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Accenture
Workforce data has promise and a good bit of peril, says Accenture
ZDNet - Larry Dignan
The good news is that employees are open to companies collecting data on them if it'll improve their well being and productivity. The bad news is …
Technology (Australia)
Auditor labels Australia's Biometric Identification Service 'deficient'
ZDNet - Asha McLean
Management of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's now shuttered AU$32 million biometric project has been called out as poor by the …
Technology
Over 4 percent of all Monero was mined by malware botnets
ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu
Academics say malware authors might have cashed out at least $57 million worth of Monero over the course of the last four years. An estimated 4.32 …
Technology
Online casino group leaks information on 108 million bets, including user details
ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu
Server is now down but is unclear if the cloud provider took it down and if the parent company knows it leaked users details in the first place. An …
Technology
Is Apple paving the way for a new budget mini iPhone?
ZDNet - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Was last weekend's cut-price iPhone SE clearance sale a trial balloon for a new budget mini iPhone? Over the weekend, cut-priced versions of the …
Technology
GDPR: Google hit with €50 million fine by French data protection watchdog
ZDNet - David Meyer
Largest fine so far under new European privacy regulations. The first big fine under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …
Technology
Microsoft's Dynamics 365 April '19 Update: What's new
ZDNet - Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft's 315 pages of release notes about its coming April '19 updates for its various Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform tools details what's …
Technology
Beyond experts: jobs, tasks, and skills for a data driven Future of Work
ZDNet - George Anadiotis
Understanding and keeping track of the relationship between jobs, tasks and skills is essential for the future of work. If current efforts fall …
Technology
Two in five technology job applicants don't have the right technical chops, survey finds
ZDNet - Joe McKendrick
The tech talent gap is biting most of the 1,000 technical hiring managers responding to a recent survey. More than two in five candidates (43 percent) …
Technology
Trio sent behind bars over illegal drug, painkiller trades in the Dark Web
ZDNet - Charlie Osborne
Selling fentanyl and associated drugs in the web's underbelly have earned the UK residents over 43 years in prison. Three men who traded drugs …
Technology
Ricoh eyes subscription model, AI, intelligent workflow platforms to advance smart office cause
ZDNet - Larry Dignan
Ricoh put some meat on its smart office and growth plans with an effort it calls Dynamic Workplace Intelligence. Ricoh rolled out an approach to using …
Technology
HP updates Chromebook education edition lineup
ZDNet - Larry Dignan
The systems, likely to be among many rolling out for education, will be available in April as tech vendors position for the upcoming school year …
Technology
Russia: We're suing Facebook, Twitter for snubbing law on storing users' data locally
ZDNet - David Meyer
Facebook and Twitter are in breach of laws requiring personal data to be kept on Russian soil, say the authorities. Russia's media regulator is suing …
Technology
Panasonic, Toyota to form electric vehicle battery joint venture: report
ZDNet - Charlie Osborne
Reports suggest the companies are planning to form a joint venture in EV battery research and manufacture. Toyota and Panasonic are coming together to …
Technology
New Phobos ransomware exploits weak security to hit targets around the world
ZDNet - Danny Palmer
Ransomware strain has many similarities with one of the most damaging ransomware families. A prolific cybercrime gang behind a series of ransomware …
Technology
New 2016 iPhone SE for $249? Apple's clearance models sell out fast
ZDNet - Liam Tung
The iPhone SE made a brief appearance on Apple's clearance page, but rapidly sold out. While Apple continues to heavily market trade-in prices on its …
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi with extra punch: New Orange Pi 3 packs powerful Allwinner H6 from $30
ZDNet - Liam Tung
The Orange Pi 3 pushes RAM beyond the 1GB limit on earlier Orange Pi boards running on the Allwinner H6 system on chip. Orange Pi maker Shenzhen …
Technology
Brazil's Original bank rolls out facial recognition technology
ZDNet - Angelica Mari
The feature allows account holders to validate information via mobile. Brazil's first digital bank Original has introduced facial recognition …
Technology
Testing Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition, openSUSE Leap and more Linux distributions on my new laptop
ZDNet - J.A. Watson
Loading a new set of different Linux distributions on my new laptop. Here's what I found. In my previous post, I described loading five different …
Technology
Samsung's new Galaxy S10: These are the three models tipped to take on iPhone
ZDNet - Liam Tung
Leaked images reveal three different Galaxy S10 variants that will be unveiled next month. Samsung could be planning to launch three different models …
Google Drive
DarkHydrus abuses Google Drive to spread RogueRobin Trojan
ZDNet - Charlie Osborne
The threat group is striking political targets in the Middle East. The DarkHydrus advanced persistent threat (APT) group is back and this time is not …
Technology
Smaller, cheaper: How these tiny satellites are spinning off new space data movement
ZDNet - Richard Robinson
Finnish microsatellite maker ICEYE is part of a wave of startups providing Earth data to business and governments. Finnish Earth-observation company …
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption of AI has grown 270 percent over the past four years
ZDNet - Charlie Osborne
Gartner says that 37 percent of organizations have now embraced artificial intelligence. It seems the enterprise is taking a serious interest in how …
Technology
Kakao Pay passes 20 trillion won transaction mark for 2018
ZDNet - Cho Mu-Hyun
Chat giant Kakao's mobile payment app surpassed 20 trillion won, or $17.7 billion, in transactions during 2018, cementing itself as the undisputed …
Technology
Cable outage sees Tonga fall back to satellite internet
ZDNet - Chris Duckett
Tonga Cable has been out since Sunday evening, with the timing of any restoration not yet known. The subsea cable providing Tonga with broadband, the …
Technology
Google Maps to roll out speed limit and speed camera features
ZDNet - Campbell Kwan
Finally. The speed camera feature will be launched in Australia, the UK, US, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, and Indonesia, while speed limits …
Technology (Australia)
Bosch to trial automated vehicle tech in country Victoria
ZDNet - Asha McLean
The automotive parts giant was handed a AU$2.3 million grant to trial the technology. The Victorian government has given approval to Bosch to test …
Technology (Australia)
Labor commits to kicking in AU$5m for Sunshine Coast JGA cable landing
ZDNet - Chris Duckett
Australian opposition party calls on Canberra to support JGA cable landing in Queensland. Should a Shorten government come to power in Australia this …
Technology (Australia)
Fuji Xerox scores another ballot screening contract with the AEC
ZDNet - Asha McLean
For almost AU$2 million, Fuji Xerox will be screening the ballots for the 2019 federal election. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has awarded …