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If you’d like to customise and personalise your Google home page to show your favourite photo or GIF, here’s how: – Save a favourite GIF or photo to your device (you may already favourite photos and GIFs saved). – On the Google home screen (bottom right), click on the ‘Customise Chrome’ icon (a pen symbol). … Continue reading Tech Tip – Customise Your Google Home Page With A Favourite Photo or GIF →

Elon Musk has stated that his “𝕏” social media platform will cover the legal expenses and initiate lawsuits on behalf of individuals who have been treated “unfairly “by their employers due to posts or likes on the site, previously known as Twitter. Presumably, he is trying to reinvent champion the platform as a bastion of … Continue reading Featured Article : What The XXXX Does It All Mean? →

Following warnings about threats posed by the rapid growth of AI, the US White House has reported that seven leading AI companies have committed to developing safeguards. Voluntary Commitments Made  A recent White House fact sheet has highlighted how, in a bid to manage the risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to protect Americans’ … Continue reading Tech News : Seven Safeguarding SamurAI? →

MSE Chat GPT is a recently launched experimental AI chatbot that can answer money questions using MoneySavingExpert guides as its primary source. MSE ChatGPT – Get Fast Answers To Money Questions  Recently launched by TV’s consumer financial champion and founder of MoneySavingExpert (MSE), Martin Lewis CBE, MSE Chat GPT is a variant of OpenAI’s Chat … Continue reading Tech News : Money Saving Expert Chatbot →

Following the recent Nigel Farage and Coutts Bank row, we look at what a Subject Access Request (SAR) is, how to make one, and why there appears to have been an explosion of them in recent times. What Happened Between Nigel Farage and Coutts?  To summarise in a way that’s relevant this article, in a … Continue reading Tech Insight : Explosion In Subject Access Requests →

The recent announcement by Thames Water that it may restrict water flows to London data centres and charge them more at times of peak demand may be the shape of things to come. Thames Water Ltd – Considering Restrictions  The announcement follows an investigation last year into how much water was being used by London … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Data Centres May Have Their Water Restricted →

The Wonderful Wizard of Woz! Steve Wozniak – business partner of Steve Jobs and co-founder of Apple – was born on August 11, 1950. Most people know that Apple went on to become one of the most valuable companies in the world and even though Steve the company way back in left in 1985, there … Continue reading Tech Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in History … →

In this first instalment of a three-part look at how staff can maintain the right level of security when using their devices in the summer holidays: – Secure Your Devices. Ensure that all your devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets) are password-protected and have the latest security updates installed. This includes your operating system, antivirus software, and … Continue reading Security-Stop-Press : Securing Staff In Summer Holidays (P1) →

Google’s updated Password Manager in Chrome allows you check if any of your passwords have been compromised or involved in a data breach. Here’s how to use it: – In Chrome, click on the three dots (top right). – Select ‘Passwords’ (in iOS) or ‘Google Password Manager’ in desktop browser. – Click on ‘Check Now’. … Continue reading Tech Tip – How To Quickly Check If Any Of Yours Passwords Have Been Leaked →

The recent amendment to the Online Safety Bill which means a compulsory report must be written for Ofcom by a “skilled person” before encrypted app companies are forced to scan messages has led to even more criticism of this rather controversial bill to bypass security in apps and give the government (and therefore any number of people) … Continue reading Featured Article : UK Gov Pushing To Spy On WhatsApp (& Others) →