Australian fintech innovation hub Stone & Chalk is partnering with the South Australian Government to establish a start-up hub at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct on the seven-hectare former Royal Adelaide Hospital site.

PhD students from Curtin University in Western Australia will travel to France to collaborate on defence research under a partnership agreement with French research institute Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Bretange.

Researchers at the security firm McAfee claim to have found a new threat to companies dealing in the nuclear, defence, energy and financial sectors, which they have named Operation Sharpshooter. It works only on Windows.