January 2025

Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Apple comments from the Rogan podcast are laughably wrong

7 minutes of reading / AirPods, Apple, Apple Watch, Google, iPhone, MacBook, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

When I saw that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, I had no doubt there’d be fireworks. And true to form, Zuckerberg, with his gold chain on full display, didn’t disappoint. As is typically the case with anything Rogan, Zuckerberg, over the course of a 3-hour interview, provided several soundbites that…

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CMA kicks off investigation into Google search engine dominance

4 minutes of reading / AI, Google, Tech / By

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has kicked off the new year with an investigation of Google Search under the new digital markets competition regime, which came into force on 1 January 2025. It is seeking to determine if Google has strategic market status in search and search advertising activities, and whether these services are…

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Barings Law enleagues 15,000 claimants against Google and Microsoft

3 minutes of reading / AI, data privacy, Git, GitHub, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

A law firm based in Manchester has gathered around 15,000 claimants for an impending data breach lawsuit against Microsoft and Google. The firm began signing up clients in November 2024 for a class action against the US tech giants. It believes them to be illegally collecting and using peoples’ data to train their artificial intelligence…

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What they don’t tell you about cyber attacks – the emotional impact on staff

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Whilst the financial, operational, and reputational damage caused by cyber attacks is often the focus of attention, the emotional toll on staff involved in the recovery process is an equally important but frequently overlooked aspect. Employees working on the front line of recovery often find themselves grappling with a unique set of stressors that can…

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Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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The AI Opportunities Action Plan is recommended reading

5 minutes of reading / AI, Intel, open source, Tech / By

Showing not a slither of triskaidekaphobia, the government chose 13 January to launch its AI Opportunities Action Plan. Many months in the making, it’s a good paper from Matt Clifford, who is staying on as advisor to support implementation. The action plan makes 50 recommendations – mostly all fully accepted by the government and set out…

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UK’s female fintech leaders hit harder by investment collapse

3 minutes of reading / automation, fintech, Tech, Technology / By

The women behind fintechs still face discrimination when seeking investment, despite the issue being an industry talking point for years, according to figures from a UK fintech industry body. Innovate Finance’s numbers, which revealed UK fintech investment dropped by double the global figure, also unearthed the worrying detail that investment in fintechs led by women…

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Biggest Patch Tuesday in years sees Microsoft address 159 vulnerabilities

5 minutes of reading / Adobe, Git, GitHub, iPad, Microsoft, Tech / By

Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a bang on the second Tuesday of January, dropping a massive Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities – rising to 161 incorporating two additional vulnerabilities through CERT CC and GitHub. According to Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative, this may be the largest number of CVEs addressed…

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Users protest, flee TikTok as clock ticks on US ban

6 minutes of reading / Computer, data privacy, Huawei, Meta, Oracle, social media, Tech, Tesla, threat intelligence, Twitter, VPN / By

With the 19 January 2025 ban on TikTok just days away, American social media users and businesses are facing up to the fact that the video-sharing platform may go dark across the US at the weekend, with some now considering other alternatives at the last minute. On Friday 10 January, a last-ditch attempt by TikTok…

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Larger businesses spend, spend, spend on AI

3 minutes of reading / AI, Tech / By

One in three companies across all markets are planning to spend $25m or more on artificial intelligence (AI) in 2025, a study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has reported. The survey shows that larger businesses with revenues greater than $500m are making significant investments in AI, but there are big differences between those able to…

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