Steven Paul Jobs sought to leave a dent in the universe, and he did, changing the world with his vision and determination, creating the world's most successful technology company and changing personal computing for the better.

Training and compliance management software company Op Central launches Vax Central, a public health initiative and software solution to assist companies in their COVID-19 vaccination effort.

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare has beaten Facebook to the punch in explaining why the latter suffered a major outage earlier today, with the site disappearing from the Web at about 2.30am AEDT.

The Australian Government's Emergency Alert system is now running on Everbridge Public Warning in all states and territories.

Digital infrastructure provider Equinix has announced expanded support for Kubernetes on Equinix Metal.

Australian consumers are overwhelmingly in favour of small businesses being given the ability to choose the cheapest option to process debit card payments through least cost routing, according to new research by eftpos.

A hearing on an US appeal to strike down a court decision and allow the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be held on 27 and 28 October at the High Court in London, according to a message from the Don't Extradite Assange campaign.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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