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UK Digital ID Mandatory By 2029
1 October 2025UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced that digital ID will become mandatory to prove the right to work in the UK by 2029, triggering both ministerial praise and civil liberties concerns. Interestingly, a petition on the UK Government’s site : https://petition.parliament.uk/ had attracted approaching three million signatures of people opposed to […]
Friendship Tech Goes From Novelty To Necessity
1 October 2025In this Tech Insight, we look at how a new generation of digital platforms and community initiatives is rising to meet the growing UK demand for meaningful friendship, tackling loneliness through apps, events, and innovative social design that prioritises connection over dating. A Growing Demand (And Rising Cost) Loneliness in […]
App Pays You For Your Phone Calls
1 October 2025A new iPhone app that pays users for their call recordings to train AI systems rose rapidly in late September. However, it then went offline after a security flaw exposed user data. What Neon Is And Who Is Behind It? Neon is a consumer app that pays users to record […]
Ad‑Free Facebook & Insta … For £3.99 Monthly
1 October 2025Meta will let UK users pay a monthly fee to use Facebook and Instagram without adverts, introducing a lower‑priced “consent or pay” model in response to UK data protection guidance. Users Offered A Choice Meta has confirmed that UK users will soon be offered a choice, i.e., continue using Facebook […]
Company Check : Claude In CoPilot & Google Data Commons
1 October 2025Microsoft has confirmed it is adding Anthropic’s Claude models to its Copilot AI assistant, giving enterprise users a new option alongside OpenAI for handling complex tasks in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Expands Model Choice In Copilot Microsoft has begun rolling out support for Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, two […]
Security Stop-Press: Insider Threats : BBC Reporter Shares Story
1 October 2025Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting employees as a way into company systems, with insider threats now posing a serious and growing risk. In one recent case, a BBC reporter revealed how a ransomware gang tried to recruit him through a messaging app, offering a share of a ransom if he provided […]
Sustainability-In-Tech : Robots Refurbish Your Old Laptops
1 October 2025A research team in Denmark is building an AI‑driven robot to refurbish laptops at scale, offering a practical route to reduce e‑waste while creating new value for businesses. RoboSAPIENS At the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in Odense, robotics researchers are developing a system that uses computer vision, machine learning and […]
Video Update : How To Schedule Tasks in ChatGPT
1 October 2025It’s easier than ever to setup scheduled tasks in CoPilot and so whether you want a summary of the news each week or updates about your stock portfolio every morning, this video shows how you can get CoPilot to run scheduled tasks for you, with (importantly) an email sent to […]
Tech Tip – Turn Off WhatsApp Read Receipts for More Privacy
1 October 2025Feel under pressure to reply the moment you’ve read a message? Turning off WhatsApp’s read receipts hides the blue ticks, letting you read messages privately and respond in your own time. How to: – Open WhatsApp and go to Settings > Privacy > Read Receipts.– Toggle it off. What it’s […]
OpenAI Claims It Detects “AI Scheming”
24 September 2025OpenAI says it has developed new tools to uncover and limit deceptive “AI Scheming” behaviour in its most advanced AI models, before the risks become real. What Is “AI Scheming”? “AI scheming” refers to a type of hidden misalignment, where a model deliberately acts in a way that appears helpful […]
Chrome Gets Built-In Gemini
24 September 2025Google has announced what it calls the biggest upgrade to Chrome in its history, introducing a wide range of Gemini AI-powered features to the browser, and they’re not optional. AI Becomes Core to Chrome The new features, now rolling out for desktop users in the US with English set as […]
Working Biological Viruses Designed By AI
24 September 2025Stanford researchers have used AI to design real, working viruses in the lab, raising major questions about safety, regulation, and future use. The Research This month (September 2025), a team led by Brian Hie at Stanford and the Arc Institute revealed that generative AI models can now design entire genome-scale […]
