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Tech News : UK Government Begins Testing of Digital Driving Licence
28 January 2026The UK government has begun testing a digital version of the driving licence as part of wider plans to modernise how people prove their identity and access public services through their smartphones. Starts With Veteran Card The testing marks a significant step in the rollout of a new GOV.UK Wallet, […]
Tagged Digital, Driving Licence, UK
Company Check : TikTok Finalises Deal Creating New American-Controlled Entity
28 January 2026TikTok has formally completed a deal to split its US operations from its global business, establishing a new majority-American joint venture designed to address long-running national security concerns and prevent the platform from being banned in the United States. A Long-Running Political And Legal Battle The agreement, announced on 23 […]
Tagged American, Entity, TikTok
Security Stop-Press : LastPass Warns Customers Over Vault Backup Phishing Scam
28 January 2026Popular password management service, LastPass, has issued an alert after customers were targeted in a phishing campaign designed to steal account credentials using fake maintenance warnings. The campaign began around 19 January and involves emails falsely claiming that LastPass is about to carry out system maintenance. Recipients are urged to […]
Tagged Customers, LastPass, Phishing, Scam, Security
Sustainability-in-Tech : Wind Turbine Wall Promises Three Times More Offshore Power
28 January 2026Japan has lifted a prototype offshore wind turbine wall above the ocean, demonstrating how a new clustered turbine design could dramatically increase renewable energy output while reshaping the economics of offshore wind. A Different Way Of Thinking About Offshore Wind For more than two decades, offshore wind has largely followed […]
Tagged Offshore, Power, sustainability, Wind Turbine
Video Update : Learn A New Subject With ChatGPT Quizzes
28 January 2026You can now make flash-cards and quizzes and then test yourself (and other people) easier than ever. Discover how to create these quizzes quickly within the ChatGPT interface, this video shows just how easy it is … [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to […]
Tagged AI, ChatGPT, Quizzes
Tech Tip: Flag Emails for Follow-Up and Stay on Top of Your Inbox
28 January 2026Most email platforms let you mark important messages so they do not get forgotten. Whether it is called a flag, a star, or a reminder, the idea is simple. Turn emails into prompts for action rather than things you hope you remember later. Outlook In Microsoft Outlook, follow-up flags work […]
Tagged Email, Google, Inbox, Outlook
Featured Article: PM Warns X It Could Lose The Right To Self Regulate
21 January 2026UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has warned that Elon Musk’s X could lose the “right to self regulate” after its Grok AI tool was linked to the creation and circulation of illegal sexualised imagery, prompting a formal Ofcom investigation and an accelerated UK government response. Background The controversy centred on X, […]
Tagged Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, X
Tech Insight : Why Teaching AI Bad Behaviour Can Spread Beyond Its Original Task
21 January 2026New research has found that AI large language models (LLMs) trained to behave badly in a single narrow task can begin producing harmful, deceptive, or extreme outputs across completely unrelated areas, raising serious new questions about how safe AI systems are evaluated and deployed. A Surprising Safety Failure in Modern […]
Tagged AI, Behaviour, LLM
Tech News : OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs
21 January 2026OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a new brain computer interface research company cofounded by its chief executive Sam Altman, marking an escalation in efforts to link human cognition directly with artificial intelligence. BCIs, The Next Frontier? The investment, confirmed by OpenAI, sees the AI company participate as the largest […]
Tagged Brain Computer Interface, OpenAI, Sam Altman
Tech News : Hotels on the Moon by the Early 2030s
21 January 2026A US startup claims the first hotel on the Moon could be deployed by the early 2030s, as space agencies return to lunar missions and private companies search for commercially viable ways to support long-term human presence beyond Earth. Who Is GRU? The proposal comes from Galactic Resource Utilization Space, […]
Tagged Hotels, Moon
Company Check : Is Google Pulling Ahead of OpenAI in the AI Race?
21 January 2026Google’s expanding AI partnerships, product integration, and recent technical progress are fuelling growing debate over whether it has quietly moved ahead of OpenAI in the global race to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence. Matched Since 2022 Google and OpenAI have been closely matched since late 2022, when OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT […]
Tagged AI, Google, OpenAI
Security-in-Tech: Smart Glasses Fuel Rise in Covert Filming Risks
21 January 2026Smart glasses with built-in cameras are being increasingly misused to secretly record people in public, creating new privacy and security concerns. Cases reported in the UK, Europe and North America show women being filmed without their knowledge, with footage later posted online and attracting tens of thousands, and in some […]
Tagged Filming, Security, smart glasses