US software giant Microsoft has teamed up with National Australia Bank to build an ATM that uses facial recognition and a PIN instead of the traditional card to permit customers to obtain services.

Microsoft-owned GitHub fell over on Sunday US time, with a network partition and subsequent database failure rendering the code repository and hosting service unusable.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, says recent developments in the wholesale market for internet interconnection services will boost competition in the supply of internet connectivity and hosted services to corporate and government customers.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has done users of the national broadband network a great favour by keeping a tab on the speeds that are supplied against those claimed, and publishing statistics periodically to ensure companies do not cheat.

Firefox browser owner Mozilla will start selling subscriptions to a VPN service, targeting a select set of users, from tomorrow onwards in the US.

Fake websites, bogus telephone calls and fake emails are part of the scam inventory being used in Australia as scammers increasingly use fake charities or impersonate real charities on unsuspecting victims, according to a new report.

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