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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.

Tech giant Alphabet has pulled its standalone Google Pay app from the US, advising users that it would no longer be available from 4 June onwards.

Oppo has announced a new smartphone and a set of new TWS buds at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona overnight, along with a number of AI-centred initiatives and the prototype of the company's new AR glasses.

Lawyers for the US Government have claimed during a British High Court hearing that WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange put the lives of innocent people at risk by publishing unredacted information.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been unable to appear in court in person due to being ill on the first day of a final hearing to decide if he would be able to make a full appeal against being extradited to the US.

Nobody should be surprised that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party have suddenly come out in support for a lower house resolution calling for freedom for WikiLeaks editor and publisher, Australian Julian Assange.

Content delivery network and cloud provider Akamai Technologies has said it will embed cloud computing capabilities into its huge edge network.

Less than a week ahead of what may be his last chance to appeal against his extradition to the US, Julian Assange has gained support from the lower house of Australia's parliament to be released and sent back home.

Microsoft has released fixes for vulnerabilities detailed in 73 CVEs, including two zero-days being exploited in the wild on Patch Tuesday.

A Maltese national has been arrested for allegedly targeting users in Australia and other countries with a remote access trojan or RAT, in a joint operation involving the Australian, Federal Police, Europol and the FBI.

The US has announced plans to invest more than US$5 billion (A$7.67 billion) in semiconductor R&D aimed at establishing the country as a leader in the next generation of these technologies.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has recorded a half-year loss of $696 million for the first six months of fiscal 2024, more than a third over the corresponding six months of fiscal 2023.

Chinese vendor Oppo has released the A18, another in its low-budget smartphone line, with the model available for $219 from a number of outlets.

Security firm Malwarebytes has been one of the few companies or individuals that refused to swallow a bogus report about three million smart toothbrushes being used in a DDoS attack.

China's biggest semiconductor manufacturer will be able to produce 5nm chips this year despite efforts by the US to nobble the country's chip industry, a report claims.

Content delivery network and cloud provider Akamai Technologies has released Content Protector, a product that is claimed to stop scraping attacks without affecting legitimate traffic to websites.

Apple Pay became the third most used digital payment service in Australia in 2023, according to Roy Morgan Research, an independent Australian social and political market research and public opinion statistics company.

A CIA engineer, who was convicted of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that exposed the agency's mass surveillance activities, has been jailed for 40 years.

Microsoft has issued a second post about the attack on its systems by an alleged Russian actor, revealing that the same actor also attacked a number of other organisations, one of which was HPE.

Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo has signed a 5G patent cross-licensing agreement with Finnish phone firm Nokia and says all legal issues between the two companies will be sorted out.