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• NSW revamps top cyber security role

  Tony Chapman will lead a new cyber security office within the New South Wales government’s Department of Customer Service.

• Optus expands commercial 5G services

  Optus says that by the end of the month customers in parts of the western Sydney suburbs of Bonnyrigg and Minchinbury, Niagara Park on the NSW Central Coast, Cook in the ACT and the Brisbane suburb of Kenmore will be able to order 5G services.

• Boeing says it has corrected simulator software of 737 MAX jets

  Boeing has made corrections to simulator software that mimics the flying experience of its 737 MAX jets, which were involved in two fatal crashes, and the company has provided additional information to device operators, according to a spokesman.

• Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist, source says

  Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.

• Arq Group sells wholesale reseller arm TPP for $24M

  Arq Group is to divest its TPP Wholesale reseller business in a bid to cut its debt following a period of plummeting profits.

• HPE to buy Cray, offer HPC as a service

  High-performance computing offerings from HPE plus Cray could enable things like AI, ML, high-speed financial trading, creation digital twins for entire enterprise networks.

• Lessons learned from an S/4HANA public cloud migration by Spirit Airlines

  Budget US airline Spirit is in the process of moving from SAP's legacy ECC enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to S/4HANA public cloud but it has had to overcome some challenges on the way to what it says is a very different system for its users to get to grips with.

• Appian CEO Matt Calkins: openness is the way to go

  Appian founder and board game designer Matt Calkins believes that "openness is the way to go" with regards to running the proprietary low-code provider, and said that - while there are no plans at present - he hasn't ruled out open sourcing some of the components across the platform.

• Movie studios unswayed by ‘search engine’ argument in anti-piracy case

  Legal counsel for a group of movie studios has dismissed an argument that an overseas-hosted site that links to videos but doesn’t host them does not fall afoul of Australia’s anti-piracy laws.

• APTs actively exploiting 2017 Telerik vulnerabilities , ACSC warns

  Vulnerabilities in unpatched versions Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX are being actively exploited, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has warned.

• Microsoft, Sony partner on streaming games, chips and AI

  Microsoft and Sony say they have struck a strategic partnership in which Sony will use Microsoft's cloud for streaming games and media and the two will work together to develop new image sensors.

• Banks to join forces for blockchain-based settlement project

  Several of the world's largest banks are in the process of investing around US$50 million to create a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle financial transactions, according to people familiar with the plans.

• Fujitsu developing 'real quantum computer'

  Fujitsu is developing a "real quantum computer" the head of the company's research lab has revealed.

• Microsoft unveils full-stack web templates for Visual Studio Code

  Wizard-driven Web Template Studio extension for VS Code speeds creation of web apps with React, Node, and Azure services

• Microsoft sets post-retirement patching record with Windows XP fix, 5 years after support ended

  The update – aimed at stopping the spread of WannaCry-like malware – must be manually downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog.