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• Microsoft wages war on passwords

  Microsoft is “declaring an end to the era of passwords,” according to Frank X. Shaw, the company’s corporate vice president, communications.

• Microsoft explores AI’s potential to tackle humanitarian crises

  Microsoft has launched a program aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to aid humanitarian causes.

• New Azure IoT offering makes the physical, virtual

  Microsoft will next month launch a public preview of an Azure IoT service that helps businesses build a digital representation of a physical environment.

• Former NewSat director to stand trial

  The former director of NewSat will stand trial after three charges were brought against him by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

• The password is dead, long live Web Authentication

  Stealing the password to a villain’s secret lair and infiltrating it to spring an elaborate trap might seem like an action movie cliché. In reality, it’s often villains who use passwords to infiltrate the accounts of individuals and organisations, setting a trap to steal private and financial information of innocent citizens.

• Getting the most out of Kubernetes

  Seventy-three percent of companies now have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure already in the cloud. With multi-cloud environments on the rise, containers have become a major driving force for businesses and developers because of their portability between cloud providers.

• Banking regulator warms to cloud computing

  The head of Australia’s financial services regulator says it is taking a “more open stance on cloud usage” among banks.

• Tech companies to attend White House quantum computing meeting

  The White House will host a meeting focused on U.S. government efforts to boost quantum information science, with administration officials, leading companies including Alphabet Inc, IBM, JPMorgan Chase and academic experts taking part.

• ScienceLogic brings AI to IT operations

  Dave Link says he founded ScienceLogic because of his belief that after working in IT operations for much of his career he considered the discipline to be broken.

• Government appears intent on fast-tracking encryption bill

  The government appears set on swift passage through parliament of the Telecommunication and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018, which Canberra argues is vital to helping police and intelligence agencies mitigate the impact of encrypted communications services on their investigations.

• First CEO and refreshed board at RegTech Association

  ​Industry body for the burgeoning regulation technology sector – the RegTech Association (RTA) – has appointed a new CEO and two board members.

• 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”.