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Tech News : Chancellor Backs UK AI Sovereignty
Former Chancellor Rachel Reeves (now replaced by John Healey) has declared that the UK needs “a serious plan on AI sovereignty”, using her recent Mansion House speech to position artificial intelligence as a strategic national priority for economic growth, national security and Britain’s long-term competitiveness. What Has Been Announced? Although the […]
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Company Check : HP Fined Over Government Tender Rigging
HP India has been fined almost 1.39 billion Indian rupees (around £12 million) by India’s Competition Commission after a lengthy investigation concluded that it coordinated with resellers to manipulate bidding in government technology procurement, in one of the most significant competition law cases involving the IT sector in recent years. […]
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Security Stop-Press : OpenAI Confirms GPT-5.6 File Deletion Risk
OpenAI has confirmed that its GPT-5.6 coding model can, in rare cases, delete users’ files without permission after developers reported unexpected data loss while using the AI agent. The company says the issue mainly occurs when GPT-5.6 Sol runs in Full-Access mode without safeguards such as sandboxing or Auto-review. It […]
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Sustainability-In-Tech : Australia Tells AI Data Centres To Generate Their Own Power
Australia is proposing new national rules that would make the next generation of large AI data centres build enough new electricity generation to match the power they consume, helping prevent rapid AI expansion from pushing up household bills or placing extra pressure on the country’s grid. What Has Been Announced? […]
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Video Update : ChatGPT Is Now A Super App
ChatGPT’s new Work tab acts like a business-focused super app, handling complex, multi-step tasks in the background so you can get on with other work and return to a finished, reviewable result. [Note – To watch this video without glitches/interruptions, it may be best to download it first]
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Tech Tip : Instantly Find Microsoft Office Commands
If you can’t remember where a command is in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, Microsoft Office includes a built-in Search feature that can take you straight to it in seconds, saving you from hunting through menus and Ribbon tabs. This can be particularly useful when using features you don’t access very […]
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Featured Article : New EU Cars Must Now Watch The Driver
From 7 July 2026, every newly manufactured passenger car and van sold in the European Union must include a new generation of advanced safety systems, including technology that monitors whether drivers are paying attention to the road, marking another significant step towards vehicles that actively watch over both their occupants […]
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Tech Insight : 50% Of Parents Fear Children Too AI Dependent
Half of parents are concerned that their children rely too heavily on artificial intelligence for schoolwork, according to a new Deloitte survey, highlighting growing uncertainty over how schools should prepare young people for an AI-powered future without weakening the thinking and problem-solving skills education is intended to develop. What Did […]
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Tech News : Google Now Labels AI-Made Ads
Google is introducing new labels that tell users when advertisements have been created or edited using generative artificial intelligence, marking an important step towards greater transparency as AI-generated marketing becomes increasingly realistic and more difficult to distinguish from traditional advertising. What Has Google Changed? The new feature adds a “How […]
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Tech News : ChatGPT Learns To Talk Naturally
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new voice system that allows ChatGPT to listen and speak at the same time, making conversations feel much more natural while laying the foundations for a future in which talking to AI could become more common than typing. A New Way To Talk To AI […]
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Company Check : Amazon Takes On Starlink
Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial broadband services later this year, marking the point at which its long-awaited satellite internet network moves from development into operation and giving businesses, governments and consumers the prospect of meaningful competition to SpaceX’s Starlink. Reaching The Starting Line […]
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Security Stop-Press : GitHub Copilot Safety Bypassed
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot can be persuaded to generate harmful content it would normally refuse by disguising malicious requests within a normal coding workflow. Instead of asking directly, the researchers split harmful requests into a series of routine development tasks. While Copilot refused […]
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