The Commonwealth Bank and CSIRO'S Data61 unit claim to have successfully tested what they call a new type of smart money, using blockchain technology.

Google has been hit by network issues, apparently due to hijacking of the Border Gateway Protocol by attackers, and diverting traffic away from its intended route.

The number of Australian residents who have a connection to the national broadband network at home has risen to 4.5 million, with nearly half on speeds of 50Mbps or more, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says.

Evolving technology like 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data privacy and cloud will usher in and pave the way for significant IT and network architecture changes in 2019, according to global data centre company Equinix.

One of the curious aspects surrounding the Federal Government's encryption bill is why it took Australian firm network security firm Senetas — which has technology exports in excess of $3 billion — so long to voice its objections to the draft legislation.

Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia has further boosted its credentials in the high performance computing space with the latest report showing that GPUs from Nvidia power 127 of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers.

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