A report from Deloitte Access Economics has warned part of the potential $94 billion boost to Australia’s GDP over the next nine years from 5G technology is at risk from delayed business readiness and slow industry adoption.



ANZ, one of Australia's big four banks, has completed the first Australian dollar stablecoin payment through a public permissionless blockchain transaction.

Google's I/O event is on 11 and 12 May in the US, but overnight, Google held its annual The Check Up event – an 80 minute event announcing several health innovations across Search, AI, YouTube, Fitbit and more.

Police in the UK have arrested seven teenagers who are allegedly connected to the attack group Lapsus$ that has been in the news recently over attacks on Samsung, Microsoft and Okta.

Steps to mitigate attacks against industrial control systems, outlined by three US Government entities — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the Department of Energy — have come in for some sharp criticism from Robert M. Lee, the chief executive of Dragos, a company that specialises in security for such systems.

The PC market in India grew at 45% year-on-year in 2021, its fastest rate in a decade, with 18.6 million desktops, notebooks and tablets shipped.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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