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• NT government plans $1m boost to IT industry

  11-10-2018 21:30
  The Northern Territory government has announced a Digital Partnerships grant program as one of the key initiatives in the NT’s first-ever digital strategy.
  
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• Microsoft cautiously restarts Windows 10 1809 upgrade distribution

  11-10-2018 21:03
  The rollout was halted after a bug wiped out some users' files; Microsoft ackowledged that the lost data may not be recoverable.
  
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• Puppet builds project and vulnerability assessment tools for devops

  11-10-2018 12:00
  The beta tools are designed to help assess devops results and automate security remediations
  
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• Is there a white-box server in your data center’s future?

  11-10-2018 12:00
  The stagnant server market is heating up as 'white box' server vendors grab an increasing share of the cloud business. Enterprises have been reluctant to follow the lead of hyperscale data center vendors to off-brand server competitors, largely due to a lack of enterprise-grade service and maintenance options. But the economics are compelling.
  
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• SEC, Tesla support approval of settlement

  11-10-2018 11:46
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla Incand Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk submitted a joint filing late on Wednesday in support of a settlement, saying the terms were in the best interest of investors.
  
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• Apple gets critical iPhone technology in $600 million Dialog deal

  11-10-2018 11:37
  Apple Inc is buying the power-management technology at the heart of its iPhones in a $600 million deal with Dialog Semiconductorthat also secures the German-listed company's role as a supplier to the U.S. tech giant.
  
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• VW's Skoda deliveries drop 16 percent in September as WLTP rules start

  11-10-2018 11:33
  Deliveries of Skoda Auto cars, part of the Volkswagengroup, dropped 16 percent in September, largely in European markets due to conversions to conform to the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test (WLTP) anti-pollution rules.
  
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• Exclusive: Reverse gear - China car dealers push for tax cut as auto growth stalls

  11-10-2018 11:00
  China's top auto dealers' association has asked the government to halve taxes on car purchases to revive faltering sales, sources said, as worries grow the country's auto market could shrink this year for the first time in decades.
  
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• Ubisoft shares rise to beat market sell-off after good sales for video game

  11-10-2018 10:02
  Shares in French video games maker Ubisoft rose by around 1 percent on Thursday, making them one of the few stocks to rise despite a broader market sell-off, after Ubisoft announced good sales for its latest 'Assassin's Creed' game.
  
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• German coalition parties spat over diesel car fines

  11-10-2018 09:15
  Ministers from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives attacked on Thursday a proposal by the Social Democrats to fine carmakers who fail to offer diesel hardware retrofits, opening a new battle front in their fragile coalition government.
  
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• China's Alipay says stolen Apple IDs behind thefts of users' money

  11-10-2018 09:15
  Ant Financial's Alipay, the operator of one of China's top two mobile payment apps, said hackers have taken an unknown amount of money from accounts using stolen Apple Inc IDs and the issue remains unresolved despite reaching out to the U.S. giant.
  
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• Telstra seeks to head off executive pay protest

  11-10-2018 07:35
  Telstra has written an apology to shareholders to head off a vote against executive pay at its annual meeting, after a tumultuous year where profit fell and shares hovered near all-time lows.
  
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• Reuters Top 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities - 2018

  11-10-2018 06:27
  For the fourth year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
  
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• Getting the most from managed SD-WAN services

  11-10-2018 06:06
  Enterprise network leaders face enormous challenges adapting and changing their managed WAN services to meet constantly changing business needs for new applications, new offices, more users, cloud services and digital business. All while they are asked to reduce their WAN expenses.
  
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• PEXA rolls out MFA, anomaly detection for security boost

  11-10-2018 04:03
  PEXA has completed the roll out of mandatory multifactor authentication for the 20,000 property industry practitioners that are registered to use its platform.
  
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• What lies beneath: CSIRO robots rise to DARPA’s subterranean challenge

  11-10-2018 02:20
  Dark and disorientating, prone to rockfalls and flooding, and often filled with toxic gases: caves are not a safe place for humans. So why not send robots instead?
  
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• Data privacy rules spoiling fintech boom, says industry group

  11-10-2018 02:03
  Data privacy rules in Asia are limiting the spread of financial technology, an industry body said on Thursday, calling on regulators to set out broad principles rather than precise rules.
  
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• Trade Ledger rides the open banking wave

  11-10-2018 00:40
  The banking sector is in the midst of its greatest technology-driven transformation since the introduction of the ATM, according to the chief executive of Trade Ledger Martin McCann.
  
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• Exclusive: Mitek rebuffs Elliott-backed ASG's takeover approach - sources

  11-10-2018 00:07
  Mitek Systems Inc, a U.S. provider of financial technology to banks, has rejected a takeover approach from hedge fund Elliott Management Corp's software company ASG Technologies, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
  
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• Micron plans US$100 million AI investment splurge

  11-10-2018 00:00
  Micron Technology plans to invest up to US$100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.
  
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• Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

  11-10-2018 00:00
  Amazon.com Inc'smachine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
  
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