PCs as virtual assistants go to work

  HP, Acer, Asus and Lenovo debut Windows 10 laptops and PCs supporting Alexa at this year’s CES. IT leaders are generally supportive of Amazon’s enterprise push.

• How Cisco’s newest security tool can detect malware in encrypted traffic

  Cisco’s Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), a software platform that monitors network packet metadata to detect malicious traffic, even if its encrypted, is now generally available.

• Meltdown and Spectre patches: Where to start and what to expect

  You need to apply Meltdown and Spectre patches to pretty much everything in your enterprise. And you need to start now. We help you prioritize.

• What is SSL/TLS? (And why it’s time to upgrade to TLS 1.3)

  The TLS protocol encrypts internet traffic of all types, making secure internet communication (and therefore internet commerce) possible. Here are the basics of how it works and what comes next.

• What is DevSecOps? Developing more secure applications

  DevSecOps is about introducing security earlier in the life cycle of application development, thus minimizing vulnerabilities and bringing security closer to IT and business objectives.

• Australia’s business visa system ‘uncompetitive’, Google says

  Google has called on the federal government to “fix skilled migration policy,” revealing that the 2017 changes to the skilled migration visa system compelled the tech company to “revise its Australian recruitment plans.”

• Microsoft: Patches to guard against Spectre, Meltdown slowing down PCs, servers

  Microsoft says that software patches released to guard against the Spectre and Meltdown microchip security threats slowed down some personal computers and servers, with systems running on older Intel processors seeing a noticeable decrease in performance.