Social media giant Facebook has announced it will launch its own cryptocurrency under the name Libra next year through a new subsidiary Calibra which will also supply the digital wallet for the new currency, a move that has been met with criticism from politicians and regulators alike.

Reports that millions of servers running the mail transport agent Exim are being attacked through a recently announced vulnerability are unreliable, a senior official from Qualys, the company that discovered the vulnerability, says.

Recent concerns over the security offered by containers are not unjustified, the chief technologist for Germany-based SUSE in the Asia-Pacific says, adding however that there are a lot of operational things that could be done to mitigate the risk.

Australian-listed telecommunications provider Vonex is partnering with Qantas in a deal to allow small to medium business (SME) members of the airline’s business loyalty program to earn reward points when they fly, and spend money on Vonex products and services.

Second-hand wind turbines, solar and a battery will combine to power a remote mine in Western Australia, in a claimed first-of-its kind project supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Microsoft often likes to portray itself as a company that supports education and research, but that appears to be just a pose, with the company showing its real colours recently when it stripped the European Organisation for Nuclear Research of the status of "academic institution”, says Sam Varghese in another scathing op-ed.

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