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• White House draft order directs probes into tech giants, report says

  The White House has drafted an executive order that would push federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to probe the business practices of social media and other internet companies, according to Bloomberg.

• Next.js 7 framework compiles faster, supports WebAssembly

  Better error reporting and support for the React context API are also added

• Raiz launches chatbot in response to banking Royal Commission

  Mobile micro-investing platform Raiz Invest has launched a chatbot in response to the financial services Royal Commission.

• IBM claims new tool can ‘explain AI’ and detect bias

  ​IBM has launched a software service that it claims can explain how AI makes decisions “as the decisions are being made”.

• New warning for telcos over handling of NBN complaints

  The head of the ACMA says that the regulator has found evidence that telcos are not abiding by new complaints-handling rules.

• Adobe forks out US$4.75 billion for Marketo

  Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marketo, announcing that it would shell out US$4.75 billion for the marketing technology company.

• Court backs TV company’s bid to block illicit set-top box streaming

  A Hong Kong broadcaster has been successful in its application for a site-blocking injunction that is intended to block illicit set-top box streaming.

• A winning culture underpins digital transformation

  With winter just having ended in Australia, it offers people the opportunity to reflect on events that happened over the past six months. July brought the end of the greatest sports competition in the world, the FIFA World Cup.

• Enterprises expected to implement annual Windows 10 upgrade pace

  The prediction from Gartner's Stephen Kleynhans follows Microsoft's announcement that it will extend support for Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education to 30 months.

• Alarm over government’s encryption bill rush

  The government has introduced its bill to help mitigate the impact of encrypted communications services on police investigations just 10 days after closing a public consultation on an exposure draft of the proposed legislation.

• ASIC clamps down on dodgy ICOs and crypto asset funds

  ​The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today revealed it had stepped in to stop five initial coin offerings (ICOs) from raising capital since April.

• CSIRO launches serverless 'search engine for the genome' on Alibaba Cloud

  ​Trials of CRISPR/Cas9 are getting underway around the world. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9, to give it its full name, holds huge promise for tackling cancer, hereditary blindness, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, hepatitis B, Huntington’s disease and even high cholesterol.

• Telstra turns drones into ‘cells on wings’ for mobile coverage

  ​A drone equipped with a small mobile base station could be used to provide mobile coverage in the aftermath of natural disasters.

• First section of INDIGO West cable laid

  The first section new subsea cable that will connect Australia’s west coast to Singapore has landed at Floreat Beach in Perth.

• Renault-Nissan adopts Android in coup for Google

  The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi carmaking alliance says it will adopt Alphabet's Google Android operating system, handing a victory to the U.S. tech giant as it pushes for a bigger share of the infotainment market.