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The Swiss government has initiated consultation lasting until 23 June 2025 on a programme to expand high-speed internet throughout Switzerland.

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.

Microsoft has announced it would be unbundling its Teams communication software from its Office suite, and making it easier for rival products to work with its offerings.

Facebook parent Meta has changed its data processing rules for those living in the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland, saying it would from now on seek consent for targeted advertising.

Scientists from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and Queensland University of Technology, have partnered to use artificial intelligence to develop a “world-first benchmark” for measuring brain atrophy – or thinning - in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.

European security firm MDSec has taken exception to the release of a blog post by another security outfit, Proofpoint, about its penetration testing framework Nighthawk, accusing the latter of making "unsubstantiated and speculative projections" about the framework.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

In the days prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and thereafter, there have been numerous people in the infosec business who have predicted that there would be a massive outbreak of what they characterised as cyber-conflict between these two countries. But little or nothing has eventuated.

The head of Australian and New Zealand operations for Swiss human resources giant Adecco feels that the technology sector needs to stay away from bias in leadership in order to make progress.

Shipments of traditional PCs — notebooks, desktops and workstations — in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will come to 82.7 million units this year, a 12.7% increase year-on-year, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that with the effect of the pandemic not expected to lessen in any way, the demand for devices that could be used for working from home would be strong through 2020 and into the first half of 2021.

Australia's average 5G download speed is third among the leading 12 5G markets studied by analytics firm OpenSignal, with Saudi Arabia, unexpectedly, top and South Korea second.

Germany's Dussmann Group, which offers services ranging from technical management, catering, security and cleaning to commercial property management, appears to have taken a hit from a gang of malicious attackers who have used the Nefilim Windows ransomware to stage the attack.

Australia has been ranked 12th in the global 5G market out of 22 countries which have been examined for their deployment of the technology, the global research company OMDIA (formerly Ovum) says.

Up to 3 million Australians – mostly in rural and regional Australia - will miss out on getting access to critical 5G technology by 2023 because of the Australian Government’s 5G ban on China’s Huawei in Australia - and come at a cost to the national economy of US8.2 billion in lost GDP gains, according to UK based global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm Oxford Economics.

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Qualcomm and Ericsson have taken a step forward in the large-scale rollout of 5G across Switzerland with a claimed first over-the-air, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) 5G data call successfully carried out.

Five G is Australia’s last chance to deliver universal high-speed broadband to all Australians, according to Chinese telco giant Huawei, which says that Australia is already being left far behind in the global race to deliver 5G technology.

Swiss 5G operator Sunrise and Huawei say they have achieved a top speed of 3.67Gbps downlink with multiple 5G smartphones in one 5G cell in Zürich.

TSB, the seventh largest bank in New Zealand, has used Swiss banking software provider Temenos Infinity's platform to go live in nine weeks and make it easier for customers to join the bank.