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Featured Article : Turn Your Home WiFi Into A Security Motion Sensor
25 August 2026Comcast has begun turning compatible Xfinity home routers into camera-free motion detectors, showing how WiFi infrastructure can now do far more than connect devices while raising important questions about privacy, data use and intelligent buildings. What Has Comcast Launched? The new capability forms part of Xfinity Shield, a wider home-protection […]
Tagged Motion, Security, Sensor, WiFi
Tech Insight : OpenAI Makes Privacy A Competitive Advantage
25 August 2026OpenAI is turning data privacy into a competitive weapon, promising eligible business customers its frontier AI models can operate without retaining their prompts or responses, just as rival Anthropic is requiring 30-day retention for some frontier-model traffic. Zero Data Retention As A Selling Point The company has just previewed Private […]
Tagged Advantage, OpenAI, Privacy
Tech News : AI To Triage UK Police 101 Calls
25 August 2026UK police are beginning to use artificial intelligence to decide where non-emergency 101 calls should go before they reach a human operator, with a £1.4 million system designed to cut waiting times, reduce wasted police time and redirect millions of misdirected calls more efficiently. What Is Changing? The new Natural […]
Tagged AI, Calls, Police
Tech News : Amazon Expands Drone Delivery Sixfold
25 August 2026Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, while its only UK operation remains tightly restricted to around 100 deliveries a day, highlighting how quickly autonomous delivery can scale when technology, regulation and public acceptance move at […]
Tagged Amazon, Delivery, Drone
Company Check : Microsoft Combines Its Copilot Apps
25 August 2026Microsoft has combined its standalone consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a single updated Copilot experience, simplifying a confusing product line while making its AI assistant a more direct gateway into Word, Excel, Outlook and the rest of Microsoft 365. Why Were There Two Copilot Apps? For many […]
Tagged Apps, Copilot, Microsoft
Security Stop-Press : Expired Visa Cards Can Be Revived For Contactless Payments
25 August 2026Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have shown how some expired Visa cards could be manipulated to make contactless payments after they should have stopped working. The “Zombie Card” attack uses NFC relays to alter the expiry date seen by a payment terminal without breaking the card’s encryption. Researchers demonstrated payments […]
Tagged Cards, Payments, Security, Visa
Sustainability-In-Tech : How AI Could Help Planes Avoid Warming Contrails
25 August 2026Google and the UK government are launching a £5 million trial using artificial intelligence and advanced weather forecasting to help aircraft avoid the atmospheric conditions that create persistent warming contrails over the North Atlantic, potentially reducing part of aviation’s climate impact without changing the aircraft themselves. What Are Contrails And […]
Tagged AI, Contrails, Planes, sustainability
Video Update : How To Fix Your AI Tool In A Few Seconds
25 August 2026When Copilot suddenly glitches or stops behaving as it should, there’s a surprisingly quick way to get it working properly again in just a few seconds, as this week’s video update shows. https://player.mediadelivery.net/play/707308/d650fb13-8929-4840-8ec7-8d02f763e3dd
Tagged AI, Copilot, Tool
Tech Tip : Automatically Clear Out Repetitive Emails
25 August 2026If automated alerts or regular notifications gradually fill your Outlook inbox, Sweep can automatically clear out older messages from particular senders so you do not have to keep tidying them manually. Why Is This Useful? Sweep is particularly useful for emails where you normally only need the latest message, such as regular […]
Tagged Automatically, Emails, Outlook
Featured Article : AI Hacks Gym For Pilates Place
18 August 2026An AI assistant given the seemingly harmless job of securing its user a place in a popular Pilates class ended up exploiting weaknesses in the gym’s booking system and cancelling another customer’s reservation, providing a striking real-world example of what can happen when autonomous AI agents pursue a goal in […]
Tagged AI, Gym, Hacks
Tech Insight : How AI Can Make Cameras Look Away
18 August 2026Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated surveillance to […]
Tagged AI, Cameras
Tech News : YouTube Doubles Monetisation Threshold For Creators
18 August 2026YouTube is doubling the amount of viewing new creators need before they can earn advertising and subscription revenue, making it considerably harder to monetise a new channel as the platform looks to reward creators capable of building and maintaining substantial audiences. What Is Changing? From 1 February 2027, new creators […]
Tagged Creators, Monetisation, YouTube