A total of more than 630,000 jobs will be displaced in Australia during the next 10 years, global networking firm Cisco claims in a study carried out by Oxford Economics.

A year after it bent over backwards and voted to make the government's encryption bill law, the Australian Labor Party is attempting to paint itself as some kind of virtuous entity by introducing a bill to bring about amendments to that same law.

Faced with the power of global digital companies, the Federal Government appears to have lost its cojones. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and a host of other Coalition MPs and Senators have waxed voluble about the need to crack down on the likes of Facebook, Google and Twitter, but when it comes to action, they are all like wilting willows.

Amazon Web Services has released more announcements than you can poke a stick at. Stephen Withers gives an overview of the latest products to come off the AWS assembly line.

Ransomware attacks on businesses and governments will continue at a more rapid pace, thanks to newly found security vulnerabilities, according to one global security firm which forecasts further increases in ransomware attacks and VPN “scandals” in 2020 and beyond.

Cloud communications company CommsChoice has completed the deployment of Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams on Office 365 for the Wingecarribee Shire Council in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are to step away from their Alphabet management roles. The two Google founders will remain as members of Alphabet's board of directors and will retain controlling voting shares in the company.

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