An Australian who has claimed to be the founder of bitcoin has been hit with a US$10 billion lawsuit by the estate of one of his early collaborators.

A bill which will enable courts to decide cases in which the US Government seeks access to data stored abroad by American companies is unlikely to pass through Congress in time to resolve a case involving Microsoft.

Australian-listed mobile entertainment and digital media company Crowd Mobile has reported revenue of $21.1 million for the first six months of the 2018 financial year on the back of what it says was a strong performance in its Q&A division and strategic investment into the Crowd Media business.

A group of women who work in the technology sector has set up a list of their peers who can serve as speakers at tech events, in order that they can be better represented at such events.

After the demise of the Ubuntu Phone, Linux users appear to be placing their hopes for a mobile device on the Librem 5, a smartphone that managed to raise much more than it asked for in a crowd-funding drive. The company behind it, Purism, has said that it hopes to have phones ready next year.

Melanoma Institute Australia is trialling BlackBerry Workspaces as a way to secure patient data during clinical trials.

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