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Bending Spoons has completed one of the most dramatic 48-hour periods in recent European tech history after announcing an agreement to acquire AOL and revealing a $270 million funding round that has pushed its valuation from $2.55 billion to $11 billion. What is ‘Bending Spoons’? Bending Spoons is a Milan based technology company that has … Continue reading Company Check : How Bending Spoons Hit an $11 Billion Valuation in Just 48 Hours
Gartner says 40 percent of enterprises will face a shadow AI related breach by 2030 as unapproved and unmanaged AI tools continue to spread across workplaces. Shadow AI covers any AI system or workflow used without formal oversight, such as employees putting company data into public models or teams deploying internal tools with no security … Continue reading Security Stop-Press: Shadow AI Breaches Expected To Hit 40 Percent Of Enterprises By 2030
Researchers have developed a low cost way to turn discarded smartphones into tiny data centres that can support real world environmental and civic projects. Why Old Smartphones Still Matter More than 1.2 billion smartphones are produced every year, yet most are replaced within two or three years even when they remain fully functional. The environmental … Continue reading Sustainability-In-Tech : Old Smartphones Find A Second Life As Tiny Data Centres
Did you know you can save a custom query, like “all emails from my boss flagged as high importance”, as a folder that stays up‑to‑date automatically? This lets you jump straight to the results without re‑running the search each time. How to create a Search Folder 1. In Outlook (desktop or web), switch to Folder … Continue reading Tech Tip: Create a Search Folder in Outlook
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that no company would escape the impact of an AI bubble bursting, just as concerns about unsustainable valuations are resurfacing and Nvidia’s long-running rally shows signs of slowing. Pichai Raises The Alarm In a recent BBC interview, Pichai described the current phase of AI investment as an “extraordinary moment”, while … Continue reading Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble
Magnetic tape is experiencing a resurgence in 2025 as AI-driven data growth, cyber security pressures and new material innovations push organisations back towards a technology first introduced more than seventy years ago. What Magnetic Tape Is And How It Works Magnetic tape stores data on a long, narrow strip of plastic film coated with a … Continue reading Magnetic Tape Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era
The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have jointly sanctioned Russian web hosting company Media Land and several related firms, alleging that the group provided resilient infrastructure used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. Coordinated Action Against a Cross Border Threat The announcements were made on 19 November by the US Treasury, the UK’s Foreign, … Continue reading Sanctions For “Bulletproof” Hosting Firm
Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024. How The Discovery Happened The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the chance to try the model … Continue reading Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has clarified that its recent global outage was caused by an internal configuration error and a latent software flaw rather than any form of cyber attack. A Major Disruption Across Large Parts Of The Internet The outage of internet infrastructure company Cloudflare began at around 11:20 UTC on 18 November 2025 … Continue reading Company Check : Cloudflare Outage Was NOT a Cyber Attack
Researchers have uncovered a privacy weakness in WhatsApp that allowed the confirmation of 3.5 billion active accounts simply by checking phone numbers. A team from the University of Vienna and SBA Research found that WhatsApp’s contact discovery system could be queried at high speed, letting them generate and test 63 billion numbers and confirm more … Continue reading Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers