An extra US$15 billion a week has been spent globally on technology by IT leaders to enable safe and secure home working during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis, representing one of the biggest surges in technology investment in history - with Australian IT leaders increasing spending on cyber security, despite struggling to find skilled cyber security professionals, according to a new global survey.



While many people are rejoicing over the Coalition Government's backflip on its NBN policy and its announcement that it will spend to get fibre delivered to up to eight million subscribers in all, nobody should for a moment think that this is some Damascene conversion opines Sam Varghese in another biting commentary.

While competitors have all kinds of unlimited talk and text plans with varying levels of data for any type of customer, Optus hopes its newfound flexibility fulfils its promise of "prepaid, remade".

Australian-listed cloud-based IT solutions provider Linius Technologies says it has received firm commitments from professional investors to raise $5 million, before costs.

Oracle claims to be the first major cloud provider to make Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU on bare metal instances.

AMD has announced the first AMD Ryzen mobile processors for Chromebooks, along with two new Athlons for Google's portable platform.

Australian telecommunications consultant Paul Budde says while it is great to see the government doing a backflip on its fibre policy, the big question now is how access to fibre optic services will be made affordable for residential users.

A study of the Linux kernel, right from its first commit on 17 September 1991 to 2 August this year, shows that it has had more than 20,000 contributors in those 29 years.

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