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• Govt report reveals cost of data retention for Australia’s telcos

  As of the end of FY17, Australian telecommunications providers had incurred more than $176 million in capital costs related to complying with the government’s mandatory data retention regime.

• Wireless services may cost more than fixed line with new NBN Co pricing

  NBN Co is preparing to launch a bundled fixed wireless product that will see retail service providers (RSPs) pay significantly more than for the equivalent fixed line offering.

• Optus stops chasing Telstra over ‘unlimited’ ad damages

  Optus has stopped chasing Telstra over damages the Singtel subsidiary it may have suffered due to a Telstra “unlimited” advertising campaign, which a court found to be misleading.

• Telstra starts declaring mobile sites ‘5G-ready’

  Telstra revealed today that it had begun switching on 5G support at a range of its mobile sites on the Gold Coast, as it prepares to begin offering services based on the new standard.

• ACCC tasked with drawing up new open banking rules

  It will be the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to determine how a new Consumer Data Right (CDR) will apply to a particular sector of the economy, under draft legislation released today by the government.

• Intel discloses three more chip flaws

  Intel has disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.

• What are microservices?

  The origin of the term 'microservices' may not be that easy to pin down, but over the past decade the approach to application development and management has reached near ubiquity in the enterprise, with everyone from Spotify to the BBC shifting from monolithic architectures to embrace microservices.

• What is DHCP, and why might its days may be numbered as IPv6 grows?

  Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) still assigns dynamic addresses for IPv4 networks, but two newer protocols – SLAAC and DHCPv6 – are vying to do the job for IPv6.

• ‘Cyber credit score’ service aims to help enterprises reduce risk

  A new service from Australian research and consultancy firm Security in Depth aims to help enterprises minimise risk through a new ‘credit score’-style rating that assesses the security maturity of suppliers that integrate with their systems.

• Labor pushes My Health Record inquiry

  Labor says it will seek crossbench support for a Senate inquiry into the rollout of the My Health Record system.

• Optus scores $6m Department of Health contract

  Optus Business has been appointed whole-of-department telecommunications provider for the Department of Health.

• Encryption: Has the government stuck to its ‘no backdoors’ pledge?

  The government this morning unveiled an exposure draft of its much-anticipated legislative response to the increased use of encrypted communications services.

• New law to force tech companies to build features for police

  Companies that provide communications services to Australians could be compelled to build new capabilities to help law enforcement agencies access information about how their services are being used, under a draft bill released today by the government.

• Vue JavaScript CLI tool apps gets a rewrite

  Vue 3 is intended to reduce configuration “fatigue” of front-end tools

• Government hasn’t given up on ‘re-identification’ bill

  The federal government has not given up on passing legislation to criminalise the re-identification of Commonwealth datasets but says it is considering amendments in the wake of opposition from security researchers as well as Labor and the Greens.