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• NBN migrations boost Optus revenue, but 1H profit drops

  Optus saw an increase in customers and higher NBN migration payments which helped the telco's revenue grow 1.8 per cent, to $4.4 billion for the half year ended 30 September but that was not enough to help Optus' profit.

• Telstra calls for government help to combat 5G fears

  The government should step in and help counter misconceptions about the safety of 5G, Telstra says.

• Amazon's war on Microsoft's $10B Pentagon cloud deal heats up

  Amazon.com is contesting the Pentagon's award of an up to US$10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft.

• Uptake of NBN Co’s slowest speed tier grows for the first time in a year

  New figures released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissioner (ACCC) have revealed that services on NBN Co’s slowest wholesale speed tier — which offers downloads of up to 12 megabits per second and 1Mbps uploads — have increased for the first time since mid-2018.

• Rigetti, CBA test quantum computing’s financial potential

  Researchers from Rigetti Computing and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia say they have taken an important step towards the use of quantum computing in the financial services sector.

• Huawei, ZTE 'cannot be trusted' and pose security threat: U.S. attorney general

  Huawei and ZTE "cannot be trusted," U.S. Attorney General William Barr said, labeling the Chinese firms a security threat as he backed a proposal to bar U.S. rural wireless carriers from tapping an US$8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment or services from them.

• Activist stakeholder pushes for HP merger with Xerox

  Activist investor Carl Icahn has bought a US$1.2 billion stake in HP and is pushing for the personal computer maker's merger with Xerox.

• Web payment card skimmers add anti-forensics capabilities

  The newly discovered Pipka script can delete itself from a website after execution, making it very difficult to detect.

• Vic Health & Human Services to ditch unsupported finance system for Oracle’s cloud

  Victoria’s Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is gearing up for a mega-project to shift its finance system to the cloud.

• Microsoft shows off hybrid cloud management and cloud analytics tools at Ignite

  Enterprises will soon have access to Azure Arc and Azure Synapse Analytics, two new services that bolster Microsoft’s cloud offerings.

• Flaw in NSW’s iVote platform confirmed by researcher

  A security researcher has confirmed that the version of New South Wales’ online voting platform, iVote, employed during the 2019 election contained a vulnerability that potentially allowed the creation of false decryption proofs for ballots.

• Pawsey Centre launches hunt for new supercomputer

  The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has officially launched a tender process seeking a replacement for its Magnus and Galaxy system.

• Google says ACCC location data privacy claims ‘cherry-picked’

  A lawsuit filed by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says that Google has made misleading claims about the use of location data by the Android operating system. However, Google retorted today at a Federal Court case management hearing that the ACCC is ignoring important context to the Android settings at the heart of the case.

• Atlassian expands Jira Service Desk to non-IT biz teams

  Atlassian has expanded the focus of its Jira Service Desk to target a wider range of business teams, such as HR, legal and facilities workers.

• Microsoft (finally) delivers service pack-like Windows 10 1909

  The latest version of Windows 10 is little more than a rerun of the May version of the operating system, though it does offer a few new features.