A Senate panel chaired by Tasmanian Labor Senator Helen Polley has it considers the authorisation of coercive search powers for the Australian Federal Police and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in a current bill — the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 — could unduly trespass on personal rights and liberties.



In a move that has set off alarm bells with licensees worried that Telstra won't pay them the proper market value for their stores, Telstra announced its intention "to transition to full Telstra ownership for its bricks and mortar branded retail stores across Australia".

ACMI, Australia's national museum of screen culture, has reopened after at $40 million redevelopment.

Linux patching specialist KernelCare is offering a free patching service for home and non-commercial projects based on the Raspberry Pi.

A Senate committee that has held public hearings into the Federal Government's news media code is unlikely to propose any changes to the bill before it.

The water treatment plant in a Florida city, that was breached last week and had its sodium hydroxide levels changed temporarily before they were reversed back to normal, was running an outdated version of Windows and the password for its TeamViewer application was shared among all employees, according to an advisory from the Massachusetts state government.

The competition watchdog the ACCC has raised preliminary concerns over the “substantial lessening” of competition in the accounting software market from MYOB’s proposed acquisition of GreatSoft.

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