Lawyers handling the case of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Vancouver on 1 December on a US request, will seek to portray the extradition request made by Washington as an abuse of the Canadian legal process and due to political reasons.

IT asset lifecycle management company Greenbox has completed what it says is Australia’s largest technology asset disposal for the Department of Defence, with more than 110,000 ICT devices repurposed.

Security firm Check Point has discovered malware that uses a remote exploit to gain a presence on Linux servers and implant a backdoor trojan, and has dubbed it SpeakUp. The malware can also infect Mac devices.

Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm has launched a second data centre 10 months after launching its first data centre in Indonesia as part of its South East Asian expansion strategy.

Accounting software company Xero has established new partnership agreements with Uber for Business and Adobe Sign which it says are aimed at reducing friction for business advisors and their small business customers.

The peak body for science and technology has called for stronger investment in research and support for a strong and diverse research workforce to help Australia keep pace with rapid global change and fuel a brighter future for all Australians ahead of the May 2019/20 Federal Budget.

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