An Indian nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was hit by Windows malware in September, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has acknowledged.

The smartphone market in mainland China grew marginally in the third quarter, with shipments increasing to 97.8 million units from 97.6 million in the second quarter. Huawei extended its market lead by shipping 41.5 million smartphones, to take its market share to a record 42%.

The UK’s National Security Council has delayed a decision on whether Chinese telco giant Huawei’s equipment will be cleared for use in the country’s 5G Network. An announcement was expected this week, but has been postponed indefinitely, a victim of the Brexit paralysis.

Global cosmetics giant L’Oreal is using a solution from cloud data specialist Talend to power its research & innovation department's data lake in a private IaaS environment on Microsoft Azure.

Australian coastlines will come under scrutiny from satellites delivering more data and a picture of “hidden” maritime activity with the impending launch of new scouting satellites from space technology operator Kleos Space..

Germany-based open source company SUSE has announced the availability of its enterprise Linux server distribution, both as a standalone and customised for SAP applications, for use on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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