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• Transport ministers prepare for 2020 rollout of autonomous vehicles

  29-05-2018 22:30
  Australia’s transport ministers have agreed to take a uniform legal approach across states and territories to vehicles equipped with automated driving systems.
  
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• Canadian who helped Yahoo email hackers gets five years in prison

  29-05-2018 22:30
  (Reuters) - A Canadian accused of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 data breach at Yahoo was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.
  
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• Data sharing system to cut costs for aviation industry

  29-05-2018 07:28
  Airservices Australia says that the aviation industry will save $52 million thanks to a new information-sharing platform.
  
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• House of Representatives MPs to vote electronically

  29-05-2018 03:42
  Members of parliament’s lower house will be able to vote electronically, the government announced today.
  
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• Optus to slash 400 jobs

  29-05-2018 02:56
  Optus has confirmed plans to cut 400 jobs.
  
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• Former Origin CIO takes top job at Capgemini ANZ

  29-05-2018 02:33
  Former Origin Energy chief information officer Olaf Pietschner has been appointed head of Capgemini in Australia and New Zealand.
  
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• Full speed ahead for NZ’s rural broadband rollout

  29-05-2018 02:05
  The schedule for completing New Zealand's rural broadband programmes has been brought forward a year, and is now due for completion in 2021, communications minister Clare Curran has announced.
  
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• Hackers may have stolen data of 90,000 Canadian bank customers

  29-05-2018 02:00
  Bank of Montrealand Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce have said that cyber attackers may have stolen the data of nearly 90,000 customers in what appeared to be the first significant assault on financial institutions in the country.
  
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• What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

  29-05-2018 01:45
  More CIOs are turning to robotic process automation to eliminate tedious tasks, freeing corporate workers to focus on higher value work. But RPA requires proper design, planning and governance if it's to bolster the business, experts say.
  
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• Open sass: Ubuntu/Red Hat drama erupts at Openstack

  29-05-2018 00:53
  Canonical founder and part-time hobby astronaut Mark Shuttleworth began his Openstack keynote last week by criticising Red Hat for being too expensive.
  
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• How Alaska Airlines got to grips with Chef Habitat

  29-05-2018 00:45
  Alaska Airlines is one of the first enterprise customers to run Chef's new app automation product Habitat. During Chef Conf this week they explained how they got up and running with the product, and some key lessons learned for anyone looking to shift their applications onto Habitat.
  
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