tech.sydneyhttps://tech.sydney/Tech news from Sydney, Australia and the worlden-auFake job interview opened the door to the US$6.3 billion Binance heisthttps://tech.sydney/story/binance-6-3-billion-heist/https://tech.sydney/story/binance-6-3-billion-heist/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTCyberAttackers spent months inside developers' machines before draining hot wallets in minutes. The FBI blames North Korea.Canva restructures 1,271 roles as growth slows for the first time in a decadehttps://tech.sydney/story/canva-restructures-1271-roles/https://tech.sydney/story/canva-restructures-1271-roles/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTStartupsThe Sydney-founded design company is merging its product, growth and platform teams and cutting or relocating about 22% of its workforce.Australia's deep tech funding drought may be breakinghttps://tech.sydney/story/deep-tech-funding-drought-easing/https://tech.sydney/story/deep-tech-funding-drought-easing/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTStartupsSpace, defence, quantum and robotics startups landed big seed rounds in recent weeks, as local VCs close record funds.Police investigate 'major' cyber incident at NSW Health dental scheme websitehttps://tech.sydney/story/nsw-health-oral-health-website-breach/https://tech.sydney/story/nsw-health-oral-health-website-breach/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTCyberAbout 4GB of data, mostly details of private dentists, is believed to have been taken from an isolated server. NSW Health says no patient data was compromised.Cheap Android TV boxes in Sydney and other Australian cities were part of a 1.3 million-device botnethttps://tech.sydney/story/videostrong-botnet-android-tv-boxes/https://tech.sydney/story/videostrong-botnet-android-tv-boxes/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTGadgetsGoogle researchers say a Chinese manufacturer built a backdoor into its firmware and sold access to criminals.Defence says its AI adoption has hit 'absolute acceleration'https://tech.sydney/story/defence-ai-absolute-acceleration/https://tech.sydney/story/defence-ai-absolute-acceleration/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPolicyThe department's new chief AI officer told a parliamentary committee he favours strong open-source models paired with well-built connections to Defence systems.Westpac says AI cut a data warehouse migration from $70m to $35mhttps://tech.sydney/story/westpac-ai-halves-data-migration-cost/https://tech.sydney/story/westpac-ai-halves-data-migration-cost/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIThe bank moved its legacy St.George data warehouse to its Azure-based platform more than two years ahead of schedule.Apple finally puts touch on the Mac: MacBook Pro with OLED arrives from A$4,599https://tech.sydney/story/apple-touchscreen-macbook-pro-australia/https://tech.sydney/story/apple-touchscreen-macbook-pro-australia/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGadgetsThe 14- and 16-inch models use M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, a tandem OLED touchscreen and a Dynamic Island. First deliveries are due 6 November.ASIC questions bankers after AI data centre operator Firmus pulls its IPOhttps://tech.sydney/story/asic-firmus-failed-ipo/https://tech.sydney/story/asic-firmus-failed-ipo/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloudThe float would have been the second-largest IPO in Australian history. It collapsed on 9 October for lack of investor support.Defence reportedly orders a move away from VMwarehttps://tech.sydney/story/defence-moving-off-vmware/https://tech.sydney/story/defence-moving-off-vmware/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloudAn internal mandate is said to cover every part of the department that uses VMware, as licensing costs climb under Broadcom.Telstra puts an AI agent to work checking bills across 272,000 migrationshttps://tech.sydney/story/telstra-ai-agent-billing-migrations/https://tech.sydney/story/telstra-ai-agent-billing-migrations/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIBuilt with Microsoft's new AI consulting unit, the agent flags mismatches between old and new billing systems for staff to review.AI agents now start more than 40% of pull requests on GitHubhttps://tech.sydney/story/github-octoverse-agents-40-percent-prs/https://tech.sydney/story/github-octoverse-agents-40-percent-prs/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIGitHub's 2026 Octoverse report counts a record 17.9 billion pushes, more than 2024 and 2025 combined.ASD says AI is now the 'defining force' in Australia's cyber threat landscapehttps://tech.sydney/story/asd-cyber-threat-report-ai/https://tech.sydney/story/asd-cyber-threat-report-ai/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCyberThe Signals Directorate issued more than 4,400 warnings about potentially malicious activity in a year, up 80%.Cloudflare discloses a bug that leaked AI responses between customershttps://tech.sydney/story/cloudflare-workers-ai-kv-cache-exposure/https://tech.sydney/story/cloudflare-workers-ai-kv-cache-exposure/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloudOver 13 days, 155 responses from one Workers AI model contained data from other users' requests. Cloudflare and the SGLang project have fixed the cause.Sydney's MP Space raises $23 million to build batteries for satelliteshttps://tech.sydney/story/mp-space-raises-23m-seed/https://tech.sydney/story/mp-space-raises-23m-seed/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTStartupsFounded by two former Tesla engineers in 2024, the startup says it has orders covering more than 500 spacecraft.Anthropic files to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANThttps://tech.sydney/story/anthropic-files-for-ipo/https://tech.sydney/story/anthropic-files-for-ipo/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIThe Claude maker has submitted an S-1 registration statement. The number of shares and the price range have not been set.Big data breaches nearly tripled in the first half of 2026https://tech.sydney/story/oaic-notifiable-data-breaches-h1-2026/https://tech.sydney/story/oaic-notifiable-data-breaches-h1-2026/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPolicyThe OAIC received 667 breach notifications. The number of breaches affecting more than a million people rose from four to 11.OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra targets fast, cheap computer usehttps://tech.sydney/story/openai-gpt-6-1-terra/https://tech.sydney/story/openai-gpt-6-1-terra/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIThe model can see a screen and act across apps, and costs half as much as the version it replaces.'PHP2shell': decade-old flaws put a large share of the web at riskhttps://tech.sydney/story/php2shell-flaw-breach-warning/https://tech.sydney/story/php2shell-flaw-breach-warning/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCyberThe PHP Foundation shipped a fix on 22 October. Troy Hunt warned Australians should expect more data breaches as attackers move faster than patches.Hackers turned French supermarket fridges into ovenshttps://tech.sydney/story/french-supermarket-fridges-hacked/https://tech.sydney/story/french-supermarket-fridges-hacked/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCyberMore than 500 stores were hit overnight, with fridges and freezers pushed as high as 50°C through internet-connected refrigeration controllers.Government wants AI companies to prove their safety systems workhttps://tech.sydney/story/ai-companies-must-prove-safety-charlton/https://tech.sydney/story/ai-companies-must-prove-safety-charlton/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPolicyIn a Sydney speech, Andrew Charlton outlined a model borrowed from banking and aviation, with frontier AI standards due by the end of 2026.Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre lease, in Queensland's Western Downshttps://tech.sydney/story/anthropic-western-downs-data-centre/https://tech.sydney/story/anthropic-western-downs-data-centre/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloudThe $31.9 billion campus near Dalby is planned at 1.44GW of IT capacity, subject to FIRB approval.