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• Two Trend Micro zero-days exploited in the wild by hackers

  17-03-2020 23:53 via zdnet.com
  
  Patches for both zero-days were released on Monday, along with fixes for three other similarly critical vulnerabilities.
  
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• Industry body labels Australia's R&D tax incentive Bill as 'unduly diluted'

  17-03-2020 23:51 via zdnet.com
  The AIIA has argued the Bill could see Australian-based IT companies send R&D activities overseas or abandon them altogether.
  
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• COVID-19: How the enterprise is adapting to disruption

  17-03-2020 23:12 via zdnet.com
  
  From cancelled tech conferences and disrupted supply chains to telecommuting and cybersecurity threats, the enterprise faces a new normal as COVID-19's impact escalates.
  
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• NBN to skip TCP/IP overprovisioning for 1Gbps plans

  17-03-2020 23:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Other plans to receive up to 15% overhead to cater for higher layers of TCP/IP stack.
  
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• MongoDB beats Q4 estimates, includes COVID-19 impact in Q1 outlook

  17-03-2020 21:37 via zdnet.com
  
  The database platform also announced that co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz is stepping down and will serve as a technical adviser.
  
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• GitHub for mobile is generally available

  17-03-2020 21:36 via zdnet.com
  
  With the app, developers can handle tasks like managing incoming notifications, reviewing code, merging pull requests, and sharing feedback.
  
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• Best smart displays in 2020: Echo Show, Nest Hub, Facebook Portal, and more

  17-03-2020 21:16 via zdnet.com
  
  We've hand-picked 11 smart displays that will satisfy a range of wants and needs.
  
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• Need to build a high-performance private cloud? You need the QNAP TVS-1282T3 Thunderbolt 3 NAS

  17-03-2020 20:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Some of you need to build a high-performance NAS box to create a super-speedy private cloud. NAS boxes don't get much faster than the QNAP TVS-1282T3 Thunderbolt 3 NAS.
  
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• Best security keys in 2020: Hardware-based two-factor authentication for online protection

  17-03-2020 19:03 via zdnet.com
  
  While robust passwords go a long way to securing your valuable online accounts, hardware-based two-factor authentication takes that security to the next level.
  
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• Nokia adds 5G capabilities to its IoT Network Grid service

  17-03-2020 19:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Nokia has also opened a 5G WING lab in Dallas, Texas, where operators from around the globe can connect and test 5G IoT use cases.
  
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• Intel is teaching a computer chip to smell

  17-03-2020 18:16 via zdnet.com
  
  The company says it has built an algorithm that mimics the brain's activity to detect and identify different smells.
  
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• Tech tips and tricks to cope with coronavirus social isolation measures

  17-03-2020 18:00 via zdnet.com
  
  From maintaining your friendships to helping out the elderly, technology can help.
  
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• Graph theory suggests COVID-19 might be a ‘small world’ after all

  17-03-2020 17:44 via zdnet.com
  
  The media regularly refers to "exponential" growth in the number of cases of COVID-19 respiratory disease, and deaths from the disease, but the numbers suggest something else, a "small world" network that might have power law properties. That would be meaningfully different from the exponential growth path for the disease.
  
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• Google: Try out this AI Transcribe feature now rolling out to Google Translate

  17-03-2020 17:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Android users can use the audio-to-text translation service today, but iPhone owners will need to wait.
  
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• WordPress and Apache Struts account for 55% of all weaponized vulnerabilities

  17-03-2020 17:13 via zdnet.com
  
  Comprehensive study looks at the most attacked web technologies of the last decade.
  
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• HP ZBook 17 G6 review: A heavy-duty, user-upgradable mobile workstation

  17-03-2020 16:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Creative professionals requiring serious computing power should check out HP's ZBook 17 G6. But don't expect to carry it far, or the battery to last all day.
  
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• Combat in the cloud: Securing the $10 billion JEDI contract

  17-03-2020 15:32 via zdnet.com
  
  The Pentagon awarded a cloud-computing contract worth $10 billion to Microsoft that Amazon plans to contest.
  
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• Microsoft to Windows developers: This is why you should use upcoming WinUI 3 release

  17-03-2020 15:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft prepares developers to adopt its modern WinUI user interface platform.
  
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• How open-source software is tackling COVID-19 coronavirus

  17-03-2020 14:51 via zdnet.com
  
  Many open-source projects are taking on the challenge of conquering COVID-19.
  
