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Australia is the equal fifth most targeted nation in the APAC region between July 2022 and June 2023, when assessing security considerations like nation-state activity, cybercrime, and other cyber-attacks, according to the fourth annual Microsoft Digital Defense report.

COMPANY NEWS:  Empower teams across organisations to collaborate, create, and share AI-driven analytics, apps, and automations for any business, development, security, or operations use case

We curate several monthly, best laptop lists over at High Performance Laptops. Here's a summary of the updated October rankings for the top gaming, ultraportable, business and overall best laptops in Australia in October, 2023.

GUEST OPINION: In a recent online video, Mark, a seasoned IT consultant who calls himself The Cloud Geezer, shared his discovery about the 'free' cross-tenant migration tool from Microsoft. He discovered that it's not free.

The Microsoft Edge Secure Network VPN service uses Cloudflare's Privacy Proxy, the latter company has revealed.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies today announced the availability of Dell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft, a new fully integrated turnkey system developed in collaboration with Microsoft that extends the Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud experience to data centre and edge environments.

Microsoft has moved a step closer to completing its acquisition with games company Activision Blizzard after the British regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, said a revised offer made by Redmond addressed concerns it had about the deal.

Microsoft's security reputation has taken another beating, with the company releasing a number of plans for its Xbox gaming platform along with public documents submitted to the court adjudicating a case filed by the FTC over its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard.

Intel Core Ultra processors – code named Meteor Lake – will be launched on 14 December 2023, "ushering in a new age of the AI PC," according to CEO Pat Gelsinger.

AI researchers at Microsoft accidentally exposed 38TB of private data while in the process of sending live a bucket containing open-source training data, the cloud security company Wiz.io claims.

Deutsche Telekom in collaboration with Microsoft has launched the Campus Network Smart solution, a private 5G campus networks following a successful pilot with a pharmaceutical company in Germany.

AGL, Data#3, Bupa, NAB, Powerlink Queensland, Rest Super and Suncorp are among the first Australian companies to trial Microsoft 365 Copilot.

COMPANY NEWS: ConnectWise, one of the world’s leading software companies dedicated to the success of IT solution providers (TSPs), is pleased to announce that ConnectWise MDR will be integrated with Microsoft's small and medium business focused security solutions.

Microsoft and Oracle expand their partnership to provide Oracle Database@Azure, providing direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, deployed in Microsoft Azure data centres.

Remote monitoring technology provider Kallipr is set to join the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) in the United States.

COMPANY NEWS:  The company appointed the first Leapwork partner in Australia. Leading advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra Limited (ASX: ATA) today announced a strategic partnership with Leapwork, the visual, AI-powered test automation platform, marking a significant milestone in Atturra's support for managing automation and client workflow processes in Microsoft environments.

US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday.

Microsoft has issued patches for 61 vulnerabilities on its monthly Patch Tuesday, with two zero-days among them.

In what can only be described as poor-quality spin, the US Government"s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has made much of the fact that former hacker Mudge will be joining the agency in a part-time capacity. [The word hacker is used here in its original meaning: someone who plays around with code.]

Cloud security company Wiz.io says there are many unanswered questions raised by Microsoft's final report into a breach of its Azure cloud platform, pointing out that the threat actor, given the name Storm-0558, may have been forging authentication tokens for more than two years given the timeline in the report.