Computer Daily News 
Silicon Valley leaders called for increased gun control on Tuesday after a woman at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, Silicon Valley, shot and wounded three people before taking her own life. Tech companies have largely avoided the topic of gun control in the US, but they have previously pushed for progressive stances on … Read more
The Turnbull Government is preparing to introduce strict new rules on data sharing by Australian-based banking and telecommunications companies. This follows a number of international data-sharing scandals, most recently the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica affair, which saw Facebook selling its users’ personal information to advertisers. That will be strictly prohibited under Australia’s new regime. Legislation now being … Read more
More than a decade since Google bought DoubleClick for a cool $3.1 billion, it’s estimated that Google’s ad network now reaches about 250 million unique viewers in the US alone. But the company is being hit with a burgeoning number of cyber attacks, abusing DoubleClick in a bid to distribute moneymaking malware. The malware’s goal: … Read more
After a lengthy investigation, the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has lambasted the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for the fiasco in the 2016 federal election when a Senate scanning system – designed to capture voter preferences from ballot papers – largely failed, requiring a full manual recount that took many days and increased costs by … Read more
Atlassian shares dropped more than seven percent in trading late last week, despite the Australian-based company reporting Q2 results that topped analysts’ estimates and issuing an optimistic forecast. The shares shed nearly five percent on Thursday and a further 2.5 percent on Friday. The company had reported a dramatically deeper loss of US$65 million for … Read more
SIM flogger Amaysim has embraced Amazon’s Alexa voice-activated digital assistant, just launched in Australia. It is offering a new “Alexa skill” that it says will enable Amaysim customers to manage account services and locate handsets by using their voices. CTO Julian Dell says the move reflects the company’s conviction that Australia is facing a rapid … Read more
The Commonwealth Bank has launched “Ceba” described as a “talking chatbot” which could handle phone requests to perform up to 200 banking tasks, including answering queries and making bill payments. CommBank says Ceba will deal with requests such as “Can I have a copy of my statement?”, ” I want to open a new account” … Read more
Samsung Electronics’ US$8 billion purchase of automotive and audio electronics company Harman – announced earlier this year – has given the technology conglomerate confidence to chase more big deals, its strategy chief has said. Harman believes it can triple sales by 2025, CEO Dinesh Palliwal said in an interview at the IFA consumer electronics fair … Read more
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said it is “seeking feedback” on proposed variations of Telstra’s NBN migration plan, which facilitates the rollout of fibre-to-the-curb technology (FttC). The watchdog is assessing whether Telstra’s variations will offer sufficient protection for consumers to maintain access to services delivered by the NBN. Rollout of FttC technology is scheduled to commence … Read more
Did you take an Uber taxi ride last year? If so, you might well have had your private details hacked and made available to the world. The alternative taxi service has informed the Australian Privacy Commissioner that it believes the details of some 1.2 million Aussie riders were affected when hackers breached its systems internationally … Read more