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• Capital One customer data breach rattles investors

  30-07-2019 23:52
  Capital One Financial Corp'sassurances that a major data breach would have a limited impact on customers or profit failed to convince investors on Tuesday, with the bank's shares closing down 5.9%.
  
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• Google's Chrome 76 arrives, blocking Flash in its entirety and stealthing incognito mode

  30-07-2019 23:43
  Google's Chrome 76 begins shipping to users, taking the next step toward killing Flash and allowing incognito mode to be even stealthier.
  
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• Akamai raises forecast on cloud security, content delivery demand

  30-07-2019 23:39
  Akamai Technologies Inc beat Wall Street's estimates for second-quarter results and raised full-year forecast on Tuesday, boosted by strong demand for its cloud security services and growth in its traditional business of speeding up media content delivery through the web.
  
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• Capital One is sued over data breach in proposed class action

  30-07-2019 23:37
  Capital One Financial Corpwas sued on Tuesday after the bank said a hacker who has since been arrested accessed personal information belonging to about 106 million people in the United States and Canada.
  
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• 'Five Eyes' security alliance calls for access to encrypted material

  30-07-2019 23:02
  The US-led "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance said on Tuesday that tech firms must allow law enforcement agencies access to encrypted material, warning that failing to do so puts people at risk.​
  
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• Oh Snap: U.S. senator proposes bill to ban Snapchat 'Snapstreaks'

  30-07-2019 22:40
  A bill introduced by a U.S. senator on Tuesday aims to curb overuse of social media by banning Snapchat's Snapstreak feature, which encourages users to send photos on the app at least once every 24 hours.
  
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• IoT roundup: Connected cows, food safety sensors and tracking rent-a-bikes

  30-07-2019 21:32
  Farmers use LoRaWAN wireless with internet of things devices that monitor the health and location of beef cattle, and restaurant chains use it to network IoT sensors that signal temperature shifts in commercialrefrigerators.
  
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• NASA Announces Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology - NASA Planetary Science

  30-07-2019 21:17 via nasa.gov
  NASA Announces Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology  NASA Planetary ScienceAs NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies, working toward ...
  
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• Google Cloud to offer VMware data centre tools natively

  30-07-2019 20:51
  Google is enlisting VMware and CloudSimple to serve up vSphere, NSXand vSAN software on Google Cloud to transition enterprise workloads.
  
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• Google Cloud to offer VMware data-center tools natively

  30-07-2019 20:51
  Google is enlisting VMware and CloudSimple to serve up vSphere, NSXand vSAN software on Google Cloud to make ease the transition of enterprise workloads to the cloud.
  
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• The US-China-Israel Technology Triangle - Council on Foreign Relations

  30-07-2019 17:17 via cfr.org
  The US-China-Israel Technology Triangle  Council on Foreign RelationsSince the 1980s, Israel has had robust technological cooperation and trade with the U.S. while often, in deference to U.S. security concerns, limiting the sale of ...
  
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• Researchers Develop Technology To Harness Energy From Mixing Of Freshwater And Seawater - Forbes

  30-07-2019 16:50 via forbes.com
  Researchers Develop Technology To Harness Energy From Mixing Of Freshwater And Seawater  ForbesResearchers from Stanford University in California have developed an affordable, durable technology that could harness energy generated from mixing ...
  
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• Orica harvests Calderon's technology hunch - The Australian Financial Review

  30-07-2019 16:00 via afr.com
  Orica harvests Calderon's technology hunch  The Australian Financial ReviewIan Smith's time at Orica may have ended in largely self-inflicted ignominy, but the foundations of a technological revolution he laid through his excessive, robust ...
  
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• Ditch CVC charges and slash wholesale prices, Telstra urges NBN Co

  30-07-2019 12:38
  Telstra has used NBN Co’s wholesale pricing review to urge the network operator to dump its current pricing structure that involves retail service providers (RSPs) paying access (AVC) and capacity (CVC) charges.
  
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• Vodafone closes in on 5G vendor, seeks early access to spectrum

  30-07-2019 08:04
  Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) remains “fully committed” to a proposed merger with TPG, according to the telco’s CEO, Iñaki Berroeta. A merger would help Vodafone “fast track” the roll out of 5G technology, he today told a half-year results briefing.
  
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• NSW Electoral Commission invites scrutiny of iVote source code

  30-07-2019 06:34
  The NSW Electoral Commission has launched a program that will offer security researchers access to the source code used for online voting during the 2019 NSW state election.
  
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• In pictures: Roundtable - How to ‘thrive’ - and 'survive' - in world of IT disruption and unlock your data capital: Sydney

  30-07-2019 04:06
  Organisations that are ‘thriving’ in today’s fast-paced ‘data-driven world’ are the ones that are turning the influx of data into competitive differentiation. There’s an explosion of data being generated that must be moved, stored, protected and analysed - and then leveraged and capitalised on. Tech leaders gathered for an exclusive Computerworld roundtable luncheon at Aria - sponsored by Dell EMC - to discuss how companies can thrive in the ‘age of data
  
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• AWS generated almost half of all IaaS revenue in 2018

  30-07-2019 03:19
  ​The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.
  
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• Capital One: hacker gained access to personal information of over 100 million Americans

  30-07-2019 01:34
  Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday the personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of about 100 million individuals in the United States were obtained by a hacker who has now been arrested.
  
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• Companies using Facebook 'Like' button liable for data - EU court

  30-07-2019 00:59
  Companies that embed Facebook's "Like" button on their websites must seek users' consent to transfer their personal data to the U.S. social network, in line with the bloc's data privacy laws, Europe's top court said on Monday.
  
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