The NBN Co's new corporate plan has not attracted much scrutiny, probably due to the fact that the Morrison Government has now announced it will make the network mostly fibre. That has been the debating point all these years: the multi-technology mix network championed by the Coalition, versus the 93% fibre rollout advanced by Labor.



Finnish telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia says it has signed 17 new commercial 5G deals in the third quarter of the year, bringing the total signed with individual customers to 100. Including paid trials, the total number of commercial engagements is said to be 160.

Microsoft has blamed a latent code defect — in other words, a software bug — in the Azure Active Directory backend service Safe Deployment Process system for the outage that its 365 services suffered between 21.25 UTC on 28 September (8.25am AEDT on 29 September) and 00.23 UTC on 29 September (11.23am AEDT ON 30 September).

A new "Surface Laptop Go" delivers a more affordable laptop price with 10th-gen Core i5 processors has arrived alongside an updated Surface Pro X with an SQ 2 ARM processor with more power and longer battery life, as have some new accessories.

What is the value of an Australian passport? I'm sure that this question would have passed through the mind of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, one of the best hackers this country has produced — and I mean that in the original sense, as someone who plays around with software — many times over the years he has spent trying to hide from the US and UK authorities.

A recent advisory from the combined "Five Eyes" security agencies shows the attitudes by security authorities in relation to various forms of malware are changing.

Hacking and surveillance are not necessarily bad, if the good guys are doing it...right? The question is how deeply do ethics run in the IT industry.

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