Hi John, The Transport Workers Union has slammed a proposal by Australia's chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel for a voluntary certificate to give artificial intelligence companies and products an ethical stamp, saying it is "miles off the protections we need to keep people safe and alive in Australia".
Apple has reportedly notified processor giant Intel that it will not be using the latter's 5G modems in its 2020 mobile devices, leading to a halt in production of the same. The European Parliament has voted against proposals to begin talks to update copyright laws for the digital age, with the parliament's plenary voting 318-278, with 31 abstentions, overnight to reject the negotiating mandate that had been proposed by its legal affairs committee on 20 June. In good news for smaller ISPs, NBN Co has launched a new product to enable retail service providers to acquire AVC and CVC directly from the company without needing a physical connection to all 121 points of interconnect. A sacked employee of the Israeli cyber security form NSO Group Technologies stole the source code for the company's Pegasus spy software and tried to sell it on the dark web for the equivalent of US$50 million in cryptocurrency. Rural and low-income Americans would be affected by a Federal Communications Commission decision not to allow subsidies for purchase of Huawei Technologies equipment, the Chinese telecommunications firm has said in a filing. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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