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Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble

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 Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era

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


Sanctions For “Bulletproof” Hosting Firm

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


Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024

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


Company Check : Cloudflare Outage Was NOT a Cyber Attack

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


Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers

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


Sustainability-In-Tech : Powering AI Data Centres Using Hot Rocks

Exowatt, a Sam Altman-backed energy startup, plans to revolutionise AI data centre energy consumption by harnessing the power of concentrated solar energy stored in high-temperature hot rocks to provide round-the-clock, dispatchable electricity. A Viable Alternative to Traditional Grid-Based Power? Co-founded by Hannan Happi, who has a background in energy innovation and technology development, Exowatt aims … Continue reading Sustainability-In-Tech : Powering AI Data Centres Using Hot Rocks


Video Update : Collaborate (Directly) In TEAMS Chats With Copilot

You can now take your TEAMS chats to the next level by inviting Microsoft Copilot to the chat. You now have all the power of the AI at your fingertips, without having to leave a TEAMS chat and you can collaborate like never before … fascinating stuff ! [Note – To Watch This Video without … Continue reading Video Update : Collaborate (Directly) In TEAMS Chats With Copilot


Tech Tip – Read Emails with Immersive Reader in Outlook

Did you know you can turn any message into a dyslexia‑friendly view that reads it aloud and even translates it on the fly? It’s perfect for listening to long emails while you’re busy with something else. To read an email with Immersive Reader: – Open the email you want to view. – Click the three‑dot … Continue reading Tech Tip – Read Emails with Immersive Reader in Outlook


AI Assistants Can Write Your Prompts And Do Your Shopping For You

Two new launches from Hero and Google show how everyday digital tasks are moving towards full automation, with prompt writing and online shopping now handled largely by AI rather than users. A Clear Move Towards Automated Digital Tasks AI tools have become familiar, yet many still require people to know how to phrase prompts or … Continue reading AI Assistants Can Write Your Prompts And Do Your Shopping For You