Time Is Running Out For Cyber Security, Warn Top Tech Firms More than 100 major technology, financial and security organisations have warned that businesses and public bodies have only a limited window to strengthen their cyber defences before increasingly capable AI makes attacks faster, cheaper and considerably more difficult to contain. Why Is The Warning […]
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Meta Settles Child Harm Claims For $18bn Meta has agreed to pay approximately US$18 billion and introduce major new restrictions for teenage Facebook and Instagram users, ending a high-profile federal trial brought by US states over allegations that the platforms were designed in ways that harmed children and encouraged excessive use. Why Has Meta Settled?
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Call-Blocking Firm Receives Massive Fine For Making Nuisance Calls A company selling technology designed to stop nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that it had itself made more than 758,000 unlawful marketing calls, many of them to elderly and potentially vulnerable people. What Did Elderly Aids Do? Cardiff-based
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Amazon Hikes Device Prices As AI Fuels Memory Shortage Amazon has sharply increased the US prices of many of its Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices, with some rises reaching 60 per cent, as the company passes on higher memory and storage costs linked to the wider AI-driven squeeze on semiconductor supply. How Much
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28-Year Linux Code Fight Nears Its End A US appeals court has upheld the dismissal of the last live claim in a decades-long dispute over IBM’s use of code from Project Monterey, bringing one of the technology industry’s longest-running legal battles close to an end while removing another layer of uncertainty around Linux and open-source
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Laser Mosquito Control Could Cut Chemical Use A portable device that uses LiDAR, radar, AI and a laser to detect and kill mosquitoes is now being sold commercially, raising a much bigger question than whether people will pay around US$1,000 to keep insects away from their patios and instead focusing attention on whether precision technology
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A Tour Of Copilot’s Features In Less Than 10 Mins Discover Copilot’s most useful features in less than 10 minutes and learn how they can make everyday tasks quicker and easier.
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Protect Important Folders From Ransomware Windows includes a lesser-known security feature called Controlled Folder Access that can stop untrusted apps changing files in important folders such as Documents, Pictures and Desktop, helping protect them from ransomware. Why Is This Useful? Ransomware often works by encrypting or changing files so you can no longer access them.
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Turn Your Home WiFi Into A Security Motion Sensor Comcast has begun turning compatible Xfinity home routers into camera-free motion detectors, showing how WiFi infrastructure can now do far more than connect devices while raising important questions about privacy, data use and intelligent buildings. What Has Comcast Launched? The new capability forms part of Xfinity
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OpenAI Makes Privacy A Competitive Advantage OpenAI is turning data privacy into a competitive weapon, promising eligible business customers its frontier AI models can operate without retaining their prompts or responses, just as rival Anthropic is requiring 30-day retention for some frontier-model traffic. Zero Data Retention As A Selling Point The company has just previewed
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