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• New HPC facility launched at NZ’s NIWA

  07-11-2018 23:35
  Research, science and innovation minister Dr Megan Woods has officially opened New Zealand’s High Performance Computing Facility at NIWA’s campus in Wellington, 17 months after the government announced plans to invest in the facility.
  
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• Facebook, Google tools reveal political ad removal data

  07-11-2018 22:47
  Public databases that shine a light on online political ads - launched by Facebook and Google before Tuesday's U.S. elections - offer the public the first broad view of how quickly the companies yank advertisements that break their rules.
  
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• IP Australia eyes APIs to build ‘digital marketplaces’

  07-11-2018 20:30
  IP Australia's digital transformation program has helped cut contact centre costs by two-thirds, and some 38 per cent of enquiries are now deal with by virtual assistants.
  
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• Lloyds Bank to create 2,000 new digital roles

  07-11-2018 19:40
  Lloyds has announced that it is cutting 6,000 traditional roles but creating 8,000 digital roles to offer customers a greater range of digital services.
  
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• How to make the business case for SD-WAN

  07-11-2018 12:00
  Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard and soft savings. Hard savings come from new connectivity contracts, including reduction in the use of MPLS in favor of less expensive options, such as broadband or cellular. Soft savings come from ensuring quality of service connections to cloud platforms or other hosted applications; centrally managing and ensuring comprehensive security across the WAN; ensuring high availability connections to WAN sites; and ease of management related to u
  
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• Airservices Australia ready to host classified data in cloud

  07-11-2018 03:48
  Airservices Australia is getting to ready to potentially house a range of sensitive data in its cloud environment as a result of its partnership with the Department of the Defence for the OneSKY Australia.
  
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• APRA issues new cyber security standard for banks

  07-11-2018 01:26
  The boards of banks and other entities regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority are ultimately responsible for an organisation’s information security, states a new standard released today by APRA.
  
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• Hyundai raises Southeast Asia bet with second investment in Grab

  07-11-2018 01:05
  Hyundai Motor Co has raised its stakes in growing Southeast Asian markets with a $250 million investment in Singapore's Grab, its second in the ride-hailing firm, as it chases rivals in the race for new-age transportation.
  
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• Insurers to be banned from accessing de-identified My Health Record data

  07-11-2018 00:15
  The government plans to make a range of additional changes to the legislation governing the My Health Record system to help assuage privacy concerns, including banning insurers from participating in the ‘secondary use’ framework for access to de-identified data.
  
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• China's ties with Taiwan chip firms under scrutiny as U.S. trade war heats up

  07-11-2018 00:09
  Washington's decision to cut off U.S. supplies to a Chinese chip-maker spotlights mounting tensions over China's drive to be a global player in computer chips and the ways in which Taiwan companies are helping it get there.
  
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