Australia's biggest telco Telstra has announced that it will effect a net reduction of 8000 employees and contractors by 2022 and reduce two to four layers of management, leading to the cutting of one in four executive and middle management roles.

Telstra's announcement that its plan to cut 8000 jobs by 2022 will improve customer service has been labelled as "nonsense" by the Australian Greens.

Microsoft employees are protesting their employer's working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the wake of the agency's separation of migrant children from their parents at the Mexico-US border.

A former employee of both the CIA and the NSA has been charged with leaking information from the former agency to WikiLeaks which published them beginning in March 2017 under the name Vault 7.

Computers based in China are alleged to have been used to target satellite, telecommunications, defence and geospatial imaging and mapping organisations in the US and Southeast Asia in what appears to be a cyber espionage campaign, according to the American security company Symantec.

Cabcharge Australia has entered an agreement to acquire all of the issued shares in global taxi booking technology company, Mobile Technologies International (MTI).

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