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Popular password management service, LastPass, has issued an alert after customers were targeted in a phishing campaign designed to steal account credentials using fake maintenance warnings. The campaign began around 19 January and involves emails falsely claiming that LastPass is about to carry out system maintenance. Recipients are urged to back up their password vaults … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : LastPass Warns Customers Over Vault Backup Phishing Scam
Japan has lifted a prototype offshore wind turbine wall above the ocean, demonstrating how a new clustered turbine design could dramatically increase renewable energy output while reshaping the economics of offshore wind. A Different Way Of Thinking About Offshore Wind For more than two decades, offshore wind has largely followed the simple formula of building … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Wind Turbine Wall Promises Three Times More Offshore Power
You can now make flash-cards and quizzes and then test yourself (and other people) easier than ever. Discover how to create these quizzes quickly within the ChatGPT interface, this video shows just how easy it is … [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-January-Learn-a-new-subject-with-ChatGPT-Quizzes-app.mp4
Most email platforms let you mark important messages so they do not get forgotten. Whether it is called a flag, a star, or a reminder, the idea is simple. Turn emails into prompts for action rather than things you hope you remember later. Outlook In Microsoft Outlook, follow-up flags work like lightweight tasks. How to … Continue reading Tech Tip: Flag Emails for Follow-Up and Stay on Top of Your Inbox
UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has warned that Elon Musk’s X could lose the “right to self regulate” after its Grok AI tool was linked to the creation and circulation of illegal sexualised imagery, prompting a formal Ofcom investigation and an accelerated UK government response. Background The controversy centred on X, formerly Twitter, and its AI … Continue reading PM Warns X It Could Lose The Right To Self Regulate
New research has found that AI large language models (LLMs) trained to behave badly in a single narrow task can begin producing harmful, deceptive, or extreme outputs across completely unrelated areas, raising serious new questions about how safe AI systems are evaluated and deployed. A Surprising Safety Failure in Modern AI Large language models (LLMs) … Continue reading Why Teaching AI Bad Behaviour Can Spread Beyond Its Original Task
OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a new brain computer interface research company cofounded by its chief executive Sam Altman, marking an escalation in efforts to link human cognition directly with artificial intelligence. BCIs, The Next Frontier? The investment, confirmed by OpenAI, sees the AI company participate as the largest single backer in Merge Labs’ … Continue reading OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs
A US startup claims the first hotel on the Moon could be deployed by the early 2030s, as space agencies return to lunar missions and private companies search for commercially viable ways to support long-term human presence beyond Earth. Who Is GRU? The proposal comes from Galactic Resource Utilization Space, better known as GRU Space, … Continue reading Hotels on the Moon by the Early 2030s
Google’s expanding AI partnerships, product integration, and recent technical progress are fuelling growing debate over whether it has quietly moved ahead of OpenAI in the global race to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence. Matched Since 2022 Google and OpenAI have been closely matched since late 2022, when OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT reshaped public and commercial expectations … Continue reading Company Check : Is Google Pulling Ahead of OpenAI in the AI Race?
Smart glasses with built-in cameras are being increasingly misused to secretly record people in public, creating new privacy and security concerns. Cases reported in the UK, Europe and North America show women being filmed without their knowledge, with footage later posted online and attracting tens of thousands, and in some cases millions, of views. Devices … Continue reading Security-in-Tech: Smart Glasses Fuel Rise in Covert Filming Risks