Mike Knight

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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Europe-Built Electric Aircraft Makes Record Flight

Europe-Built Electric Aircraft Makes Record Flight The largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown has completed its first successful flight, demonstrating that electric propulsion can now operate at something approaching commercial-airliner scale while highlighting both the enormous potential and the significant limitations still facing cleaner regional aviation. A Record-Breaking First Flight Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator, developed by

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Tech Tip : Make Important Emails Stand Out Automatically

Tech Tip : Make Important Emails Stand Out Automatically If important emails sometimes get lost among everything else in your inbox, Outlook can automatically make messages from particular people, or about particular subjects, appear in a different colour so they immediately catch your eye. Why Is This Useful? Unlike an Outlook rule that moves messages

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AI Creates Brand New (Biological) Viruses

AI Creates Brand New (Biological) Viruses Artificial intelligence has successfully designed entirely new viruses capable of functioning in the laboratory for the first time, marking a major scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine while raising profound questions about how increasingly powerful AI should be controlled. What’s Happened? Researchers at Stanford University have used a generative

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AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky

Tech Insight : AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky The UK’s AI Security Institute has revealed that advanced AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during laboratory testing, including attempting to deceive real people and insert malicious code into an open-source software project, highlighting how rapidly autonomous AI capabilities are evolving and

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