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• Telstra payments wipe out NBN first half EBITDA gains

  10-02-2020 23:42 via zdnet.com
  
  EBITDA drops by 40% as payments to telcos ratchet up to almost AU$1.5 billion in the six months to December 31.
  
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• Adobe launches Experience Platform out of Azure in Australia

  10-02-2020 23:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The move allows Australian businesses to keep customer information on-shore.
  
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• Amazon demands Trump testify about the JEDI contract

  10-02-2020 22:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Amazon is attempting to depose President Donald Trump and others over the US government's award the $10-billion dollar JEDI cloud to Microsoft Azure over AWS.
  
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• AI on steroids: Much bigger neural nets to come with new hardware, say Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

  10-02-2020 21:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Novel hardware to accelerate training and inference of neural nets can lead to much larger models, perhaps someday making possible the trillion-synapse neural net, say deep learning creators Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun. Also important is the impending revolution in robotics.
  
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• With no brand license, Blackberry Mobile fades to black

  10-02-2020 21:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Blackberry's termination of its brand license to TCL raises questions about what led to the split and whether this is truly the end of a once-dominant phone brand.
  
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• Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26 million Danish citizens

  10-02-2020 21:17 via zdnet.com
  
  Danish tax portal accidentally shares tax payer identification numbers with Google and Adobe analytics services.
  
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• RCS: What's next for mobile messaging

  10-02-2020 18:45 via zdnet.com
  
  RCS could accelerate convergence of notifications and conversations.
  
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• Razr burn: Motorola needs to flip back after its flawed brand reboot

  10-02-2020 18:41 via zdnet.com
  
  The modern incarnation of the seminal flip phone makes too many compromises in the name of nostalgia. But the Razr brand could become an asset even as its latest comeback folds.
  
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• We are still playing catch up with AI, and it's a dangerous game

  10-02-2020 18:40 via zdnet.com
  
  The public sector is using artificial intelligence for high-impact decisions, but is it doing so safely? Not safely enough, according to a new report.
  
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• South Korea's government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop

  10-02-2020 17:25 via zdnet.com
  
  In what may prove to be the biggest migration from Windows to the Linux desktop, the South Korean government is looking into shifting from Windows 7 to a trio of Linux desktops.
  
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• Man who helped the Queen send her first email dies

  10-02-2020 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Computer scientist Peter Kirstein guided the Queen into the internet era - in 1976.
  
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• DOJ charges four Chinese military hackers for Equifax hack

  10-02-2020 16:19 via zdnet.com
  
  DOJ said the hackers stole data on Americans and Equifax's intellectual property.
  
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• Parasite aside, the 2020 Oscars were completely baffling

  10-02-2020 15:43
  
  There was no host, and someone let James Cordon and Rebel Wilson don costumes of their characters from Cats
  
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• NexDock 2 hands-on: Work anywhere with your Samsung smartphone

  10-02-2020 15:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Working anywhere and at any time is the focus of Samsung DeX on a Galaxy phone. However, that experience requires an external display, keyboard, and mouse. Thankfully, the NexDock 2 gets us closer to the reality of having a secure, single device power all of our computing experiences.
  
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• Do you know the difference between Thunderbolt 3, USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, and USB-C 3.1 Gen 1?

  10-02-2020 15:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Don't worry of you don't, because you're not alone.
  
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• West Africa's first drone corridor has opened in Njala

  10-02-2020 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Africa's first drone corridor, in Njala, could transform Sierra Leone's healthcare.
  
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• Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, LeCun say the field can fix its flaws

  10-02-2020 15:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun took the stage in Manhattan at an AI conference to present a united front about how deep learning can move past obstacles like adversarial examples and maybe even gain common sense.
  
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• Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun say the field can fix its flaws

  10-02-2020 15:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun took the stage in Manhattan at an AI conference to present a united front about how deep learning can move past obstacles like adversarial examples and maybe even gain common sense.
  
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• Windows 10 Start Menu now touts Edge to Firefox users

  10-02-2020 14:43 via zdnet.com
  
  New Windows 10 Start Menu ads tempt Firefox users to give the Chromium-based Edge a spin.
  
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• Now that Windows 7 support has ended, your business has four options

  10-02-2020 14:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's support of Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. What you choose to do nowdepends on why your organization is still clinging to Windows 7.
  
