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Company Check : How Bending Spoons Hit an $11 Billion Valuation in Just 48 Hours
4 December 2025Bending Spoons has completed one of the most dramatic 48-hour periods in recent European tech history after announcing an agreement to acquire AOL and revealing a $270 million funding round that has pushed its valuation from $2.55 billion to $11 billion. What is ‘Bending Spoons’? Bending Spoons is a Milan […]
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Security Stop-Press: Shadow AI Breaches Expected To Hit 40 Percent Of Enterprises By 2030
4 December 2025Gartner says 40 percent of enterprises will face a shadow AI related breach by 2030 as unapproved and unmanaged AI tools continue to spread across workplaces. Shadow AI covers any AI system or workflow used without formal oversight, such as employees putting company data into public models or teams deploying […]
Also posted in Security Tagged AI, Cyber Security
Sustainability-In-Tech : Old Smartphones Find A Second Life As Tiny Data Centres
4 December 2025Researchers have developed a low cost way to turn discarded smartphones into tiny data centres that can support real world environmental and civic projects. Why Old Smartphones Still Matter More than 1.2 billion smartphones are produced every year, yet most are replaced within two or three years even when they […]
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Featured Article : Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble
25 November 2025Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that no company would escape the impact of an AI bubble bursting, just as concerns about unsustainable valuations are resurfacing and Nvidia’s long-running rally shows signs of slowing. Pichai Raises The Alarm In a recent BBC interview, Pichai described the current phase of AI […]
Tagged AI, AI Bubble, Google, Pichai
Tech Insight : Magnetic Tape Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era
25 November 2025Magnetic tape is experiencing a resurgence in 2025 as AI-driven data growth, cyber security pressures and new material innovations push organisations back towards a technology first introduced more than seventy years ago. What Magnetic Tape Is And How It Works Magnetic tape stores data on a long, narrow strip of […]
Tagged AI, Magnetic Tape, Storage
News : Sanctions For “Bulletproof” Hosting Firm
25 November 2025The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have jointly sanctioned Russian web hosting company Media Land and several related firms, alleging that the group provided resilient infrastructure used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. Coordinated Action Against a Cross Border Threat The announcements were made on 19 November by the […]
Tagged Hosting, Media Land, Sanctions
News : Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024
25 November 2025Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024. How The Discovery Happened The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the […]
Tagged AI, Gemini 3, Google
Company Check : Cloudflare Outage Was NOT a Cyber Attack
25 November 2025Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has clarified that its recent global outage was caused by an internal configuration error and a latent software flaw rather than any form of cyber attack. A Major Disruption Across Large Parts Of The Internet The outage of internet infrastructure company Cloudflare began at around 11:20 […]
Tagged Cloudflare, Cyber Attack, Outage
Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers
25 November 2025Researchers have uncovered a privacy weakness in WhatsApp that allowed the confirmation of 3.5 billion active accounts simply by checking phone numbers. A team from the University of Vienna and SBA Research found that WhatsApp’s contact discovery system could be queried at high speed, letting them generate and test 63 […]
Also posted in Security Tagged Phone Numbers, Privacy, Security, WhatsApp
Sustainability-In-Tech : Powering AI Data Centres Using Hot Rocks
25 November 2025Exowatt, a Sam Altman-backed energy startup, plans to revolutionise AI data centre energy consumption by harnessing the power of concentrated solar energy stored in high-temperature hot rocks to provide round-the-clock, dispatchable electricity. A Viable Alternative to Traditional Grid-Based Power? Co-founded by Hannan Happi, who has a background in energy innovation […]
Also posted in Sustainability Tagged AI, Data Centres, sustainability
Video Update : Collaborate (Directly) In TEAMS Chats With Copilot
25 November 2025You can now take your TEAMS chats to the next level by inviting Microsoft Copilot to the chat. You now have all the power of the AI at your fingertips, without having to leave a TEAMS chat and you can collaborate like never before … fascinating stuff ! [Note – […]
Tagged AI, Copilot, Teams
Tech Tip – Read Emails with Immersive Reader in Outlook
25 November 2025Did you know you can turn any message into a dyslexia‑friendly view that reads it aloud and even translates it on the fly? It’s perfect for listening to long emails while you’re busy with something else. To read an email with Immersive Reader: – Open the email you want to […]
Also posted in Tech Tip Tagged Emails, Immersive Reader, Outlook