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• Macron tells global tech CEOs: 'There is no free lunch'

  23-05-2018 23:05
  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron told executives from the world's biggest technology firms that he believed in innovation but that he wanted tougher regulations and for them to contribute more to society.
  
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• Uber trims losses and grows business, plans new stock sale

  23-05-2018 22:45
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber cut its losses almost in half and its ride bookings jumped 51 percent since one year ago, the Silicon Valley ride-services firm said on Wednesday, showing that months of scandal and retreating from overseas markets has not slowed its business.
  
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• Tesla shares seen rising despite 'fever pitch' of bad news: analyst

  23-05-2018 22:44
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Negative news stories about Tesla Inc have hit "fever pitch", but the electric carmaker's stock price is likely to surge as output of its Model 3 sedan improves, according to an analyst research report.
  
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• Facebook suggests no compensation for European users affected by data breach

  23-05-2018 22:37
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook is unlikely to compensate the 2.7 million European users whose data was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica because sensitive bank account data had not been shared, the company said on Wednesday.
  
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• Hackers infect more than 500,000 devices as malicious attack looms

  23-05-2018 22:15
  Cisco has warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with sophisticated malicious software.
  
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• Hackers infect more than 500,000 Cisco devices as malicious attack looms

  23-05-2018 22:15
  Cisco has warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with sophisticated malicious software.
  
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• Uber ends Arizona self-driving program following fatality

  23-05-2018 21:53
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday.
  
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• Micronaut framework promises low-overhead microservices

  23-05-2018 21:50
  The open source JVM-based framework promises to reduce runtime overhead, memory usage
  
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• Cyber researchers, Ukraine warn of possible Russian attack

  23-05-2018 19:18
  TORONTO/KIEV (Reuters) - Hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries, some of the world's biggest cyber security firms warned on Wednesday, in a campaign that Ukraine said was preparation for a future Russian cyber attack.
  
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• Italy to auction 5G frequencies by end-September

  23-05-2018 19:03
  MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's communications regulator AGCOM said on Wednesday the government would auction frequencies for fifth-generation mobile services in September, in a move it expects to raise at least 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) for state coffers.
  
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• Facebook users unite! 'Data Labour Union' launches in Netherlands

  23-05-2018 18:39
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Activists in Amsterdam on Wednesday launched the 'Datavakbond' or "data labor union", which hopes to elect leaders to negotiate directly with Facebook and Google over what they do with users' data.
  
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• Sundrop farms in SA looks for new investors in greenhouse technology - The Advertiser

  23-05-2018 16:32 via adelaidenow.com.au
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  Sundrop farms in SA looks for new investors in greenhouse technology
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  SUNDROP Farms is looking for potential investors in expanding to new projects after launching a 20ha glass greenhouse at Port Augusta in 2016 that it claims is the largest development of its kind in Australia. The group said its development has ...
  
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• Tesla Model 3 registrations zip past rivals in California

  23-05-2018 14:20
  (Reuters) - Tesla Inc's Model 3 sedan recorded more registrations in California than its class rivals BMW 3-Series and Mercedes C-Class in the first quarter, according to a report by the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Model 3 registrations totaled 3,723, or 14.3 percent of the near-luxury segment, compared with 3,323 for the Mercedes variant and 3,260 for the BMW model, the CNCDA report said.
  
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• Can technology and 'max fac' solve the Irish border question? Expert explains - The Conversation UK

  23-05-2018 11:50 via theconversation.com
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  Can technology and 'max fac' solve the Irish border question? Expert explains
  The Conversation UK
  How might the UK “take back control” of its borders without making the border in Ireland any harder. One proposal on the table is maximum facilitation (max fac). This approach does not avoid the creation of a customs border between Northern Ireland and ...
  
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• Mobile payment firms struggle to dethrone cash in Southeast Asia

  23-05-2018 08:59
  SINGAPORE/HANOI (Reuters) - Bui Mai Phuong is an avid online shopper, ordering anything from clothing to personal-care products from her smartphone. But she prefers to pay with cash.
  
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• Vodafone doesn’t fear fallout from Telstra ‘unlimited’ ruling

  23-05-2018 06:32
  Vodafone has indicated that it doesn’t expect any impact from a Federal Court ruling that a Telstra advertising campaign had the potential to mislead consumers.
  
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• Former IBM Australia MD to chair govt data standards body

  23-05-2018 06:11
  Andrew Stevens, the former managing director of IBM Australia, has been appointed interim chair of the Data Standards Body for the Consumer Data Right.
  
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• Telstra found to have misled with ‘unlimited’ ads

  23-05-2018 03:04
  A Federal Court judge has found that Telstra ads that use the term “unlimited” “falsely convey the representation that Telstra offers a mobile product or service that is unlimited”.
  
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• Trump raises idea of ZTE fine, management shakeup

  23-05-2018 02:27
  ​U.S. President Donald Trump has floated a plan to fine ZTE and shake up its management as his administration considers rolling back more severe penalties that have crippled the Chinese telecommunications company.
  
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• Optus slapped with $1.5 million fine over NBN migration

  23-05-2018 01:58
  Optus has been ordered to pay $1.5 million over misleading 14,649 of its customers with hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) services about migration to the National Broadband Network.
  
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• Chipmakers back Openstack-linked Kata containers project

  23-05-2018 01:26
  In December 2017, the Openstack Foundation announced its intention to create a new type of container with security as a main differentiator. Today, Kata 1.0 is officially out, with the backing of 40-plus partners and cross-industry support from heavy hitters in the chip industry: Intel, ARM, and AMD.
  
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• Slack adds Actions feature, highlights dev community growth

  23-05-2018 00:59
  As the company’s first developer conference, Spec, kicked off in San Francisco, Slack stressed efforts to integrate its software with third-party apps.
  
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