Queensland's lawsuit against IBM thrown out, regulators want to fine Toshiba $82m over accounting violations, and controlling a car with your mind. [ + ]

Even though businesses in markets including Australia acknowledge that IT outages are a fact of business life, only around 52% have an incident response team, a survey indicates. [ + ]

Dimension Data has been selected to provide all the IT infrastructure, including Wi-Fi and fibre equipment, for the upcoming $550m shipping terminal at Port of Melbourne. [ + ]

In an industry dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services, there are plenty of prospects for smaller players to provide customised solutions for different levels of business. [ + ]

Global DDoS activity surged 180% year-on-year in the third quarter to set a new record for the frequency of attacks, Akamai's research indicates, but attack volumes and durations also declined. [ + ]

Australian businesses have pledged support to recycle their old electronic waste (e-waste) for today's inaugural TechCollect 'Waste Not, Want Not' Day. [ + ]

The CBA has announced it will invest $10 million to support researchers to build the world's first silicon-based quantum computer in Sydney. [ + ]

This week: Killer kittens vs robots, a salad-proof microwave oven, leap second decision put on hold, NASA's new robot, and US IT system runs US$140m over budget. [ + ]

Forward thinkers are aggregating pools of end-to-end 'compute' resources with an advanced set of economics and automated approaches to power a new style of business. [ + ]

Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand is working with Microsoft and Westpac on a predictive analytics platform for chartered accountants. [ + ]

The government has announced a new National Innovation and Science Agenda involving investing $1.1bn over four years to improve Australia's ability to commercialise innovative ideas. [ + ]

Apple and Adobe products topped the October list of the top 20 most vulnerable products in a report from Flexera, but Microsoft had the most products represented in three monthly top 20s due to Flash flaws.

Telstra leaves 26,000 customers' Cisco devices open to attack, BlackBerry to quit Pakistan due to government snooping, and toymaker VTech's customer data stolen. [ + ]

A research study has shown that curiosity plays a hugely important role in personal and professional lives, with respondents identifying that it has helped them achieve great things in both. [ + ]

By educating the workforce on novel ways to identify and use data, CDOs can help their organisations to manage it as a strategic asset. [ + ]