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Company Check : Virtual Salespeople Beating Human Livestream Hosts
17 December 2025As reported by PLTFRM, virtual sales avatars are now outperforming human presenters across major ecommerce platforms, changing how online retail content is produced and delivered. Who Is PLTFRM? PLTFRM is a Shanghai based creative agency that specialises in digital advertising and ecommerce. Over the past two years it has become […]
Tagged AI, Salespeople, Virtual
Security Stop-Press: Aisuru Botnet Drives Terabit-Scale DDoS Attacks
17 December 2025The Aisuru botnet, built from millions of hijacked routers and other cheap IoT devices, has driven DDoS attacks to levels the internet has never seen before. Cloudflare, the internet security provider, reports that Aisuru now controls up to four million infected devices, mainly spread across Asia. Indonesia is the biggest […]
Tagged Aisuru, Botnet, DDoS
Sustainability-In-Tech : Data Centre Power Demand May Triple By 2035
17 December 2025Global data centre electricity demand is now forecast to almost triple by 2035, forcing urgent questions about how to power the AI boom sustainably. The Forecasts Point To A Steep Rise New analysis from BloombergNEF suggests data centres could be drawing around 106 gigawatts of power by 2035, up from […]
Tagged Data Centre, Power, sustainability
Tech Tip – Remember To Add Important Folders To Favorites in Outlook
17 December 2025It sounds like a simple idea, but taking a minute to do it could save you many more minutes each day by keeping the folders you use most right at the top of the navigation pane. How to do it: – In Microsoft Outlook, in the folder pane, right‑click the […]
Tagged Favourites, Folders, Outlook
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