Cloud security and content delivery network provider Akamai has opened a new scrubbing centre in Melbourne as part of its strategy to “outpace the growing scale” of DDoS threats.

Microsoft has awarded the University of Western Australia an AI for Earth grant to support its work to protect threatened species, undertaken as part of the global DNA Zoo initiative.

An augmented reality system designed to eliminate the chances of workers being electrocuted by industrial machinery has won the UNSW Sydney’s Maker Games.

Russian security giant Kasperksy has announced the opening of its first Transparency Centre in the Asia Pacific region, to be hosted by CyberSecurity Malaysia - Malaysia's national cybersecurity specialist agency.

Victoria University is partnering with cyber security vendor Cisco to open a cybersecurity training centre in Melbourne’s West to meet an increasing demand for workers in one of Australia’s fastest growing and under serviced industries.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has established a Button Battery Taskforce to investigate ways to reduce the risk to the community - particularly children - of button batteries.

Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba Group pulled in revenue of RMB114,924 million (US$16,741 million) - an increase of 42% year-over-year – for the June quarter and expanded its user base to 674 million annual active consumers.

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