Singtel and its Australian subsidiary Optus have announced making an Australia-to-Singapore 5G augmented reality (AR) video call using technology from Ericsson and Oppo. The call was made using an Oppo prototype device powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem. “AR provides users with a more inclusive form of communication, opening up new possibilities for […]
The top 20 most notorious cyber espionage operations have increased their activity by a third in recent years – and are looking to conduct more attacks, according to a security company. Syndication Source
The Mi 9’s sub-$500 starting price could appeal to Chinese consumers turned off by the $1,000-plus iPhone XS. Syndication Source
The Chief Information Security Officer role has become increasingly important in recent years. But, what are the opportunities for women in this male-dominated field? MUST READ IT security and governance Adversarial AI: Cybersecurity battles are coming AI impact: Rethinking education and job training Defense contractor: IT must embrace radical transparency and culture change As part […]
Featured stories Microsoft is no stranger to open source these days, with the company open-sourcing more and more of its technologies and buying open-source companies. However, one of its next big open-source moves might still surprise some people. Microsoft is moving to adopt formally open-source development methodologies inside the company by going “Inner Source.” Inner […]
Perhaps it doesn’t happen often, but some Apple Geniuses go out of their way to help. Even flouting the rules, it seems. Syndication Source
Hacker is selling 93 million user records from eight companies, including GfyCat. Syndication Source
Non-profit AI research organization OpenAI caused quite a stir by showing off a new deep learning approach that creates some fairly convincing english-language paragraphs, launching a new chapter in the “deep fakes” saga. One has only to read a little more closely to see the cracks that betray the lack of logic and consistency. Syndication […]
The company wants to accelerate local strategy by providing direction to clients as regulatory and compliance requirements increase. Syndication Source
Australian software firm Reckon Group has published its financial results for 2018, reporting AU$7.7 million in after-tax profit, up from the AU$7.4 million after-tax profit achieved in 2017. Special Feature Cloud: How to Do SaaS Right Software as a Service offers irresistible benefits for organizations of all sizes — from cost savings to scalability to […]
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned central European nations that deploying telecommunications equipment from Huawei “makes it more difficult for America to be present” in those countries. “We want to make sure we identify [to] them the opportunities and the risks of using that equipment,” Pompeo told media in Budapest on Monday. […]
Russian authorities and major internet providers are planning to disconnect the country from the internet as part of a planned experiment, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week. More security news The reason for the experiment is to gather insight and provide feedback and modifications to a proposed law introduced in the Russian Parliament […]
The federal government has announced a grant program that will see a total of AU$10 million handed out to non-government organisations (NGOs) to deliver online safety education and training projects targeted at children. A statement from Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding will help arm children with the capability to “stay safe” online. “We […]
One can be forgiven for thinking that everything that is anything IT-related is being absorbed into the cloud. There is immense pressure to make the cloud move. As found in a recent survey of 550 executives conducted by IDG, more than one-third (38%) report their IT departments are under pressure to migrate all applications and infrastructure to […]
A team of academics has revealed a new cryptographic attack this week that can break encrypted TLS traffic, allowing attackers to intercept and steal data previously considered safe & secure. More security news This new downgrade attack –which doesn’t have a fancy name like most cryptography attacks tend to have– works even against the latest […]
The results are in, and chatbots are still remarkably dissatisfying. Researchers at Facebook and Microsoft, and a number of collaborating institutions, last week unveiled the formal write-up of something called the “Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge,” a competition between chatbots that took place during the NeurIPS artificial intelligence conference in Montreal in December. Although the competition […]
