Social media behemoth Facebook has told the Australian competition watchdog that its community metrics or revenue would not be affected in any way if no Australian news content was available on its web site.

Macqauarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres are making an initial investment of $17 million to build the first stage of a new data centre, Intellicentre 5 (IC5), at its Canberra campus in response to what they say is rising demand for cloud and cyber security services.

Twice in the space of three months, researchers from BlackBerry have put out studies pushing claims about malware and ransomware that is alleged to attack Linux, giving the impression that this operating system is also under as much threat as Windows.

New Zealand cable company Hawaiki Cable has carried out an upgrade to its Oregon point-of-interconnect deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh submarine network solution that uses Waveserver Ai stackable interconnect platform to create a more cost-effective link from Hawaii.

Chipmaker Intel has announced a new security feature known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology to help protect against common malware attack methods that cannot be stopped by software alone.

American companies have been given permission to work with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies when it comes to setting standards for the telecommunications sector.

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