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New capture and playback solution with 3G-SDI, HDMI and analog connections for USB4 and Thunderbolt computers! Blackmagic Design today announced the new UltraStudio Express HD, a compact high-speed capture and playback solution for Mac, Windows and Linux computers with USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 connections. With both digital and analog connections, it's perfect for archiving from old broadcast decks, or for editing with DaVinci Resolve.

For 16 years Apple told us touchscreen laptops were a bad idea. Then, on 29 October 2026, it launched one. The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display comes in 14- and 16-inch sizes. It pairs a tandem OLED panel with touch built directly into the display, adds the Dynamic Island to the Mac, and runs the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips as before. Pre-orders opened on 29 October at apple.com/au, and the first machines arrive on Friday 6 November.

COMPANY NEWS: SAP announced the planned deployment of SAP-RPT, a tabular AI foundation model, on HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), one of the most significant edge-compute validations of an enterprise AI model to date. Space is unforgiving. Vacuum, radiation, orbital debris, and solar storms can produce mission-critical crises at any moment.

When a market faces a talent shortage, companies don't just have to work harder to find the right person. They need to hire fast, stay flexible, and do it without taking on unnecessary legal risk. In Australia, the job market isn't as heated as it was two years ago. Jobs and Skills Australia's 2025 data, for instance, shows software engineering has come off the national shortage list for the first time since it started tracking it.

New capabilities will alert organizations to identity risks across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta, identify Tier 0 exposure, and provide a guided path to remediation Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), delivering continuous recovery for the AI era, today announced new identity resilience capabilities that will help organizations discover changes across a wide range of identity environments, understand their Tier 0 exposure, and quickly remediate associated risks.

COMPANY NEWS: Next-generation Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator 200 (MHO 200) quadruples hyperscale capacity with 400GbE ports, so organizations can secure AI traffic without slowing it down Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Guest Articles / Guest Research SailPoint | Published 30 Oct 2026 Guest Research GUEST RESEARCH: New research reveals autonomous AI agents are operating without supervision in 95% of APAC organisations that have deployed them.

Guest Articles / Company News HID | Published 30 Oct 2026 Company News COMPANY NEWS: Awards recognise HID's leadership in mobile access innovation and sustainable access control modernisation HID, a global leader in trusted identity and access control solutions, has received two national security industry awards recognising its contribution to access control modernisation.

It People News / People Moves Barracuda Networks | Published 30 Oct 2026 Dan Fletcher as Chief Financial Officer at Barracuda Accomplished Finance Executive Brings Deep Expertise Scaling Businesses, Driving Transformation, and Creating Long-Term Value News highlights: Dan Fletcher appointed Chief Financial Officer of Barracuda. Proven track record driving business growth and transformation.

Oracle and Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) today announced that Snowflake AI Data Cloud will be available as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), further expanding the AI and data capabilities Oracle offers to help organizations accelerate enterprise AI initiatives.