Consumer action group Digital Tasmania has called for funding to ensure new fibre optic communications links are connected to Tasmania to improve reliability, capacity and competition, benefiting every Tasmanian individual and business.



Identity and access provider BeyondTrust has integrated BeyondTrust Password Safe with SailPoint's identity security products and services.

Technology services firm Atturra has become a reseller of Focus HQ's project portfolio management system for local government.

Digital insurance platform Kanopi has appointed Rishin Patel to the role of head of insurance and Micha Goldfine to the role of head of design.

Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk is strengthening its presence in Japan, with plans to build a new 110+ megawatt hyperscale data centre in West Tokyo, named TOK2.

GUEST OPINION: Since Y2K, there has been no shortage of doomsayers in the technology sector. Fixated on the digital apocalypse, their attention has turned to quantum computing and the disaster it could spell for encryption and digital privacy the world over. But beyond the hyperbole, what is the real threat and when will it arrive?

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire



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