The UK has left the door open for a backflip on its reported decision to give Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei technologies a limited role in the rollout of 5G networks, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt saying that London would never take a decision that would compromise its ability to share intelligence with its Five Eyes colleagues.

Along with miserable broadband, the NBN has brought into our lives a number of terms that sound like words from a foreign language that are designed to prevent one from ever understanding what the whole thing is about. The head of one ISP is trying to demystify the network using simple language and everyday analogies.

The big five technology firms in the US — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — spent about US$582 million lobbying the US Congress on various issues between 2005 and 2018, the VPN provider vpnMentor says, and details what issues they spent their money on.

Predictably, new research commissioned by CRM and RPA vendor Pegasystems suggests Australians want to talk to people rather than bots for all but the simplest customer service tasks.

The arrest of three members of a cyber crime gang known as FIN7 in August last year, who were then indicted in the US over charges of using malware to steal millions of credit and debit card numbers which they then either used or sold, has not prevented the group from continuing its malicious activities.

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