The number of job advertisements declined markedly in Australia in April, with the Information and Technology sector hit by a 6.4% drop in jobs advertised nationally, according to a new report by Australia’s largest jobs board.

The United States has officially banned the use of equipment from Chinese telecommunications vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation, with President Donald Trump signing an executive order to this effect.

In addition, the US has placed Huawei and some 70 of its affiliates on a list that means it will have to obtain government approval in order to buy American-made components.

Competition in the market for NBN aggregation services is developing as the rollout of Australia's broadband network continues and there is, therefore, no need to ask dark fibre and wholesale aggregation service providers to provide pricing and supply data, the ACCC says.

Japanese public retail holding firm Fast Retailing has revealed that its UNIQLO Japan and GU Japan online stores have been breached and a total of 461,091 customer accounts accessed through a credential stuffing attack between 23 April and 10 May.

Google has been caught out hiding privacy settings in its Google Pay app that can restrict what information the company collects about users. Three settings are all selected and only accessible via a special URL and not through the settings link of the app.

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