Lawyers have filed a suit against the CIA, its director at the time Mike Pompeo and security firm UC Global for allegedly spying on WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange and his visitors while he was in the Ecuador embassy in London.



Visual communications platform Canva launched Canva Whiteboards, a new way to organise ideas and bring them to life.

The state of competition for social media services and consumer concerns with the services in Australia is to come under scrutiny by the competition watchdog the ACCC as part of its Digital Platform Services inquiry.

The Northern Territory Government has rolled out the first stage of its $259 million Acacia patient health record system at Katherine Hospital.

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has unveiled its latest innovations in recycling including smart bin technology to automatically sort plastic, metal and glass.

Brisbane-based cloud hosting and web development company ATech has appointed Gary Linton to the newly created role of non-executive chair, promoted Glenn Prinsen to the role of operations manager, and appointed Amanda Brown and Manuel Ruiz to the roles of community manager and senior web developer respectively.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire



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