If you've been tempted by Huawei's new Mate 20 or Mate 20 Pro smartphones, the company says it is extending the pre-order offers until Friday 9 November due to "high demand".

Global shipbuilder Austal's data management systems in Australia were hacked recently and an extortion bid made by the attacker, the company said in a notice to the ASX on Thursday.

Business-only bank Tyro is claiming an Australian-first with its first merchant — Heinemann Australia — implementing the Chinese mobile payment platform Alipay in its new stores at Gold Coast International Airport.

A trial of renewable classrooms has been expanded to Queensland, with Brisbane high school students now being taught in Australia’s first solar- and battery-powered portable classroom.

The advent of digital transformation over the coming months will bring industry-wide disruption to markets around the world, according to a newly released tech trends report.

Is the state of security stuffed? Well, with security credential stuffing attacks one of the big dangers this year, we spoke to Akamai's APJ Head of Security Technology and Strategy, Fernando Serto.

As the cost of local computing rises (for all manner of reasons) and the ability to defend against malware decreases, will everything end up in the cloud? David Heath provides the reasons that this is inevitable.

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