News
Featured Article : Government Plans Major Expansion Of Facial Recognition
10 December 2025The government has set out plans to expand the use of facial recognition and other biometrics across UK policing, describing it as the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. A National Strategy For Biometrics The Home Office has launched a ten week consultation to establish a new legal […]
Tagged Facial Recognition, Government, policing, UK
Tech Insight : OpenAI Trains AI Models To Confess When They Break The Rules
10 December 2025OpenAI has developed a new research technique that trains advanced AI models to admit when they ignored instructions, took unintended shortcuts, or quietly breached the rules they were given. A New Approach To Detecting Hidden Misbehaviour OpenAI’s latest research introduces what it calls a “confession”, which is a second output […]
Tagged AI, AI Models, OpenAI, Rules
News : Bank of England Warns AI Valuations Could Trigger a Sharp Market Correction
10 December 2025The Bank of England has warned that the rapid rise in artificial intelligence focused technology stocks has created clear financial stability risks and could lead to a sharp correction in global markets. AI Valuations Reach Their Most Stretched Levels In Years The Bank’s latest Financial Stability Report says equity valuations […]
Tagged AI, Bank of England, Market Correction, Valuations
News : Amazon Tests 30 Minute Deliveries
10 December 2025Amazon is piloting a new ultra fast delivery service that brings household essentials and fresh groceries to customers in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia in about 30 minutes or less. ‘Amazon Now’ And What It Offers ‘Amazon Now’ is a new delivery option built directly into the main Amazon app […]
Tagged Amazon, Deliveries, Tests
Company Check : Another Cloudflare Outage Raises Fresh Concerns
10 December 2025Cloudflare has suffered its second major service outage in less than a month, briefly taking a substantial portion of the internet offline and prompting renewed questions about the resilience of the infrastructure many organisations now rely on. Friday 5 December Outage This latest incident occurred on Friday 5 December, when […]
Tagged Cloudflare, Outage
Security Stop-Press: Scam Ads Reported On YouTube As Fraudsters Exploit Ad Slots
10 December 2025Users in several countries say they are seeing a rise in misleading adverts on YouTube, including fake government schemes, miracle health claims, inappropriate content and AI-generated promotions that lead to suspicious websites. Many of the ads redirect to imitation news pages or fake portals designed to collect personal information or […]
Tagged Ads, Scam, Security, YouTube
Sustainability-In-Tech : Why Green Hydrogen’s Global Rollout Is Struggling
10 December 2025Green hydrogen was expected to become one of the most important clean fuels for decarbonising heavy industry, yet many projects across Europe, the United States and Australia are now slowing, shrinking or being cancelled altogether. What Is Green Hydrogen? Green hydrogen is produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen […]
Tagged Green Hydrogen, Rollout, sustainability
Tech Tip: Use Outlook’s “Groups” (Contact Groups) to Email Faster
10 December 2025Did you know you can bundle any set of contacts into a single group and send a message to everyone with just one address? It’s a huge time‑saver and eliminates the risk of forgetting a recipient. How to create a group – Desktop (Outlook 365) – Switch to People (the icon […]
Tagged Email, Groups, Outlook
Featured Article : Major Insurers Say AI Is Too Risky to Cover
4 December 2025Insurers on both sides of the Atlantic are warning that artificial intelligence may now be too unpredictable to insure, raising concerns about the financial fallout if widely used models fail at scale. Anxiety As recently reported in the Financial Times, it seems that anxiety across the insurance sector has grown […]
Tagged AI, Insurance
Tech Insight : Microsoft Launches Fara-7B, Its New On-Device AI Computer Agent
4 December 2025Microsoft has announced Fara-7B, a new “agentic” small language model built to run directly on a PC and carry out tasks on screen, marking a significant move towards practical AI agents that can operate computers rather than simply generate text. What Is Fara-7B? Fara-7B is Microsoft’s first computer-use small language […]
Tagged AI, Computer Agent, Fara-7B, Microsoft
News : GDS Local Launched To Link National And Local Services
4 December 2025A new GDS Local unit has been launched to give residents simpler, consistent access to both national and local government services through a single digital system. What the Government Has Announced On 22 November 2025, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) unveiled GDS Local, a dedicated team within […]
Tagged GDS, Local, National, Services
News : Microsoft Copilot To Leave WhatsApp In January 2026
4 December 2025Microsoft has announced that its Copilot chatbot will stop working on WhatsApp on 15 January 2026 after WhatsApp introduces its new restrictions on third party AI assistants. Why Copilot Was On WhatsApp In The First Place Copilot was launched on WhatsApp in late 2024 as part of Microsoft’s wider effort […]
Tagged Copilot, Microsoft, WhatsApp