In its latest bid to make the rest of the world avoid the use of equipment from Chinese telecommunications outfit Huawei Technologies, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told the Fox Business Network that Washington would not partner, or share information, with any country that used the Chinese firm's gear in its 5G networks.

Google has provided the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission another good reason to investigate the algorithms it uses for its ad network after its YouTube network was found to be harbouring paedophiles who share videos showing the exploitation of children.

IBM's acquisition of open source company Red Hat means that Big Blue is betting that the future of cloud computing is hybrid and it has made the purchase to cover its flanks in this area, the technology analyst firm Gartner says.

One year since the Australian Government put in place a data breach notification law, the only visible change is that the workload of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has increased - it has to issue quarterly breach list, But nobody is any the wiser as to how the man in the street is affected by the various breaches that are reported periodically.

File system specialist Paragon Software Group is now licensed by Microsoft to provide OEMs with exFAT drivers for their devices. exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a Microsoft-patented file system suitable for use with removable media, particularly flash-based storage.

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