The Australian Labor Party has written to the Australian National Audit Office seeking an independent assessment of key assumptions underlying the medium- and long-term financial projections of the NBN Co.

Western Australian energy solutions provider Power Ledger has inked an agreement with the Yolk Property Group to use its blockchain technology for solar energy trading between residents of the near-complete Evermore residential development.

Amazon's face surveillance technology, Rekognition, failed to identify 28 current US politicians, instead labelling them as people who had been arrested for crimes.

A new remote access trojan named Parasite HTTP uses macros in Microsoft Word documents to spread and is modular, allowing for the addition of new capabilities.

Banning Huawei from playing a role in Australia's 5G rollout would put Optus and Vodafone at a massive disadvantage vis-a-vis Telstra and create chaos in the local telecommunications market, a respected network analyst says.

Australians will continue to use cash in tandem with digital payment solutions, according to new research revealing that an average of 66% of consumers are withdrawing cash from ATMs at least once a month – with just over half logging into their mobile banking apps every week.

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