Touted as the taxi industry's comeback to Uber, the ihail booking app may not see the light of day with the ACCC proposing to block its entry to the market. [ + ]

The professionalism arm of the global federation representing ICT employees has insisted that software engineers have an obligation to refuse and even report unethical orders from higher-ups. [ + ]

Growing adoption of HTTPS encryption has allowed attackers to disguise malware within encrypted traffic to keep it undetected by conventional security systems. [ + ]

LinkedIn to pay $18m to settle a class action over unwanted emails, Global IT services company CSC plans to purchase Australian company UXC, and HP will split into two listed entities.

Gartner expects the rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning, a diverse and growing range of connected devices and other technology advances to shape the main tech trends for 2016 and beyond. [ + ]

In a matter of weeks, Kmart and David Jones — as well as Patreon and T-Mobile USA overseas — have fallen victim to cyber attacks, while new threats including a variant of the notorious Carbanak malware have surfaced. [ + ]

Microsoft has revealed plans to launch a range of new Surface, Lumia and Band devices running the Windows 10 operating system by the end of the year. [ + ]

This week: Banks behaving badly, NRL's footy photo fail, nuclear nightmare from cyber attacks, quantum computing's future, and a knot-tying flying robot. [ + ]

The Australian cloud contact centre market grew by 99.1% in 2014 and is set to be worth $51 million by 2021, says a new Frost & Sullivan report. [ + ]

Australian financial services provider Link Group has signed an $80 million deal to expand its managed IT infrastructure services arrangement with Fujitsu to cover the entire business. [ + ]

35% of Australian organisations are exposed to APTs; Privileged account abuse one of the main threats to corporate security; Botnet capable of 150 Gbps+ DDoS attacks in the wild [ + ]

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has produced a guide designed to help organisations protect against the compromise and abuse of privileged accounts. [ + ]

Claims that hackers infiltrated Hilton POS systems, Google under investigation over competitors' access to Android, and researchers say they've recovered RSA keys from Amazon Web Services. [ + ]

nbn today successfully launched its first broadband satellite into orbit signalling a leap towards better broadband for regional and remote Australia. [ + ]

Vodafone Australia and TPG have signed two agreements worth over $1bn involving the supply of dark fibre to Vodafone cell sites and the migration of TPG's mobile customers to Vodafone's network. [ + ]