A European body representing 42 electric transmission system operators in 35 countries recently experienced a compromise of its office network, the security firm Dragos says, adding it was an IT network that was infiltrated.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has forecast a big drop in its smartphone shipments for 2020, with an internal document saying it expected a hit of about 20% in what would be its first year-on-year decline.

Microsoft appears to have bungled the release of details of flaws in its operating systems and application software this month, with details of a wormable flaw in the SMB protocol leaking online even though the company did not release a fix for it as part of its normal monthly patch Tuesday.

A team of researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan has proposed the use of a silver-carbon (Ag-C) composite layer as the anode for an all-solid-state battery which it says can improve the life, capacity, longevity and safety.

Plastic waste in the ocean is making its way back to land and increasing pollution on Australian beaches, according to new research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $1.25 million in funding to Stanwell Corporation to assess the feasibility of a renewable hydrogen demonstration plant to be co-located near Stanwell Power Station in Central Queensland.

NBN Co has warned that scammers are increasing their efforts to use the NBN brand to steal people’s personal or financial details, with over 180,000 people contacting the builder of the National Broadband Network to report a scam over the six months to December 2019.

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