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• Bitfinex chief strategy officer departs

  22-06-2018 22:50
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitfinex Chief Strategy Officer Phil Potter is leaving the cryptocurrency trading platform, the executive and the exchange told Reuters on Friday.
  
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• Tesla recycling machine catches fire at Fremont, California campus

  22-06-2018 21:52
  (Reuters) - A machine used for paper recycling caught fire Thursday night at Tesla Inc'sFremont, California, campus, outside the company's car production factory, but manufacturing was not affected, the company said.
  
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• Supreme Court restricts police on cellphone location data

  22-06-2018 20:57
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday imposed limits on the ability of police to obtain cellphone data pinpointing the past location of criminal suspects in a major victory for digital privacy advocates and a setback for law enforcement authorities.
  
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• Uber car's 'safety' driver streamed TV show before fatal crash: police

  22-06-2018 19:07
  SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber car in Tempe, Arizona, was streaming a television show on her phone until about the time of a fatal crash, according to a police report that deemed the March 18 incident "entirely avoidable."
  
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• Oracle now requires a subscription to use Java SE

  22-06-2018 12:00
  One-time licenses won’t be available for Java SE 8 or later, but separate support contracts also go away
  
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• Japan watchdog orders improvements at cryptocurrency exchanges

  22-06-2018 09:50
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator said on Friday it has ordered cryptocurrency exchanges including bitFlyer, Inc., one of the country's biggest, to make improvements to lax measures on money laundering.
  
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• Optus avoids repeat of World Cup woes

  22-06-2018 08:08
  Optus says that its efforts to re-architect and boost the resilience of its sports streaming service have paid off, with last night’s matches not suffering the widespread buffering and freezing problems that previously dogged the streaming service’s web-cast of the FIFA World Cup.
  
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• Taiwan's Foxconn calls Sino-U.S. trade spat a 'tech war'

  22-06-2018 07:35
  TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, on Friday said the U.S. and Chinese governments are engaged in a technology war, not a trade war, describing the spat as the biggest challenge the Taiwanese company is facing.
  
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• New rule to stop households being left without broadband during NBN transition

  22-06-2018 05:23
  New rules introduced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) are designed to stop households being left without any access to telecommunications services when there are hiccups during their migration to the National Broadband Network.
  
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• Australia crashes out of (robot) soccer world cup

  22-06-2018 05:12
  While Australia’s flesh and blood soccer team retains a slim hope of reaching the final of the FIFA World Cup in Russia, that dream is sadly over for their robotic counterparts that competed in Montreal this week.
  
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• DTA appoints new chief

  22-06-2018 03:13
  ​The CEO of the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) Gavin Slater is departing from the role next week.
  
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• Intel CEO resigns after probe of relationship with employee

  22-06-2018 01:02
  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned after a probe found a consensual relationship with an employee violated company policy.
  
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• An introduction to containers and microservices for enterprise leaders

  22-06-2018 00:00
  Containers currently make up about 19 percent of hybrid cloud production workloads today, but in just two years’ time this will increase to around 33 percent. In particular, microservices are being increasingly employed in the finance sector, with NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn recently saying they are “resilient, reusable, flexible and proven”.
  
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