Australia's third-biggest smartphone vendor, Huawei, has been dealt a potentially devastating blow, with President Trump banning US companies from trading with the firm. [ + ]

Job prospects in Australia's growing ICT sector remain strong — but only in emerging sectors such as cybersecurity and robotics. [ + ]

The Australian Information Industry Association and StartupAUS have called on the government to deliver on its commitments to support Australia's IT sector. [ + ]

Subscribers to 50 Mbps or higher nbn plans grew to represent 58.4% of the total nbn customer base as of the end of March. [ + ]

IT governance industry association ISACA has published a white paper outlining best-practice recommendations for achieving continuous cloud oversight. [ + ]

Both major political parties have released more details of their IT, education and cyber policies. Here's our take on what they're offering. [ + ]

While neither side of politics is saying much about our increasingly maligned National Broadband Network during the election period, the fact is Australia is falling behind in the race to leverage the benefits — economic and social — of an emerging digitally enabled future. [ + ]

The OAIC's quarterly and annual Notifiable Data Breach reports find that cyber attacks are responsible for the majority of incidents, with health care the hardest hit. [ + ]

The ACS has called for the establishment of a $100m Industry 4.0 skills fund, as part of a series of policy recommendations for the next government. [ + ]

Major nbn RSPs are achieving nbn speeds closer to their maximum plan speeds, but 13% of services are still significantly underperforming. [ + ]

A joint study by DXC and Telsyte finds that one in five Australian organisations plan to create new IT roles this year to facilitate digital transformation. [ + ]

The attackers that breached the internal Citrix network appear to have used password spraying techniques to gain undetected access, the company said. [ + ]

The National Cyber Security Adviser and head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Alastair MacGibbon, will return to the private sector at the end of the month. [ + ]

In the lead-up to May's federal election, we've cut through the spin, PR and platitudes to provide this overview of the main parties' technology policies. [ + ]

In tech, the two cutting-edge concepts creating some of the most controversy are artificial intelligence and robotic process automation. [ + ]