In a twist of bureaucratic brilliance that Yes, Minister fans will appreciate, the civil service is rolling out a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools named – yes – Humphrey. Named after Sir Humphrey Appleby, the oh-so-helpful civil servant who was actually a master of obstruction through cooperation, this AI initiative is designed to streamline…
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Do you remember the story about your politeness costing OpenAI millions of dollars? Did you know that it also negatively impacts the environment since you’re consuming more tokens, resulting in the servers consuming more water and energy? Well, these aren’t the only reasons why you shouldn’t mind your Ps and Qs when interacting with AI.…
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A couple of weeks after seeding the first beta of iOS 26, Apple is ready to move forward with the beta cycle, as the company just released its second testing version. At this moment, it’s unclear what’s new with this software update. However, developers will likely see a huge improvement over general stability and bug…
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Former subpostmasters who suffered as a result of errors in a pre-Horizon computer system will be able to apply for compensation from autumn this year. Around 2,000 subpostmasters used the software, known as Capture, to do their accounts from 1992 to the introduction of the Horizon system in 1999. Many experienced unexplained shortfalls and some…
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Among the questions a head of technology may ponder are, what does it mean to be innovative, and perhaps, what technology can be used to drive an innovation strategy? Given the main way people tend to place bets with Bet365 is via its mobile app, Alan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology…
At Pure Storage’s Accelerate 2025 event this week in Las Vegas, the company launched its Enterprise Data Cloud, which knits together a common operating system across its storage products, plus monitoring and management capabilities from its Fusion control plane and as-a-service procurement options. We caught up with CEO Charles Giancarlo to ask him about Pure’s foray…
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US restaurant chain Red Lobster opted to standardise on Pure Storage flash storage arrays as it tried to fill a gap in disaster recovery (DR) provision that would have left it severely exposed in case of an unplanned outage at its primary datacentre. The move to fully on-premise mirrored datacentres also meant it dodged cloud…
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After years of users asking for a more capable iPad software, Apple is finally delivering it with iPadOS 26. With beta 2, the company keeps improving on the new Mac-like features that make not only the iPad Pro a better laptop replacement, but pretty much every iPad available.First of all, the major change iPad users…
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A couple of weeks after starting the beta cycle of macOS Tahoe, Apple is now releasing the second test version of this upcoming operating system update for Macs. At this moment, it’s unclear what’s new with it. However, Apple is likely making the general experience with this beta software more reliable, as it aims to…
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Following the release of the first tvOS 26 beta, Apple is now seeding the second build of this upcoming Apple TV operating system update. Although not every Apple TV will get the latest features, Cupertino has another packed year for its set-top box, as we expect a new model to be released later this year.…
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