Fledgling Australian digital bank Xinja says a capital raise which has opened early to existing investors, customers and people who had registered interest has passed the minimum of $500,000 in less than 9 hours.

Researchers from the Australian National University are part of a team that is involved in building a data superhighway for the anticipated quantum Internet which will store data in light particles.

Microsoft will end support and updates for Windows 7 on 14 January next year, the company says, advising users to switch to Windows 10 in order to "keep the good times rolling".

Telstra has added substantial capacity to its subsea cable infrastructure with its first large capacity purchase on the new-generation New Cross Pacific (NCP) cable, and a further investment in the Faster cable.

Data centre provider Equinix will open a carrier-neutral data centre in Seoul by the third quarter of the year, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in the first phase and occupying about 1680 square metres.

The vital importance of an online presence in today’s business landscape was driven home in 2018, with jobs aimed at developing, populating, promoting and marketing websites among the fastest growing areas of online work last year, according to a newly published report on the job market.

Security outfit Tenable Research says it has discovered four zero-day vulnerabilities in the PremiSys building access control system developed by the US firm IDenticard.

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