A Chinese newspaper has accused the US of resorting to a "despicable rogue's approach" in asking Canada to arrest the daughter of the founder of Huawei, and says this is because Washington "cannot stop Huawei's 5G advance in the market".

The competition watchdog's inquiry into the wholesale service standards of NBN Co has entered its second phase and will consider whether regulation is needed to improve customer experience.

Australia's second biggest telco, Singtel Optus, says Wednesday's announcement by the Federal Government about arrangements for the Universal Service Obligation being retained as such does not reflect "real changes in policy, market and technological realities".

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange's lawyer has refused to buy into an agreement announced by Ecuador President Lenin Moreno for him to leave the country's London embassy after more than six years of taking refuge there.

ANALYSIS The Australian encryption laws were devised for one reason: so that spy agencies could get back on an equal footing with technology firms and have a big stick with which to beat them whenever they want.

Over the last two years, at least eight Eastern European banks have been compromised by attackers who quietly entered their premises and attached hardware devices to the local network, a somewhat novel method of attack, Kaspersky Lab says.

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