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If you’ve got a long list of bookmarks in Google Chrome that’s not in order, using ‘Bookmark Manager’ can help get your bookmarks organised and easily navigable. Here’s how to use it: – In Chrome, top right, click on the three dots and select Bookmarks > Bookmark manager. – Your bookmark list, with a border … Continue reading Tech Tip – How To Organise Your Bookmarks In Chrome →

In an apparent admission of defeat, the UK government has conceded that requiring scanning of platforms like WhatsApp for messages with harmful content, as required in the Online Safety Bill, is not (currently) feasible. The ‘Spy Clause’  Under what’s been dubbed the ‘spy clause’ (Clause 122) in the UK’s Online Safety Bill, the government had stated … Continue reading Featured Article : Temporary Climb-Down By UK Government →

In this insight, we look at how, according to an investigation by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), criminals may have been using Spotify to launder money since 2019. How?  The reported money laundering process, which was noticed by analysts from the National Operative Unit of the Swedish Police Force, involved a web of activities using … Continue reading Tech Insight : Laundering Money Via Spotify? →

Vienna-based advocacy group ‘Noyb’ has filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit, alleging that it has violated the EU’s GDPR over illegal exporting of user data. Complaints In Three Countries  Noyb, which stands for ‘None Of Your Business,’ (and founded by privacy activist Max Schrems) filed three complaints against Fitbit – in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy. … Continue reading Tech News : Fitbit Data Transfer Complaints →

Following pressure resulting from a formal investigation by the European Commission over a possible breach of competition rules, Microsoft has announced that it will begin unbundling Teams from Office 365 and Microsoft 365 in European markets. Antitrust Investigation  Following a complaint by Slack three years ago, this July the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation … Continue reading Tech News : EU Teams To Be Unbundled From 365 →

German company Lhyfe is showing how the challenges of producing green hydrogen can be met by using offshore floating wind-to-hydrogen turbines and electrolysers. The Advantages of Hydrogen  The great advantages of hydrogen as a fuel include dramatically reduced greenhouse gas emissions, it only produces water vapour as a by-product when burned, it has a high … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Offshore Wind Makes Green Renewable Hydrogen →

25 Years Of Google This Month! Did you know that Google was incorporated 25 years ago, in September 1998? Or that it was originally made from Lego? (sort of) Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were students at Stanford in 1996. Originally named “BackRub.” the name “Google” … Continue reading Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History … →

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned of the susceptibility of existing Large Language Models (LLMs) to malicious “prompt injection” attacks. These are where a user creates inputs intended to cause an AI model to behave in an unintended way e.g., generating offensive content or disclosing confidential information. This means that businesses integrating … Continue reading Security Stop Press : LLM Malicious “Prompt Injection” Attack Warning →

If you’d like an easy way to let others know where you are, e.g. a group of friends on a night out, or as a safety precaution, you can choose to share your location on WhatsApp. Here’s how: – Go to ‘Settings’ on your phone. – Tap ‘Apps’ (or scroll down on iPhone). – Select … Continue reading Tech Tip – Sharing Your Location In WhatsApp →

In this article, we take at what Google’s ‘Duet’ is, it’s features and potential benefits to businesses, and the price. Duet  Introduced in May this year, Duet AI in the Google Cloud is essentially Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Copilot. Duet is a paid-for, “always on” AI assistant and “collaborator” that is embedded within (and works across) all the Workspace … Continue reading Featured Article : Google’s Answer To Copilot →