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Featured Article : Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that no company would escape the impact of an AI bubble bursting, just as concerns about unsustainable valuations are resurfacing and Nvidia’s long-running rally shows signs of slowing. Pichai Raises The Alarm In a recent BBC interview, Pichai described the current phase of AI […]
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Tech Insight : Magnetic Tape Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era
Magnetic tape is experiencing a resurgence in 2025 as AI-driven data growth, cyber security pressures and new material innovations push organisations back towards a technology first introduced more than seventy years ago. What Magnetic Tape Is And How It Works Magnetic tape stores data on a long, narrow strip of […]
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News : Sanctions For “Bulletproof” Hosting Firm
The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have jointly sanctioned Russian web hosting company Media Land and several related firms, alleging that the group provided resilient infrastructure used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. Coordinated Action Against a Cross Border Threat The announcements were made on 19 November by the […]
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News : Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024
Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024. How The Discovery Happened The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the […]
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Company Check : Cloudflare Outage Was NOT a Cyber Attack
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has clarified that its recent global outage was caused by an internal configuration error and a latent software flaw rather than any form of cyber attack. A Major Disruption Across Large Parts Of The Internet The outage of internet infrastructure company Cloudflare began at around 11:20 […]
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Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers
Researchers have uncovered a privacy weakness in WhatsApp that allowed the confirmation of 3.5 billion active accounts simply by checking phone numbers. A team from the University of Vienna and SBA Research found that WhatsApp’s contact discovery system could be queried at high speed, letting them generate and test 63 […]
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Sustainability-In-Tech : Powering AI Data Centres Using Hot Rocks
Exowatt, a Sam Altman-backed energy startup, plans to revolutionise AI data centre energy consumption by harnessing the power of concentrated solar energy stored in high-temperature hot rocks to provide round-the-clock, dispatchable electricity. A Viable Alternative to Traditional Grid-Based Power? Co-founded by Hannan Happi, who has a background in energy innovation […]
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Video Update : Collaborate (Directly) In TEAMS Chats With Copilot
You can now take your TEAMS chats to the next level by inviting Microsoft Copilot to the chat. You now have all the power of the AI at your fingertips, without having to leave a TEAMS chat and you can collaborate like never before … fascinating stuff ! [Note – […]
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Tech Tip – Read Emails with Immersive Reader in Outlook
Did you know you can turn any message into a dyslexia‑friendly view that reads it aloud and even translates it on the fly? It’s perfect for listening to long emails while you’re busy with something else. To read an email with Immersive Reader: – Open the email you want to […]
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Featured Article : AI Assistants Write Your Prompts And Do Your Shopping For You
Two new launches from Hero and Google show how everyday digital tasks are moving towards full automation, with prompt writing and online shopping now handled largely by AI rather than users. A Clear Move Towards Automated Digital Tasks AI tools have become familiar, yet many still require people to know […]
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Tech Insight : How Data Centre Investment Just Overtook Oil
Global investment now favours data centres over new oil supplies, reflecting the scale of electricity demand created by AI and the increasing importance of digital infrastructure to national economies. Data Spending Overtakes Oil For The First Time The International Energy Agency has reported that global spending on data centres will […]
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News : Google AI Tools Let Anyone Build Interactive Map Projects
Google has introduced a new set of AI tools that allow developers and non-technical users to build interactive map projects from simple text prompts, marking one of the biggest upgrades to Google Maps Platform in years. AI Agents Designed To Build Projects, Not Just Maps Google Maps has long been […]
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