The US Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence has invited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to testify before it in connection with its probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

Engineers at Google used search queries from a Chinese Web directory service owned by the company to develop blacklists for a censored search engine that is planned to be provided in China, possibly as soon as this year. A functioning version of the search engine is said to be ready.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark says it is on track to start providing 5G services to consumers and businesses from 2020 following the success of trials of the technology.

Annual security costs for companies are much less in Australia than in Germany, the US, the UK and Singapore, the global cyber security firm Malwarebytes says in a report released on Wednesday.

Competition watchdog, the ACCC, has given the go-ahead for Energizer Holdings to acquire the global battery and portable lighting business of Spectrum Brands Holdings.

The Document Foundation, the body that governs the open-source office suite LibreOffice, has announced the second major release of LibreOffice 6.

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