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French multinational telco Orange and Canadian satellite operator Telesat have announced a strategic commercial agreement to offer new satellite connectivity options.

The government of Canada has announced new measures to make 5G millimetre wave spectrum available for a range of new services.

Members of Australia's parliament have been advised to carry burner phones when they visit India, Seven's The Nightly website reports.

When will the Federal Government start telling the public the truth about the situation it faces with Facebook, after the social media giant declared, on 29 February, that it would not be renewing deals it had struck in 2021 with Australian media companies, and then followed up by shutting its news tab in Australia?

Google has made its opposition clear to a California bill aimed at making the company pay for using news snippets, threatening to delete links to news sites in what it calls "a short-term test for a small percentage of California users".

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

Legal information and analytics provider LexisNexis has announced the launch of the Australian commercial preview of Lexis+AI, a generative AI solution it says is designed to transform legal work.

Facebook parent Meta has decided to pull the plug on Australian media deals it did three years ago, with the company saying on Thursday it would deprecate Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news, in April.

Unified security platform provider Genetec has officially opened its brand new office and experience centre at 477 Pitt St, only a short walk from Central Station.

Canadian telecommunications company Telus has emerged as the biggest bidder in Canada's mid-band 3800MHz spectrum, securing 1,430 licenses for nearly C$619 million.

The Canadian government has reached a deal with Google to prevent the search company from blocking online news when the Online News Act comes into force by the end of the year.

On September 27-28, 2023, DHS hosted the first Western Hemisphere Cyber Conference, which convened foreign government cyber leaders to discuss cybersecurity challenges and identify areas of collaboration.

Amazon plans to introduce advertisements to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024 in order to churn more content and create more TV shows and movies.

A group of attackers, calling itself Indian Cyber Force and claiming to be supporters of India, has broken into a website owned by a Canadian dental practice, and left evidence of its break-in with pro-India messages.

The Freecycle Network, a group of organisations that allows its members to offer re-usable goods to others free, has been hit by a data breach, according to a statement.

Technology analyst firm Gartner has forecast that shipments of electric vehicles for 2023 will be about 15 million, with this figure including both battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

Social media giant Facebook will cut back on the provision of news in the UK, Germany and France from December onwards, the company says in a blog post.

Broadcom's purchase of VMware, first announced in May 2022, is expected to be finalised by 30 October, the company says in a statement, following the clearance of the deal by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.

A Canadian minister has repeated calls for Meta to end a ban on news content from the country's outlets being hosted on Facebook and Instagram as wildfires devastate the country and people flee.

Facebook's parent Meta has started blocking access to news feeds in Canada, something it threatened to do after the country passed an online news law that forces digital platforms to cut deals with publishing firms.