ASX-listed Canberra-based cyber security firm archTIS has struck a deal with the Federal Attorney-General's Department, with the latter to be the first beta client of its cloud-based Kojensi Gov platform.

Data61, the CSIRO’S innovation network, has collaborated with the Commonwealth Bank to develop an app as part of a trial to explore the potential for blockchain technology to create ’smart money’.

A bid by a British collective to sue Google over what it claimed was the company's tracking of 4.4 million iPhone users between August 2011 and February 2012 has been blocked by the UK High Court.

Basslink, the company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland, has referred the dispute between it and Hydro Tasmania to arbitration, after dispute resolution procedures failed to resolve the issue.

The Bloomberg story, claiming chips are being implanted by a Chinese contractor on server motherboards sold by US firm Supermicro Computer and being used to spy on some companies, will financially benefit reporters Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley who wrote it if it holds up under scrutiny

Software giant Microsoft is set to get the approval of the European Union for its US$7.5 billion (A$9.79 billion at the time of the announcement) bid to buy source code repository GitHub, a report claims.

Motorola Solutions has deployed a digital radio system at New Zealand’s Christchurch Airport to enhance communications as the airport manages a travel boom in the country.

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