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Australia's Fintel Alliance combining data to thwart criminal activity

The public-private data-sharing initiative uncovered activities linked to child exploitation.

6 minutes ago by Asha McLean in Innovation

Firefox 63 released with 'always-on' tracking protection

Starting with Firefox 63, Mozilla's Tracking Protection feature is now enabled for all users.

41 minutes ago by Catalin Cimpanu in Open Source

NBN chair rules out network write-down

Ziggy Switkowski said the ability to properly value the network will not happen until the 2020s.

42 minutes ago by Chris Duckett in Networking

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure introduces AMD EPYC powered instances

Oracle says it's the largest public cloud provider to have bare metal instances on AMD EPYC processors.

2 hours ago by Stephanie Condon in Cloud

HP unveils $84M Singapore lab focused on digital manufacturing technologies

Launched together with Nanyang Technological University, where it is located, the HP-NTU Corporate Innovation Lab will focus on 3D printing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

2 hours ago by Eileen Yu in 3D Printing

Sony to use blockchain tech to protect educational copyrighted content

Distributed ledger technologies could one day be used to protect content including VR content, films, and books.

3 hours ago by ZDNet Editors in Blockchain

Magecart group leverages zero-days in 20 Magento extensions

Security researcher asks for help in identifying all vulnerable Magento extensions. Only two of 20 currently identified.

3 hours ago by Catalin Cimpanu in Security

HP launches EliteBook x360 1040 G5, takes aim at Lenovo's ThinkPad Carbon X1

HP wants to win over commercial customers and is making a bet that its next-gen EliteBook x360 can win over users.

3 hours ago by Larry Dignan in Hardware

Amazon Echo Plus (2018) review: A refined upgrade

4 hours ago by Jason Cipriani in Amazon

Ebay sues Amazon for infiltrating its M2M system and stealing its traders

The lawsuit alleges that Amazon has been abusing eBay systems to steal high-value sellers for years.

6 hours ago by ZDNet Editors in Legal

Does Google's great new ad have a secret message for China?

It's communicating a simple message about Google's new phone. Or is it?

7 hours ago by Chris Matyszczyk in Mobility

AI startup People.ai gets $30 million from Andreessen Horowitz to free up workplace drudgery

San Francisco-based cloud software startup People.ai is building data "pipelines" using machine learning that will automate much of the drudgery of updating contacts in systems such as Salesforce.com. CEO Oleg Rogynskyy tells ZDNet the result can be saving executives 20 percent to 40 percent of their busywork.

7 hours ago by Tiernan Ray in Artificial Intelligence

​Linus Torvalds talks about coming back to work on Linux

While in Edinburgh, I caught up with Linus Torvalds. He confided his thoughts about returning to Linux, the Code of Conduct, and some software, BPF, which is fundamentally changing how the Linux kernel and user space work together.

8 hours ago by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software

​IBM open-sources Mac sysadmin software

IBM, yes IBM, has been giving its workers the choice of moving to Macs and they've been moving to them quickly. This, in turn, has led IBM to create, and now open source, a Mac system administration program: Mac@IBM code.

8 hours ago by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in IBM

Tableau commits $100 million toward using data, analytics to solve global issues

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky said the aim is to "support innovative data projects that will make a meaningful difference in the world."

8 hours ago by Larry Dignan in Big Data Analytics