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Video Update : How To Create Your Brand Kit With CoPilot

Creating visuals with brand elements in Microsoft 365 CoPilot helps with brand consistency, increased productivity, and enhanced creativity by quickly generating branded content, managing brand assets, and offering AI-powered visual creation tools integrated into workflows. [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it first] https://mklink-videos.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/2025-October-Copilot-Brand-Kits.mp4


Tech Tip – How To Undo Send in Gmail and Outlook

Avoid email mistakes with Gmail and Outlook’s Undo Send feature, a handy safety net for business communications. Here’s how: For Gmail: – After sending an email, look for the “Undo” prompt in the bottom left corner. Click Undo before the time limit expires (5-10 seconds, or up to 30 seconds if set in settings). – … Continue reading Tech Tip – How To Undo Send in Gmail and Outlook


UK Digital ID Mandatory By 2029

UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced that digital ID will become mandatory to prove the right to work in the UK by 2029, triggering both ministerial praise and civil liberties concerns. Interestingly, a petition on the UK Government’s site : https://petition.parliament.uk/ had attracted approaching three million signatures of people opposed to the bill, within a week … Continue reading UK Digital ID Mandatory By 2029


Friendship Tech Goes From Novelty To Necessity

In this Tech Insight, we look at how a new generation of digital platforms and community initiatives is rising to meet the growing UK demand for meaningful friendship, tackling loneliness through apps, events, and innovative social design that prioritises connection over dating. A Growing Demand (And Rising Cost) Loneliness in the UK is no longer … Continue reading Friendship Tech Goes From Novelty To Necessity


App Pays You For Your Phone Calls

A new iPhone app that pays users for their call recordings to train AI systems rose rapidly in late September. However, it then went offline after a security flaw exposed user data. What Neon Is And Who Is Behind It? Neon is a consumer app that pays users to record their phone calls and sells … Continue reading App Pays You For Your Phone Calls


Ad‑Free Facebook & Insta … For £3.99 Monthly

Meta will let UK users pay a monthly fee to use Facebook and Instagram without adverts, introducing a lower‑priced “consent or pay” model in response to UK data protection guidance. Users Offered A Choice Meta has confirmed that UK users will soon be offered a choice, i.e., continue using Facebook and Instagram for free with … Continue reading Ad‑Free Facebook & Insta … For £3.99 Monthly


Company Check : Claude In CoPilot & Google Data Commons

Microsoft has confirmed it is adding Anthropic’s Claude models to its Copilot AI assistant, giving enterprise users a new option alongside OpenAI for handling complex tasks in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Expands Model Choice In Copilot Microsoft has begun rolling out support for Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, two of Anthropic’s large language models, … Continue reading Company Check : Claude In CoPilot & Google Data Commons


Security Stop-Press: Insider Threats : BBC Reporter Shares Story

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting employees as a way into company systems, with insider threats now posing a serious and growing risk. In one recent case, a BBC reporter revealed how a ransomware gang tried to recruit him through a messaging app, offering a share of a ransom if he provided access to BBC systems. The … Continue reading Security Stop-Press: Insider Threats : BBC Reporter Shares Story


Sustainability-In-Tech : Robots Refurbish Your Old Laptops

A research team in Denmark is building an AI‑driven robot to refurbish laptops at scale, offering a practical route to reduce e‑waste while creating new value for businesses. RoboSAPIENS At the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in Odense, robotics researchers are developing a system that uses computer vision, machine learning and a robotic arm to automate … Continue reading Sustainability-In-Tech : Robots Refurbish Your Old Laptops


Video Update : How To Schedule Tasks in ChatGPT

It’s easier than ever to setup scheduled tasks in CoPilot and so whether you want a summary of the news each week or updates about your stock portfolio every morning, this video shows how you can get CoPilot to run scheduled tasks for you, with (importantly) an email sent to you as well, if you … Continue reading Video Update : How To Schedule Tasks in ChatGPT