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• Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says vendor does not spy for China

  ​Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei has rejected claims his company is used by the Chinese government to spy.

• White House launches strategy to lead world in quantum

  The White House yesterday launched a national strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in a bid to secure global leadership in “the next technological revolution”.

• Google asked to reconsider links to China's Huawei

  Lawmakers in the US have asked Google to reconsider its work with Huawei Technologies, which they described as a security threat.

• Facebook cops fresh criticism over sharing data with Chinese tech vendors

  ​Facebook has faced fresh criticism from US lawmakers who have demanded that the social media company be more forthcoming about data it has shared with four Chinese firms.

• US government won't block AI development

  ​The Trump administration will not stand in the way of the development of artificial intelligence in the United States, a top official said on Thursday, while acknowledging that the burgeoning technology will displace some jobs.

• Qualcomm to depose Apple’s services chief in Samsung saga

  As part of Qualcomm's effort to determine whether Apple worked with Samsung to focus regulatory scrutiny on the chipmaker.

• McAfee cracks down on government source code reviews

  McAfee has said it will no longer permit foreign governments to scrutinise the source code of its products.

• What the other Four Eyes make of Australia’s encryption crackdown

  Australia will push “thwarting the encryption of terrorist messaging” at a meeting of the Five Eyes nations in Canada this week.

• Indian vs American programmers

  If there were ever an IT Olympics, in which software developers could compete to solve programming problems, the event would likely take place on Gild, an online career development community where IT professionals from around the world do just that.

• Osama bin Laden death drives traffic spike

  It may have been almost midnight in the United States of America when President Barack Obama fronted the media to pronounce the death of al Qaeda terrorist, Osama bin Laden, but it was peak viewing time in Australia — and Aussies tuned into the announcement in droves.

• DigiSlide receives first order from Fresco in US

  The electronics retail chain has ordered DigiSlide's DigiShow projector

• Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion dollar credit card scam

  Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the "unparalleled" theft of millions of credit card numbers from major U.S. retailers.

• US agency awards $255 million in new broadband funds

  The U.S. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) on Thursday announced US$254.6 million in funding for 22 broadband deployment projects in 18 states across the U.S. as it works to wrap up a first round of broadband funding made available in a huge economic stimulus package passed by Congress early last year.

• Japan connects to TPE regional fiber network

  A new undersea fiber-optic cable has gone into operation that links Japan with the regional Trans-Pacific Express Cable Network (TPE), Japanese carrier NTT Communications said Monday.

• Inmate gets 18 months for hacking prison computer

  A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated.