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Updated: 29 October 2026, 9:24 am AEDT (Sydney) Apple has announced an M6-powered 14-inch MacBook Pro starting at A$3,199 including GST in Australia, with preorders scheduled to begin on Thursday, 29 October, and retail availability from Friday, 6 November. The company’s Australian announcement, dated 28 October , lists a starting education price of A$3,039 including GST. The laptop will be offered in silver and space black, with deliveries and sales through Apple stores and authorised resellers due from 6 November. The M6 configuration includes a 12-core CPU, a 12-core graphics processor and 16GB of unified memory as standard, configurable up to 32GB. Apple also lists Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and three Thunderbolt 4 ports, alongside HDMI, an SDXC card slot and MagSafe charging. Apple claims up to 24 hours of battery life and improved graphics and AI performance over the M5 model. These are manufacturer test claims, rather than results of independent testing for this report. Australian pub...

Updated: 22 October 2026, 06:21 AEDT Australian website operators are being urged to check and update PHP after two critical software vulnerabilities triggered an international security response on Wednesday, 21 October. ABC reported that the Australian Signals Directorate said cyber.gov.au and other Australian government websites had experienced outages in connection with the issue. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s 21 October alert says the flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and known as “php2shell”, can let an attacker run code remotely without authenticating. It says PHP installations serving web requests are affected. CISA identifies PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 as the updated versions that fix the vulnerabilities. It urges organisations to inventory their PHP systems and prioritise patching those exposed to the internet. For systems that cannot be updated immediately, including unsupported PHP 8.1 or earlier versions, the agenc...