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• How Alphabet security moonshot Chronicle fits in at Google Cloud

  In late June this year, Google parent company Alphabet announced that Chronicle - the 'moonshot' or experimental spinout that would become an independent security company - would be folded into Google Cloud.

• Faulty network gear behind ATO tech woes

  An “intermittent error” from a network switch was responsible for a range of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) services being rendered inaccessible on Friday.

• Aurecon reveals ‘significant’ investment in Queensland AI firm

  Engineering giant Aurecon has announced a “significant” investment in artificial intelligence company ELARA.

• Airport queues blamed on processing system outage

  A problem with outbound passenger processing by Australian Border Force (ABF) has led to extensive queues in Australian airports, with ABF reportedly resorting to manual processing of outbound travellers.

• U.S. firms may get nod to restart Huawei sales in 2-4 weeks

  The U.S. may approve licenses for companies to re-start new sales to Huawei in as little as two weeks, according to a senior U.S. official, in a sign President Donald Trump's recent effort to ease restrictions on the Chinese company could move forward quickly.

• US considers barring big tech companies from offering financial services, digital currencies

  A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by the Democratic majority that leads the House Financial Services Committee, according to a copy of the draft legislation.

• Google defends 'critical' Assistant language experts who listen to your recordings

  Responding to Assistant audio transcriptions leaked by an employee, Google says the practice is essential to product development.

• How hearables will drive the attention economy

  A technology revolution in personal sound management will put you in control of your own attention in a noisy world.

• Golang 1.13 adds number literal prefixes

  Go language extensions should make it easier for programmers to move between Go and other C-family languages

• Human Services investigates cause of outage, rules out cyber attack

  The Department of Human Services has apologised for a major outage that took the government’s myGov service online during a period of peak demand as people attempt to file tax returns.

• CBA warns customers of systems upgrade

  ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s online banking and CommBank app will be unavailable, or suffer limited functionality, from midnight tonight until 9am tomorrow due to a planned systems upgrade.

• Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook's Libra, demands they face banking regulations

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized Bitcoin, Facebook's proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies seek a banking charter and make themselves subject to U.S. and global regulations if they wanted to "become a bank."

• Data over songs: Hiding bits in pop hits

  ​A song can convey so much; a story, a mood, an emotion and up to 400 bits per second, thanks to new technique developed by researchers at ETH Zurich.

• The path to microservices

  Applications professionals face increasing pressure to deliver applications quickly and support rapid scaling. Microservices appear to be the shining light, promising development agility, deployment flexibility and precise scalability.

• myGov, ATO hit by outages

  The myGov portal operated by the Department of Human Services has suffered a major outage.