iTnews Newsletter - Tuesday July 5, 2016

+ Aurizon's tech chief exits in restructure; Inside KPMG's mysterious AI-focused unit

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Tuesday July 5, 2016

EARLY EDITION

Editor's Note

Good morning,

The local arms of the world's big four audit firms are engaged in a fierce race to embed artificial intelligence and cognitive computing into the enterprise.

But is the present marketing push behind one major cognitive technology an aid or a distraction to the cause?

Today we outline exactly where KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and EY are placing their data science bets.

- Allie Coyne

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What's on Social Media

	SecuriTay @SwiftOnSecurity	Former head of Windows at Microsoft confirms what we all knew https://t.co/arhoEtmG3M

	Steven Sinofsky @stevesi	@SwiftOnSecurity Disable hibernate all the time.

	Steven Sinofsky @stevesi	@SwiftOnSecurity Goes far back! As cold-war college intern, standard practice was to disable IBM 3270 screen buffers! caches=surface area.

	Robert Dow @Robert_Dow	PT fact of the day: NSW Opal - From 1 August 2016, paper tickets will no longer be sold or accepted --> https://t.co/PA4pp5KI5E #ptfact

	Vitaly Nikolenko @vnik5287	VMware told me this bug wasn't exploitable and now they're "requesting" me not to release the exploit! https://t.co/tMyxoVIwzH

	Pete Cordell @petecordell	Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love

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Events


Event Name	Location	Date
2nd Annual Cloud Services in Local Government Summit	Novotel Darling Harbour	July 26, 2016
Information Management and Governance Forum 2016	Multiple venues, starting at Pan Pacific Perth	July 26, 2016
NV Innovate 2016 - Networking and Security Event	InterContinental Melbourne, The Rialto, Melbourne: City & inner suburbs (VIC)	July 28, 2016
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2016	Hilton Sydney, Sydney: City & inner suburbs (NSW)	August 22, 2016
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016	Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast (QLD)	October 24, 2016

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