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• iOS 14 points to new iPhones and iPads - but will Apple release them under the cloud of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic?

  17-03-2020 14:10 via zdnet.com
  
  The iOS 14 code suggests that Apple has new 5.5-inch entry-level iPhone and updated iPad Pros in the pipeline. But will they launch any time soon?
  
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• Coronavirus: How easy it for the UK to make more ventilators?

  17-03-2020 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts question whether it is possible to make thousands more respirators in the UK in the short-term.
  
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• Financial companies leak 425GB in company, client data through open database

  17-03-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Half a million confidential legal and financial documents, at least, were exposed online.
  
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• Roundup: Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic delivers array of cybersecurity challenges

  17-03-2020 13:36 via zdnet.com
  
  As the COVID-19 outbreak threatens to overload the healthcare system and the global economy, it's also having a powerful impact on the security of businesses and individuals.
  
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• How the UK’s political machine has shifted to fight coronavirus

  17-03-2020 13:25
  
  Meet the officials working on the UK’s coronavirus action plan
  
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• Microsoft: .NET 5 preview for Windows 10, iPhone, Android Surface Duo apps is out

  17-03-2020 13:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft declares .NET 5 the future of .NET development.
  
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• The science behind the big shift in the UK's coronavirus strategy

  17-03-2020 13:08
  
  The UK's coronavirus response has shifted up a gear, partly thanks to an analysis showing that mitigating the virus would still lead to 250,000 deaths
  
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• Medical robots pick up the slack in overloaded hospitals

  17-03-2020 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  As the pandemic pushes health systems to the brink, robots are emerging as important tools.
  
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• How North American airlines are responding to COVID-19 travel bans

  17-03-2020 07:21 via zdnet.com
  
  What airlines are doing to help passengers and their businesses.
  
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• World of Warcraft perfectly predicted our coronavirus panic

  17-03-2020 07:00
  
  An accidental pandemic in the online game offers a valuable insight into the way people are behaving during the coronavirus crisis
  
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• Can’t get your head around how big coronavirus is? Look at flight data

  17-03-2020 07:00
  
  In the heart of quarantine zones, just seven per cent of scheduled flights were taking off. Now, planes are completely grounded
  
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• Cisco Live becomes latest conference to go digital due to coronavirus

  17-03-2020 05:17 via zdnet.com
  
  Company said announcement will come as 'no surprise'. They were right.
  
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• Australia's hospitality sector goes contactless to reduce COVID-19 spread

  17-03-2020 04:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Many have started to accept cashless payments or online orders only.
  
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• Samsung launches 512GB eUFS 3.1 for smartphones

  17-03-2020 03:38 via zdnet.com
  
  The new embedded Universal Flash Storage 3.1 boasts three times faster writing speed than its predecessor.
  
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• Brave accuses Google of using 'hopelessly vague' privacy policies that breach GDPR

  17-03-2020 03:33 via zdnet.com
  
  The Chromium-based browser has also asked for Google to provide a list of the purposes for which Google processes personal data, as well as the relevant legal bases for each purpose.
  
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• Internet's largest social networks issue joint statement on COVID-19 misinformation

  17-03-2020 02:39 via zdnet.com
  
  Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube put out joint statement promising to fight COVID-19 fraud and curb misinformation.
  
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• NBN to limit maintenance during coronavirus network surge

  17-03-2020 01:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Government-owned wholesaler yet to set contingency plans in stone.
  
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• Monzo’s next big move is taking on broken business banking

  17-03-2020 01:01
  
  Monzo is launching its first ever business account to steal big bank's customers. Will it work?
  
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• Reducing brain damage in sport without losing the thrills

  17-03-2020 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sports like NFL and rugby are taking head injuries much more seriously and employing technology to help.
  
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• Amazon to hire 100,000 employees to cope with COVID-19 demand

  17-03-2020 00:59 via zdnet.com
  
  It's also investing $350 million globally to give a slight pay rise to its staff in its fulfilment centres and delivery network.
  
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• Roundup: The coronavirus pandemic delivers an array of cyber-security challenges

  17-03-2020 00:42 via zdnet.com
  
  As the COVID-19 outbreak threatens to overload the healthcare system and the global economy, it's also having a powerful impact on the security of businesses and individuals.
  
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