More than 2.5 million Australians have opted against having a record in the My Health Record digital system, the Australian Digital Health System says in figures released on Wednesday.

A senior associate fellow of the world's and the UK's oldest defence and security think-tank has said that, in his opinion the UK should ban Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from participation in the country's 5G networks or risk being cut of intelligence-sharing by other Five Eyes countries.

Legislation regardless, regulations surrounding data breaches mean more organisations should be using encryption to protect the information they hold, it has been suggested.

Memory is reliably fallible, and so few of us enjoy photographic memories. Reminder apps exist, but a new free Aussie app for iOS and Android has arrived to tie digital strings around the virtual fingers of your cloud-enabled mind's eye.

Melbourne-based software developer Soapbox.ai is applying AI to improve ITSM and other service desks.

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