The government has opened up applications for the second round of its Venture Capital Fellowship career development programme for investment professionals, which focuses on science and technology. The Venture Capital Fellowship aims to increase the capacity of the UK financial sector to invest in up-and-coming technology. Labour wants the UK to be the top European…
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Generative artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others let you create images with text prompts. They also offer powerful editing tools that let you change real photos into anything you want.These abilities won’t reduce our need to take photos and record videos of everything around us. You might tweak your memories with AI…
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The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill represents a golden opportunity to enhance Britain’s national cyber security posture but risks losing the support of key industry stakeholders unless its backers adopt a more comprehensive outlook, a group of MPs has warned. In a report published 11 June, the Cyber Innovation All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)…
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Shazam is one iPhone app I use all the time. I practically take it for granted at this point. Every time a catchy song starts playing, I instinctively open Shazam to figure out what it is so I can listen to it later. I don’t always follow through, but I can’t just sit there not…
Gemini AI can now find out the name of the song stuck in your head Read More »
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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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…
