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Featured Article : World’s First $5 Trillion Company
Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries. Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter? Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics […]
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Tech Insight : Brands Pay To Be Recommended By AI, Not Google
The Prompting Company has raised $6.5 million to help businesses get mentioned in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, signalling a major shift in how people now discover products online. Who Is The Prompting Company? The Prompting Company is a young, Y Combinator-backed startup (Y Combinator is […]
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News : Microsoft Accusedly Misleads Over Copilot Prices
Australian regulators have taken Microsoft to court, alleging the company misled around 2.7 million Microsoft 365 users by implying they had to accept a higher-priced AI-powered plan or cancel altogether, while failing to reveal a cheaper alternative that was still available. What Happened and Why? The case focuses on Microsoft’s […]
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News : WhatsApp Introduces Passkey-Encrypted Backups
WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups, thereby letting users protect and recover their chat history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen lock instead of remembering a long password or storing a 64-digit recovery key. A Major Step in WhatsApp’s Encryption Journey WhatsApp has announced a new feature that allows […]
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Company Check : OpenAI Completes Shift Into For-Profit Company
OpenAI has now finished converting itself into a for-profit public benefit corporation, while keeping a mission-led foundation on top, in what may be the most important restructuring so far in the commercial AI race. Started As Non-Profit OpenAI was originally founded (back in 2015) as a non-profit research lab with […]
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Security Stop-Press: New AI Security Researcher ‘Aardvark’
OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes […]
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Sustainability-In-Tech : Europe’s First Underground Mine Data Centre
Europe’s first full-scale data centre built inside a working mine in northern Italy is being hailed as a landmark in sustainable digital infrastructure, combining high-performance computing with energy efficiency and circular use of underground space. Who’s Behind the Project and Where Is It? The project, known as Trentino DataMine, is […]
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Video Update : Make ‘Podcasts’ Directly In OneDrive
Incredibly, you can now make AI generated podcasts (one or two ‘presenters’) directly within your OneDrive account, so if your preferred learning style (or that of your audience) is auditory, this is a powerful way to present information … effortlessly! [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may […]
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Tech Tip – Boost Productivity with Outlook’s Email Highlighting Features
When you highlight text in an email in Outlook, you’ll notice the Mini Toolbar appears above the highlighted text, and when you right-click, you’ll see additional options that let you leverage powerful features to streamline your workflow, including: – Explain in more detail: Get more information on the highlighted text […]
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AI-Generated Code Blamed for 1-in-5 Breaches
A new report has revealed that AI-written code is already responsible for a significant share of security incidents, with one in five organisations suffering a major breach linked directly to code produced by generative AI tools. Vulnerabilities Found in AI Code The finding comes from cybersecurity company Aikido Security’s State […]
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Amazon AWS … What Happened?
Amazon Web Services has issued a full apology and technical explanation after a 15-hour outage in its North Virginia data region took thousands of major platforms offline, exposing the internet’s heavy dependence on a handful of US cloud providers. What Happened? The incident began late on Sunday 19 October, when […]
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Clippy Returns To Life As ‘Mico’
Microsoft has introduced “Mico”, a new animated avatar for its Copilot assistant that can be transformed into the classic Clippy paper clip, a light-hearted feature that sits within a much wider update focused on making AI more personal, expressive, and easier to use across Microsoft’s ecosystem. What Microsoft Is Launching […]
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