Rather predictably, the Australian Labor Party has signalled to the Federal Government that it will not stand in the way of the highly unpopular and controversial encryption bill being passed by Christmas, with the ALP doing everything but ending the process of inquiry so that the Government can have its way.

More than 200 Google employees have published a letter, calling on the company to cancel its proposed censored search engine for China, a project that has been named Dragonfly.

Sydney-based education platform provider Sofiri claims it is set to shake up the international education sector with a new online service linking aspiring students with education experts to help them study abroad.

Fast-broadband connectivity is contributing to a boom in female entrepreneurship and giving women more flexibility to choose where and how they work, according to a new self serving research report just released by NBN Co.

A campaign that targets government domains in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the private Lebanese airline, Middle East Airlines, has been uncovered by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group, which claims that the attackers appear to have studied their intended victims' networks well enough to remain inconspicuous.

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson says it expects about 40% of the world's population to be covered by 5G by 2024, with 2019 being the year that the technology takes off.

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