If you pass on having a strong password that you regularly update, and if you pass on using a password manager, then you won’t get a pass mark in the test of life, so please don’t fail yourself or the digital twin that is your online existence - please take passwords as seriously as you take locking your house, car or anything else you value.



Dementia Australia’s newest innovation, Talk with Ted, teaches aged care workers how to communicate and interact with patients living with dementia. Through this immersive experience, workers can have an idea how it feels like to live with the brain disease.

Global cybersecurity company Imperva is set to acquire API security vendor CloudVector after entering into an agreement, with the deal expected to be completed by the end of May.

The technical advisory board of the Linux Foundation has asked the University of Minnesota to improve the quality of patches it submits to the kernel project and also follow a "best practices" document to be created by the board.

Technology service provider Efex has appointed Anthony Roberts to the newly created role of chief operating officer.

A talk submitted to an unnamed conference by the co-founder and chief executive of Washington-based audience research start-up SparkToro has been rejected because it contained criticism of Google and Facebook.

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