An 18-year-old female student at the Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, has been charged with launching distributed denial of service attacks against more than a dozen US school districts.

Alibaba is open for business with its first Australian based cloud joining Germany, Japan, US East and West Coasts, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and of course China.

Australian and New Zealand shoppers are expected to spend $10.7 billion on online purchases over the Christmas period, forsaking traditional bricks and mortar retailers in the festive season shopping spree. And many of the purchases will be made from mobile devices.

Australia's premier government scientific organisation, the CSIRO, has drafted a blueprint for the future of manufacturing in the country.

The US Internal Revenue Service has issued a broad order to the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to provide details of its users in order that it can be ascertained whether or not they have complied with internal US revenue laws.

Scammers have once again fleeced unsuspecting Australians this year, inundating many with bogus calls, supposedly from the Department of Human Services or Centrelink, targeting pensions and unemployment benefits.

New Zealand-based healthcare tech solutions provider Orion Health is claiming 110 million patient health records under its management worldwide as the company pursues further global expansion.

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