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• AI, space technology added to CSIRO’s ‘future science’ program

  The CSIRO has added artificial intelligence and space technology to its Future Science Platforms (FSP) program, the research organisation announced today.

• More like su-don’t: Health Department seeks to clamp down on privileged accounts

  The Department of Health is seeking software to help it manage privileged user accounts as it strives to comply with one of the mandatory security requirements for Commonwealth entities.

• NBN Co CEO rejects calls for price cuts

  NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has rejected calls by telcos to cut the company’s wholesale prices.

• NAB to roll out support for Alipay

  NAB has become the first of Australia’s big four banks to support the Alibaba Group-backed Alipay mobile payment platform.

• Oracle veteran to take charge of Google Cloud

  Former Oracle product chief Thomas Kurian will replace Diane Greene as head of the cloud division at Google in the coming weeks, Greene announced in a blog post on Friday, after a tumultuous year for the business.

• Firefox adds in-browser notification of breached sites

  Mozilla added the alert system to its browser as a way or warning users who visit a site that's reported a data breach.

• BlackBerry to buy Cylance for $1.4B

  BlackBerry has raised its bets on artificial intelligence and cyber security with the $1.4 billion purchase of machine-learning specialists Cylance.

• IBM reinforces enterprise multi-cloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion

  IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.

• Encryption bill: Security researchers warn of unintended consequences

  University of Melbourne researchers Dr Vanessa Teague and Dr Chris Culnane have warned that a lack of clarity around a key protection in a government’s surveillance bill poses a serious threat to the security of online communications

• Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth wishes Red Hat and IBM a happy marriage

  Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at the second of this year's Openstack Summits was considerably less controversial than the last, where he explicitly compared the price between Red Hat and Ubuntu's services in Vancouver. However he still had plenty to say when Computerworld UK caught up with the hobby astronaut and entrepreneur on the show floor.

• First Houdini APIs for CSS layout debut

  The W3C effort is meant to give developers more control over how a web page looks

• Amid calls for a Windows bug status dashboard, Microsoft belatedly agrees to build one

  The move, expected to roll out in 2019, comes in the aftermath of the company's botched rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

• New horizons open up for NBN Co’s Sky Muster satellite service

  Changes to how NBN Co operates its satellite service will open up new possibilities for the company to manage traffic as demand continues to grow for connectivity in regional Australia.

• SAP Leonardo adoption progressing despite user group apathy

  In June 2017 SAP relaunched a nascent product named after Leonardo Da Vinci to reflect its changing position from an IoT platform to a "digital innovation system".

• What is the MEAN stack? JavaScript web applications

  The web application stack powered by MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js leverages JavaScript from top to bottom