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• A pirate-obsessed Nigerian hacking group is attacking the maritime industry

  A criminal splinter faction from a pirate symbology-obsessed Nigerian 'confraternity' has been running business email compromise scams for hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting the global maritime industry, according to security researchers who have been tracing the 'GOLD GALLEON' group and trying to derail its scams in real time.

• Inside Facebook's plan to limit the impact of GDPR protections

  If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller.

• Australian start-up Fleet Space aims to enable IoT globally

  Adelaide-based startup Fleet Space Technologies is a small company with big ambitions: “to design, build and launch the technology that will become the digital nervous system for our planet, drive a connected world and unlock the next industrial revolution.”

• Hundreds sign up to ride a bus with no driver in Melbourne

  Close to a thousand members of the public and students have signed up to take a ride in La Trobe University’s new autonomous shuttle bus, with trials commencing next week.

• Acquisition boosts Equinix’s Australian data centre portfolio to 15

  Data centre operator Equinix has completed its acquisition of Metronode, adding 10 data centres to its Australian portfolio.

• EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google's Android, AdSense is advancing

  Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system and its AdSense advertising service to thwart rivals are advancing, Europe's antitrust chief has revealed, amid concern about the lengthy proceedings.

• Qualcomm begins layoffs as part of cost cuts: Report

  Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut costs by US$1 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

• Regional Australia’s ‘first Tier III data centre’ opens

  The data centre is situated on a 29 hectare site which will become Toowoomba Technology Park.

• Microsoft holds up Windows 10 feature upgrade after finding BSOD bug

  The company delayed the update, which had been expected to arrive on either April 3 or April 10, for an unspecified period.

• Data61 ports seL4 microkernel to RISC-V architecture

  Data61 has released an initial version of the seL4 microkernel for the RISC-V architecture

• Optus Wholesale adds FTTC to NBN portfolio

  Optus Wholesale has begun offering fibre to the curb (FTTC) connections as part of its Residential Broadband over NBN (RBBoNBN) product.

• Airlines back creation of global drone registry: IATA

  The world's airlines are backing the development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, as a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets fuels safety concerns, according to an executive of their trade group.

• Tech firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, vow not to aid government cyber attacks

  Microsoft, Facebook and more than 30 other global technology companies have announced a joint pledge not to assist any government in offensive cyber attacks.

• Govt review: auDA needs to fix its problems — or else

  The government has called for significant changes to .au Domain Administration (auDA) — and says that in the absence of reform it will seek expressions of interest from other organisations for the management of Australia’s top-level .au domain.

• Russia blocks Google, Amazon IP addresses in bid to ban Telegram

  Russia's state communications regulator says it has blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the Telegram messaging service which Moscow moved to ban this week.