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• Stratasys launches J826 mid-range 3D printer

  10-02-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Stratasys' J826 aims to lower the cost of creating quality prototypes from designers.
  
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• Bill Gates 'not buying our hydrogen yacht'

  10-02-2020 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm behind a concept hydrogen-powered luxury yacht says reports of Mr Gates' order are incorrect.
  
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• Altsbit plans exit after hack leaves cryptocurrency exchange out of pocket

  10-02-2020 13:46 via zdnet.com
  
  Only a token amount of cryptocurrency was kept safe in cold wallets.
  
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• Tesla yanks Autopilot features from used car because 'they weren't paid for'

  10-02-2020 13:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Should Tesla be allowed to remove features from a vehicle that's bought secondhand?
  
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• Nano Comes to Life, book review: Small steps towards a giant leap

  10-02-2020 12:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Oxford academic Sonia Contera explores developments in nanotechnology that might finally deliver the long-held dream of much better cures and more personalised medicine.
  
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• Mous Limitless 3.0: An iPhone case with a nifty hidden feature

  10-02-2020 12:56 via zdnet.com
  
  It's rare that an iPhone case stands out from the competition, The Mous Limitless does just that.
  
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• Galaxy Z Flip: Samsung reveals its new phone during the Oscars

  10-02-2020 12:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Samsung teases the Galaxy Z Flip phone ahead of its official launch this week.
  
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• Lock My PC takes on tech scammers with free recovery key offering, software withdrawal

  10-02-2020 12:04 via zdnet.com
  
  The legitimate software is being abused by scammers seeking to exhort payment from victims.
  
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• Robot blocks leap, roll and climb to work together

  10-02-2020 09:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers at MIT have developed robots that can self-assemble to form various structures.
  
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• How Monzo’s customers triggered a troublesome identity crisis

  10-02-2020 07:00
  
  Monzo customers were the reason for the challenger bank's meteoric rise in the UK. But they also almost broke it
  
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• Forget prisons, the future of punishment will be virtual

  10-02-2020 07:00
  
  Physical jails don't work. Will virtual punishment succeed in replacing them – or will it just create more risks?
  
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• Democracy tech will be the next hot investment space

  10-02-2020 07:00
  
  First came Silicon Valley, Alley and Roundabout. Now, democracy technology is getting a home too
  
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• Boeing's colossal 777X is unlike any plane that's gone before

  10-02-2020 07:00
  
  The aircraft has folding winds and an engine that's been designed to generate 100,000lbs of thrust – more than America's first manned space flight
  
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• Shorten says Centrelink is increasingly targeting vulnerable Australians

  10-02-2020 04:33 via zdnet.com
  
  The former opposition leader has called the robo-debt program 'faulty', 'illegal', and a 'scam'.
  
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• Anti-corruption and police integrity bodies reject call to reduce data retention period

  10-02-2020 02:17 via zdnet.com
  
  The NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission was joined by the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement in asking for the minimum two-year period for retaining telco data be kept under the country's data retention regime.
  
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• MWC bans attendees from Hubei as Ericsson and Nvidia join exhibitor exodus

  10-02-2020 01:19 via zdnet.com
  
  Mobile World Congress will implement temperature screening and demand proof that those who have visited China have been out of the Middle Kingdom for at least 14 days.
  
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• Netanyahu's party exposes data on over 6.4 million Israelis

  10-02-2020 01:18 via zdnet.com
  
  The app's website exposed a link to an API endpoint that was left without a password, allowing third-parties to obtain passwords for admin accounts.
  
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• ‘I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site’

  10-02-2020 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When Rose Kalemba was raped, it took her months to persuade a porn website to remove the video.
  
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• 'I remember the roaches walking across the floor'

  10-02-2020 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When Rob Bernshteyn and his family escaped the Soviet Union, they initially found the US was worse.
  
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• Audit finds Queensland's SPER reform program led to AU$18m budget blowout

  10-02-2020 00:44 via zdnet.com
  
  The project was labelled as 'not effective from inception'.
  
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• IoT security: Five things to change to make your smart devices really secure

  10-02-2020 00:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Big tech doesn't have to make all the rules; here are five things we should demand from all our gadgets, or else we risk losing all our privacy.
  
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