Huawei Australia chairman John Lord has launched a strong defence of the company and its operations, saying that if it were excluded from the 5G network build locally it would be of huge significance for the company.

One-third of the appeals made by those who were slugged with debts by Centrelink, over what has come to be known as the Federal Government's robo-debt scheme, have been upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Google has told its staff that it will not renew its deal with the Pentagon to work on Project Maven, a project which provides the military with AI technology to better identify images on the battlefield.

The US Government could soon ask Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation to pay a fine of US$1.7 billion as part of a deal to allow the firm to start trading again.

Software giant Microsoft Corporation could announce a deal to buy source code repository GitHub as soon as Monday US time, a report claims.

Amaysim has evolved from a mobile phone virtual network operator (MVNO) company into a utilities provider, and is taking advantage of its offerings to make deals to get you to switch.

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