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• NSW seeks boost to state’s cyber sector with ‘innovation node’

  Addressing the state's infosec skills shortage will be one of the key focuses of the NSW Cyber Innovation Node, which was formally launched today.

• Near to go far with funding boost

  ​A Telstra backed platform which claims to hold “the largest data-set of people’s behaviour in the real-world” has raised $143M in a Series D funding round.

• NBN Co hits gigabit HFC downloads with in-field DOCSIS 3.1 trial

  NBN Co says it hit speeds of up to 994 megabits per second over a hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) connection during an in-field trial of DOCSIS 3.1 technology.

• Upcoming Windows 10 1909: Update or upgrade? Microsoft clarifies

  The next version of Windows 10, due out later this year, will continue to offer Windows Update for Business controls, Redmond says.

• Companies with zero-trust network security move toward biometric authentication

  According to new research, more companies are enabling biometric authentication on devices to verify access requests.

• Microsoft open sources quantum computing SDK

  Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit includes the Q# quantum programming language, samples, and tutorials

• In systemic breach, hackers steal millions of Bulgarians' financial data

  Bulgaria's finance minister apologized to the country on Tuesday after admitting hackers had stolen millions of taxpayers' financial data in an attack that one researcher said may have compromised nearly every adult's personal records.

• Facebook plans Workplace price hike, adds new Enterprise option

  Alongside adding an Enterprise tier to provide faster support response, Facebook hopes to push more frontline worker deployments.

• How IBM tweaked its Wimbledon highlight-picking AI to remove bias

  IBM has been tweaking the AI-powered highlight picking algorithm it deploys during the Wimbledon tennis championships this year.

• What is a computer virus? How they spread and 5 signs you've been infected

  A computer virus is a form of malicious software that piggybacks onto legitimate application code in order to spread and reproduce itself.

• Data retention: Government gave Optus ‘exemption’ from encrypting metadata

  Optus says that it would have struggled to comply with its legislative obligations without a decision by the government that exempted it from a requirement to encrypt all metadata collect as part of Australia’s data retention regime.

• Dozens more government agencies accessing 'metadata'

  More than 100 federal, state and local government agencies are known to be accessing so-called telecommunications ‘metadata’ despite not being among the list of enforcement agencies included in the data retention legislation.

• Vodafone to refund customers over ‘premium’ content billing

  Vodafone is the latest telco to fall afoul of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over its Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) service.

• Federal government renews, revamps Microsoft procurement deal

  The federal government has renewed its whole of government volume sourcing arrangement (VSA) with Microsoft.

• Symantec ends talks to sell to Broadcom over price: sources

  Cybersecurity company Symantec has walked away from negotiations to sell itself to chipmaker Broadcom Inc over price disagreements, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.