The European Commission has proposed that all wired digital devices should have USB-C as a common port for charging and also asked companies to standardise on fast charging technology.



Apple has issued a patch for a vulnerability in the kernel of its iOS and macOS operating systems, originally a zero-day, warning that it affected devices running iOS 13, and also the macOS Catalina platform.

A researcher at a security firm that disclosed an issue with a protocol in the Microsoft Exchange mail server software has defended not having made contact with the company before releasing his findings, saying the issue had been known for seven years.

Facebook has once again shown the Australian Government that it cares little about any edicts Canberra may have issued, snubbing SBS and The Conversation when they sought deals with the social media giant under the news media content legislation.

COMPANY NEWS: Network-attached storage Taiwanese company Synology launches C2 Backup, a C2 cloud application which provides data protection for Windows devices, whether at home or distributed across multiple offices.

GUEST OPINION: Hear the term ‘data centre’ and it’s likely to conjure up images of massive warehouse-like buildings crammed floor to ceiling with rack-mounted servers. Increasingly, however, this is not always the case.

GUEST OPINION: Has your business moved some or all of its core software applications to the cloud? For a growing number of local organisations, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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