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- Phones
Siri will be able to read your text messages as Apple ramps up AI push
Upcoming revamp gives Siri Google-like abilities to search the web and read data from your messages, but with Apple’s privacy-first approach.
- Tim Biggs
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What you need to know about VPNs in 2026
Uptake of virtual private networks is booming in response to age verification checks on social media platforms and porn websites. How does it work, and is it legal?
- Tim Biggs
Digital legacy: How to make sure your family is not locked out
Security keeps people out of our documents, photos, financials, and secrets. How do you make sure family can access them if you die?
- Tim Biggs
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- Companies
Atlassian billionaire boss, now solo, faces his biggest test yet
After axing 1600 staff and watching the software giant’s shares collapse, the Atlassian co-founder arrives in California with his biggest product launch in years.
- David Swan
- Analysis
- Analysis
A 40-year-old storage company just beat Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Atlassian
Atlassian posted its strongest quarter ever, then got kicked out of the Nasdaq 100. The market has stopped rewarding software and started paying for storage.
- David Swan and Nick Bonyhady
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- Jobs
From cafes to real estate, AI is giving businesses a boost – and leaving others in the dust
The new tech is proving a leg-up to those firms prepared to use it, but staff think their skills will keep them in a job.
- Shane Wright
The five buzziest AI office tools, and what they do
From your own personal executive assistant to a way to access all chatbots in the one app, here are five of the fastest-growing AI tools.
- Tim Biggs
- Analysis
- Courts
‘It’s the vibe’: Court brawl hinges on alleged industrial-scale data hack
Was it industrial espionage on a massive scale, or is an Australian property data giant just hiding behind a case inspired by ‘The Castle’ in this bruising legal battle?
- Colin Kruger
Inside Canva’s $100 billion gamble on an AI-first rebuild
Melanie Perkins pitched the idea in 2011 and was knocked back by 100 investors. Fifteen years later, Canva is finally building it.
- David Swan
The widow of ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ targeted in hunt for $1.7 billion
Mike Lynch died alongside his daughter and five others when his superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in 2024. Now a tech giant has zeroed in on his widow.
- Matthew Field