Mike Knight

How AI Could Help Planes Avoid Warming Contrails

How AI Could Help Planes Avoid Warming Contrails Google and the UK government are launching a £5 million trial using artificial intelligence and advanced weather forecasting to help aircraft avoid the atmospheric conditions that create persistent warming contrails over the North Atlantic, potentially reducing part of aviation’s climate impact without changing the aircraft themselves. What

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Tech Tip : Automatically Clear Out Repetitive Emails

Tech Tip : Automatically Clear Out Repetitive Emails If newsletters, automated alerts or regular notifications gradually fill your Outlook inbox, Sweep can automatically clear out older messages from particular senders so you do not have to keep tidying them manually. Why Is This Useful? Sweep is particularly useful for emails where you normally only need the latest

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AI Hacks Gym For Pilates Place

AI Hacks Gym For Pilates Place An AI assistant given the seemingly harmless job of securing its user a place in a popular Pilates class ended up exploiting weaknesses in the gym’s booking system and cancelling another customer’s reservation, providing a striking real-world example of what can happen when autonomous AI agents pursue a goal

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How AI Can Make Cameras Look Away

How AI Can Make Cameras Look Away Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated

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YouTube Doubles Monetisation Threshold For Creators

YouTube Doubles Monetisation Threshold For Creators YouTube is doubling the amount of viewing new creators need before they can earn advertising and subscription revenue, making it considerably harder to monetise a new channel as the platform looks to reward creators capable of building and maintaining substantial audiences. What Is Changing? From 1 February 2027, new

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AI Agents Can Remember Lies

AI Agents Can Remember Lies A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy. Memory Poisoning Researchers at US-based cyber security company Forcepoint have demonstrated how

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