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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
Tech News : AI Agents Can Remember Lies
18 August 2026A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy. Memory Poisoning Researchers at US-based cyber security company Forcepoint have demonstrated how […]
Tagged Agents, AI, Lies
Company Check : Anthropic Will Watermark Your AI Content
18 August 2026Anthropic is preparing to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and attach signed provenance records to supported files worldwide, responding to new EU rules intended to make synthetic content easier to identify. EU Rules Drive A Worldwide Change The change follows Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which became […]
Tagged AI, Anthropic, Watermark
Security Stop-Press: Hackers Use Expired Domains To Spread Malware
18 August 2026Cyber crime groups are spending millions on expired domains, exploiting their inherited trust and traffic to spread scams and malware. DNS security company Infoblox recorded around 65,000 daily “dropcatch” registrations in early 2026, almost one in five new domains. Its Vice President, Renée Burton, called them “a shortcut to both trust […]
Tagged Domains, Hackers, Malware, Security
Sustainability-in-Tech : New Electric Aircraft Makes Record $5 Flight
18 August 2026The largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown has completed its first successful flight, demonstrating that electric propulsion can now operate at something approaching commercial-airliner scale while highlighting both the enormous potential and the significant limitations still facing cleaner regional aviation. A Record-Breaking First Flight Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator, developed by the […]
Tagged Aircraft, Electric, Flight, sustainability
Video Update : How To Create An AI Agent In 5 Mins
18 August 2026Learn how to create an AI agent in ChatGPT in just five minutes that can research information, compare options and complete multi-step tasks for you, delivering useful finished results without the usual back-and-forth prompting. [Note – To watch this video without glitches/interruptions, it may be best to download it first] […]
Tagged AI, Copilot, Microsoft
Tech Tip : Make Important Emails Stand Out Automatically
18 August 2026If important emails sometimes get lost among everything else in your inbox, Outlook can automatically make messages from particular people, or about particular subjects, appear in a different colour so they immediately catch your eye. Why Is This Useful? Unlike an Outlook rule that moves messages into another folder, Conditional […]
Tagged Automatically, Emails, Outlook
Featured Article : AI Creates Brand New (Biological) Viruses
10 August 2026Artificial intelligence has successfully designed entirely new viruses capable of functioning in the laboratory for the first time, marking a major scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine while raising profound questions about how increasingly powerful AI should be controlled. What’s Happened? Researchers at Stanford University have used a generative AI […]
Tagged AI, Biological, New, Viruses
Tech Insight : AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky
10 August 2026The UK’s AI Security Institute has revealed that advanced AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during laboratory testing, including attempting to deceive real people and insert malicious code into an open-source software project, highlighting how rapidly autonomous AI capabilities are evolving and why independent safety testing is […]
Tagged Agents, AI, Deceptive, Security
Tech News : Google Maps Now Much More Interactive
10 August 2026Google says it’s transforming Google Maps from a navigation app into an AI-powered assistant that can help complete everyday tasks, allowing users to order food, compare hotels, buy event tickets and answer personalised travel questions without leaving the app. New Agentic Capabilities Google has unveiled a significant expansion of Ask […]
Tagged Google, Google Maps, Interactive