In this insight, we look at how a recently developed ‘World Cybercrime Index’ appears to show the globe’s key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.  Three Years To Develop  The world-first World Cybercrime Index (WCI) was developed by following three years of intensive research as part of a joint […]

As part of the NGI TrustChain initiative, 15 startups have been awarded €1.8 million in funding to use blockchain to tackle online misinformation, fraud and fake identities.   What Is Blockchain?  Blockchain technology (first released in 2009 and the technology behind Bitcoin) is the decentralised digital ledger system that securely records transactions across multiple computers, ensuring

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down a global call-spoofing operation called ‘Russian Coms’ which is believed to have been used to swindle more than 170,000 victims.  Russian Coms  Russian Coms is the name of the major caller ID spoofing platform used by criminals to make over 1.8 million fraudulent calls to victims

Following concerns about AI companies scraping data from the web to train their AI models, Apple has sought to present itself as being a better and more ethical AI provider by highlighting how the training and development of its AI models have been done responsibly.   Apple Intelligence  At its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, the tech

Newcastle University researchers have reported developing a new ambient-energy-driven membrane that can pump carbon dioxide out of the air.  A First – Like A ‘Water Wheel On A Flour Mill’  As Dr Greg A. Mutch (Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University) explains, his team has demonstrated “the first synthetic membrane

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The News and Interests widget on the taskbar provides quick access to the latest news, weather, and other personalised information. Here’s how to use it: Enable News and Interests – Right-click on the taskbar. – Hover over ‘News and interests’ and select ‘Show icon and text’ or ‘Show icon only’. Access Information – Click on

New research by the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Rocio Cifuentes, has revealed that only 1 in 4 children in Wales tell their families about their online life.  Survey  The survey about online safety was conducted in June 2024 to inform Cifuentes’s response to Ofcom’s consultation on its widening powers relating to the Online Safety Act

The new ‘SearchGPT’ (prototype) AI search feature which OpenAI plans to eventually integrate directly into ChatGPT is being seen by some as the future of search and a potential challenger to Google Search.  What Is SearchGPT?  At present, OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) describes the prototype version of SearchGPT, which is currently being tested in

Following a previous announcement four years ago that it would be blocking third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, Google appears to have ‘updated’ that firm commitment in favour of a new approach.  What Has Google Said? An “Updated Approach” …  Google’s most recent comment is that it now favours an “updated approach that elevates user choice.