As expensive as smartphones have become, buying a phone outright is difficult for many of us. As a result, financing through a carrier is often the best option. For years, that meant signing on for a 24-month plan, but a few years ago, Verizon and AT&T increased the lengths of their plans to 36 months…
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My bingo card for this month did not include OpenAI telling the world that future frontier AI models coming to ChatGPT will know how to make bioweapons or novel biothreats, but here we are. We can add this capability to the growing list of issues that give us reason to worry about a future where…
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West Brom Building Society is embarking on a three-stage project to build the digital capabilities its customers want. The organisation, which offers mortgages and savings products to about 500,000 people, will retain its 34 branches, but said customers are showing a preference for more choice in how they engage with it. The five-year project will…
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed up to £750m in funding to create the UK’s most powerful supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh, ten months after the government pulled the plug on a similar project backed by the previous administration. Funding for the project is set to be confirmed by Reeves during the Spending Review later…
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The government is using national security as a “smokescreen” to refuse to disclose how many technical capability notices (TCNs) it has issued to telecoms and internet companies to secretly gain access to users’ encrypted communications and data, and make other modifications to their networks, it was claimed last night. Senior Conservative MP David Davis told…
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A growing sense of uncertainty is taking hold as the UK faces two compounding pressures. On one hand, prolonged international trade negotiations are leaving many investors and business leaders feeling removed from decisions that impact their long-term strategies. On the other, a series of high-profile cyber attacks on UK and global companies has cast doubt…
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According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple now plans to debut its AI-powered upgrade for Siri as part of iOS 26.4. Looking back at the previous two iOS generations, iOS 18.4 arrived on March 31, 2025, while iOS 17.4 rolled out on March 5, 2024. Therefore, we can safely assume iOS 26.4 will launch around March…
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Over half of cyber security professionals lose sleep due to work-related stress, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec: 2022/23 State of the profession survey). They suffer from these and other symptoms similar to those we deal with in combat veterans at PTSD Resolution, the UK ex-Forces mental health charity. Yet…
Human vs digital therapy: AI falls short when IT pros need help Read More »
Nvidia could have a new spin on its RTX 5090 graphics cardThis is rumored to be a new version of the RTX 5090 D for ChinaA leaker says it’ll pack a ‘surprise’, but the truth could be more mundaneNvidia is rumored to be planning a new variant on its Blackwell flagship graphics card, potentially an…
AI superintelligence is inevitable. In fact, we’re already well on our way to reaching it. Superintelligence will theoretically lead to a much better world for everyone on the planet. It’ll eventually be available to everyone, and it’ll be cheap. We won’t worry about energy costs either. This is all part of the vision laid out…
