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• Security researchers call for changes to defence exports regime

  31-05-2018 22:30
  A group of information security researchers has called for changes to Australia’s Defence Trade Controls Act. The group argues that the current DTCA regime can act as a barrier to cryptography research.
  
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• Virtustream joins government’s certified cloud list

  31-05-2018 05:55
  Virtustream is the newest addition to the Australian Signals Directorate’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).
  
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• Dell Virtustream joins government’s certified cloud list

  31-05-2018 05:55
  Dell Virtustream is the newest addition to the Australian Signals Directorate’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).
  
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• Amazon to block Australian customers from accessing US site

  31-05-2018 05:02
  From 1 July Amazon will redirect Australian browsers away from its amazon.com site in response to GST changes introduced by the government.
  
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• ComCom appoints UK provider to monitor NZ broadband

  31-05-2018 04:26
  The Commerce Commission is re-launching its broadband monitoring programme with a new overseas supplier and is looking for 3000 New Zealand households to take part.
  
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• MYOB dumps plan to acquire Reckon’s Accountant Group

  31-05-2018 03:41
  MYOB has dumped it plan to acquire Reckon’s Accountant Group Assets, the ASX-listed software company announced this morning.
  
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• A brief history of Salesforce.com

  31-05-2018 02:15
  The way the story goes is that Marc Benioff was floating in the sea just off Big Island in his beloved Hawaii during a sabbatical when he thought: why can't buying software be as a simple as Amazon is for consumer goods?
  
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• Microsoft Patch Alert: Major bugs introduced in May fixed, plenty of problems remain

  31-05-2018 02:07
  Once more we have a monthly Windows/Office patch scorecard that needs a guidebook. Or two. And we just got a handful of buried warnings about problems in old patches, plus a brand new way to fry your network interface card.
  
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• Optus chalks up second court victory against Telstra

  31-05-2018 02:02
  Telstra has lost its fight to have an Optus ad that takes a pot-shot at Australia’s largest telco deemed misleading.
  
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• Buffett proposed to invest $3 billion in Uber, but talks failed: Bloomberg

  31-05-2018 00:47
  (Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett had proposed to invest $3 billion in Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] earlier this year, but the talks failed following disagreements over the deal's terms, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
  
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• U.S. judge dismisses Kaspersky suits to overturn government ban

  31-05-2018 00:34
  (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab that sought to overturn bans on the use of the security software maker's products in U.S. government networks.
  
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• New York launches drills to thwart election hacking

  31-05-2018 00:14
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal and New York state officials say they will hold drills in the weeks leading up to primary elections for the U.S. House and Senate to prevent hacking and other cyber threats to voting systems, officials said on Wednesday.
  
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