How to reset an Apple Watch: force restart, unpair, or full erase
Your Apple Watch is frozen on the Apple logo, you have forgotten your passcode, or you are about to sell it on Gumtree. The fix depends on which of those is true, and picking the wrong reset method can leave your data exposed or your watch locked to your Apple Account.
Enterprise
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Chalmers makes $20,000 asset write-off permanent, lifts VCLP cap to $480m
Treasurer Jim Chalmers' 2026–27 federal budget delivers a permanent instant asset write-off and expanded venture capital incentives for Australian technology startups, but capital gains tax reforms that raise the effective rate on long-held equity have drawn sharp criticism from founders and investors.
Smokeball, Macquarie Cloud Services named Australia's best tech workplaces for 2026
Legal software firm Smokeball led the medium-to-large category in the 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology rankings, with Macquarie Cloud Services and A1 Technologies topping the small and micro categories respectively. The list, compiled from 25,000 employee surveys, reflects an AI-fuelled competition for talent.
SiteMinder slides 6% as SaaS sell-off sweeps ASX tech stocks
SiteMinder shares fell to A$2.96 despite rising revenue and EBITDA doubling, caught in a broader rotation away from high-growth technology names.
OneDrive's Australian enterprise lock-in: pricing, privacy, and the Copilot tax
Microsoft 365 Personal costs $AU159/year in Australia with 1TB of OneDrive storage. But the platform's lack of zero-knowledge encryption and the cost of Copilot integration raise hard questions for enterprise IT buyers.
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Cybersecurity
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Instructure reaches deal with ShinyHunters as Canvas breach hits Australian universities
The company behind the Canvas learning platform says stolen data has been returned and destroyed, but declines to say whether any payment was made.
Australia's $7.5B cybersecurity market: scale vs local split
Enterprises will spend AU$7.5B on cybersecurity in 2026. Global platforms dominate yet consolidation splits the market between scale and local sovereign accountability.
CTV ad fraud surges 140 per cent as AI-powered schemes spread globally
Connected TV fraud schemes jumped 140 per cent in the March quarter, with AI-powered bot attacks and data centre traffic costing advertisers US$1.8 million per billion unprotected impressions, according to new research from DoubleVerify.
ShinyHunters claim 275 million Canvas LMS records, set 12 May leak deadline
The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it has stolen 275 million records from Instructure's Canvas learning platform, naming Australia among affected regions. The vendor has confirmed an intrusion of its Salesforce environment, the second by the same actor in eight months, with a 12 May leak deadline.
