Tagged as Data

Security Stop-Press : Data Brokers Selling AI Chat Transcripts

Published 10 March 2026

Researchers warn that private conversations with AI chatbots may be ending up in commercial databases sold by data brokers. It’s been reported that AI visibility researcher Lee S Dryburgh found that some browser extensions marketed as free VPNs or ad blockers can intercept traffic to services such as ChatGPT, Gemini, […]

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Sustainability-in-Tech : UK Data Centre Cuts AI Power Use By 40 Per Cent

Published 10 March 2026

A UK data centre has demonstrated that artificial intelligence infrastructure can reduce its electricity consumption by up to 40 per cent in response to grid signals without interrupting critical computing workloads. A UK-First Trial Of Flexible AI Infrastructure The demonstration took place at Nebius’s “AI Factory” data centre near London […]

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Tech News : Hard Drive Makers Sell Out 2026 Output To AI Data Centres

Published 25 February 2026

The world’s biggest hard drive manufacturers have already allocated all the units they will produce this year after hyperscale AI and cloud operators secured the bulk of available capacity. AI Infrastructure Buys Up The Year Western Digital and Seagate have both confirmed that their nearline hard drive production for calendar […]

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Company Check : Microsoft’s Glass Storage and the Future of Long Term Data

Published 25 February 2026

Microsoft has published peer-reviewed research demonstrating that data can be written into ordinary borosilicate glass and preserved for more than 10,000 years, positioning its ‘Project Silica’ work as a potential long-term archival storage platform for the cloud era. The Challenge This development addresses a persistent challenge for hyperscale cloud providers […]

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Security Stop-Press : AI Agents Can Leak Data Through Chat Link Previews

Published 17 February 2026

AI agents running inside messaging apps can leak sensitive data through automatic link previews, researchers at AI security firm PromptArmor have warned, creating a zero-click data exfiltration risk. The flaw reportedly exploits indirect prompt injection. For example, an attacker tricks an agent into generating a malicious URL containing sensitive information, […]

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Featured Article : HMRC Wants UK Crypto Buyers’ Details

Published 7 January 2026

People using cryptocurrency services in the UK are now required to provide personal and tax identifying details to cryptoasset platforms, following new reporting rules that came into force on 1 January 2026. What Are The Rules? From the start of 2026, anyone buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging cryptoassets through a […]

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