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A major global Microsoft outage is continuing to disrupt Outlook and Teams services in Australia more than six hours after problems began.
The Australian Federal Police and domestic spy agency ASIO are among those affected.
More than 5,500 Australians reported problems accessing Outlook emails this morning.
Microsoft says it has fixed the Teams outage in North America, but is still working to restore services elsewhere.
Cyber Security Minister Tony Burke says Microsoft believes a faulty software update is to blame rather than a cyberattack.
"The perspective of Microsoft at this stage, they do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event. They believe that they're dealing in some ways similar to what we saw with respect to CrowdStrike, where there is an, an update that has gone awry. Secondly, in terms of the impact so far, is very much on email systems. One of the things that we had with CrowdStrike was we then had a whole lot of downstream impacts where it was affected the capability of a whole range of other products."
Four Sydney Swans players will not face criminal charges following a police investigation into a hotel room after-party.
Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, James Jordon, and former Swan Nick Blakey had been under investigation since August after three women reported sexual assaults to police.
Victoria Police say the investigation is now closed, with not enough evidence to lay charges.
The four players, along with Riley Bice, were earlier suspended for three games after the club found they had breached its standards of behaviour.
The Australian government is defending its climate record as it faces fresh criticism at United Nations climate talks in Türkiye.
Climate groups, Pacific nations, and First Nations communities are calling on Australia to move away from fossil fuels and take faster action on climate change.
Critics say the government is focusing too much on renewable energy targets, but Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen says Australia is working with other countries to cut emissions.
"We work to reduce emissions, uh, in our transport sector. We work with countries to reduce their emissions where we can help them. We've got, you know, key partnerships with countries to say, 'Yep, at the moment you're a big supplier, a big purchaser of Australian fossils. Let's work together on decarbonisation,' and we're going to do more on that."
US authorities say they have not decided whether a woman who had an affair with the former boss of tech giant NVIDIA was spying for China.
Jensen Huang resigned as CEO after reports emerged of his affair with Alice Huang, who is suspected of leaking information to Beijing.
China denies the allegations, while the US government is considering restrictions on computer chip exports to China.
US Attorney General Todd Blanche says the investigation is continuing and no conclusions have been reached.
Australia's Test captain, Pat Cummins, has denied knowing about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.
It follows claims by former teammate Usman Khawaja that the entire team knew about the plan.
"When he says, 'We all knew,' if by that he means that we knew sandpaper was going out in the field, he's 100% wrong. I've said that consistently for the last eight years. I did not know that was happening. But I think Usman actually says things that are actually far more serious than that. He says that I and others were architects of a scheme to ball tamper with sandpaper. That's complete and utter nonsense."
And that's SBS News in Easy English. I'm Hannah Hodson.
