The federal government has announced plans to establish a new Home Affairs super portfolio modelled after the UK's Home Office, as well as a new Office of National Intelligence. [ + ]

The nbn's fixed wireless rollout is continuing at a fast pace, with an extra 45 towers due to have been deployed across June and July, while retail nbn satellite providers have agreed to raise allocations at little extra cost. [ + ]

Smart water meter company WaterGroup has announced a partnership to connect its IoT smart meters to the fast-growing Australian Sigfox LPWA network under deployment by Thinxtra. [ + ]

Data centre operator Equinix will spend $54.3m to double the rack capacity of the SY4, the company's fourth and newest facility in Sydney. [ + ]

Gartner expects IT spending in Australia to reach $83.1bn this year, driven by strong growth in enterprise software spending. [ + ]

CSIRO's Data61 has teamed up with the Queensland government to establish Australia's first functional programming open lab in Brisbane. [ + ]

Internet neutrality and freedom of speech are under threat by Donald Trump's administration, according to a QUT academic. [ + ]

NordVPN says it will do all it can to continue providing access to VPNs for China's users, following reports that a ban will take effect next February. [ + ]

Overall satisfaction has decreased among telecommunications customers, according to a national survey by the Communications Alliance. [ + ]

Former nbn co CTO Gary McLaren has accused the company's current CEO, Bill Morrow, of falsely claiming that it has only recently decided to use its second satellite as anything other than a backup for the first. [ + ]

Victoria's Road Safety Camera Commissioner found that the WannaCry infection of the state's traffic cameras failed to encrypt data on the compromised systems and did not affect the integrity of recorded infringements. [ + ]

According to new SOTI research, around 40% of Australian businesses are not investing in mobile technology. [ + ]

The global PC market is on track to continue its decline in 2017 in terms of unit shipments, but will return to growth from 2018. [ + ]

Australia will always be one of the most expensive countries in which to connect with FTTP due to its low population density, according to nbn co's network engineering chief, Peter Ryan. [ + ]

The ATO has stressed that yesterday's brief disruption to its online services was not connected with the HPE SAN system failure that triggered the high-profile outages in December and February. [ + ]