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Biden and Putin spar over cybersecurity, ransomware at Geneva summit
June 17, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

“I looked at him and said: ‘How would you feel if ransomware took on the pipelines from your oil fields?’” Biden reportedly asked Putin.

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14 COVIDSafe enquiries to OAIC, but still no complaints or breaches
June 17, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

The agency’s second six-month report shows there have been no reports of breaches, no complaints made, and no investigations underway regarding the COVIDSafe app that Labor has referred to as a ‘turkey’.

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AI bias and discrimination aplenty: Australian Greens want Online Safety Bill repealed
June 16, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

Australian Greens have put forward an amendment that seeks to withdraw the Bill and have it re-drafted to address its rushed nature.

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Singapore universities to tap $17M for tropical data centre technology
June 16, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University set up SG$23 million ($17.39 million) research fund to develop cooling technologies for data centres operating in tropical locations, with a testbed facility slated to be ready this October.

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Android opens up earthquake alerts and end-to-end encrypted messages
June 16, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

End-to-end encrypted messages to begin rolling out for chats between individual Messages users.

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Singapore e-commerce aggregator eyes interoperability across APAC marketplaces
June 16, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

Apart from acquiring Amazon third-party sellers, Singapore-based Rainforest will look to buy fast-growing brands that sell on Asian e-commerce platforms and build tools to help them centrally manage their transactions across these different marketplaces.

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Amazon critic Lina Khan named chair of FTC
June 16, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

The Columbia Law Professor has long criticized Amazon’s vast control of commerce online.

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Queensland eyes COVID-19 recovery to be partly driven by innovation investments
June 15, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

In handing down the 2021-22 Budget, the Queensland government has announced that part of the recovery from COVID-19 will be off the back of investments that ‘foster innovation’.

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Western Australia finally thinks about quarantining COVID check-in info from cops
June 15, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

In June 2021, the Australian hard border state has begun the process of protecting COVID contact tracing information from law enforcement, after WA Police have already used it.

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Using the Galaxy Book Pro 360 for a month: A great Swiss knife that could be sharper
June 15, 2021 Uncategorized administrator

The competitively priced and portable Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 is a great offering that checks a lot of boxes, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.

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