TWelcome to the first edition of iTWire UPDATE for 2018.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has introduced new rules for road traffic authorities to put intelligent transport systems in place.

Processor giant Intel has told some of its customers that the microcode patches it issued to fix the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in its products are buggy and that they should not install them.

A forensics expert from the FBI has lashed out at Apple, calling the company's security team a bunch of "jerks" and "evil geniuses" for making it more difficult to circumvent the encryption on its devices.

A man from the city of North Royalton in Ohio has been charged with allegedly creating and installing malware on thousands of Apple computers for more than 13 years.

Open Whisper Systems, the maker of the privacy-focused Signal messaging app, will be helping Microsoft to introduce a Private Conversations feature in Skype.

The city of Barcelona plans to move its workers to open source software, with proprietary applications being the first to be replaced.

India's market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, has banned PriceWaterhouseCoopers' affiliates from auditing any listed companies in India for two years.

Chinese Android users are switching to iPhone. Apple's iPhone has done extremely well in some countries, with Kantar stating Apple "is now back on form”.

And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.

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