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• Gumtree’s chief technology officer departs

  Gumtree Australia’s chief technology officer, Paolo Ragone, is departing the role after more than half a decade at the organisation and a decade within the broader eBay Classifieds Group.

• Australian IoT industry told to put security first

  Professor Jill Slay, the director of the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at UNSW in Canberra, has delivered a scathing attack on the IoT industry for failing to design in security, on the vendor community for peddling false promises, and bemoaned what she sees as a general lack of leadership in cyber security.

• XG.Fast delivers 8Gbps over copper in NBN lab trials

  NBN has achieved speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second over 30 metres of copper using XG.Fast, the company announced today.

• Gartner: A.I. to become a top business investment priority

  Mention artificial intelligence and a discussion about the robot wipeout of humankind is sure to follow. But it's also a technology that businesses will increasingly trust in decision-making, Gartner analysts said at the research firm's annual Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando.

• Tesla Panasonic solar deal could signal smart home future

  Tesla's deepening relationship with Panasonic could give the U.S. company a short cut to realizing its dream of electric cars and smart homes.

• UK spy agencies illegally collected data for years, court rules

  The U.K.'s spy agencies breached the European Convention on Human Rights for years by secretly collecting almost everything about British citizens' communications except their content, a U.K. court has ruled.

• WikiLeaker Assange's internet access cut by a 'state actor'

  A "state actor" has cut off internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the transparency activist organization said Monday.

• Dyre banking Trojan successor rears its ugly head

  Cybercriminals have unleashed a new banking Trojan onto the Internet and it bears striking similarities to Dyre, a malware threat believed to be dead for almost a year.

• New bill takes aim at ‘revenge porn’

  A private member’s bill introduced into the House of Representatives by federal Labor MP Tim Watts seeks to explicitly criminalise the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, often dubbed ‘revenge porn’.

• Banks vs Apple: Banks confirm only Apple Pay in their sights, for now

  A group of banks has confirmed that, at present, only Apple Pay is targeted by an application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that would allow them to engage in a collective boycott of digital wallet services.