Posts by Paul Stradling

Australian regulators have taken Microsoft to court, alleging the company misled around 2.7 million Microsoft 365 users by implying they had to accept a higher-priced AI-powered plan or cancel altogether, while failing to reveal a cheaper alternative that was still available. What Happened and Why? The case focuses on Microsoft’s handling of its consumer subscription…

WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups, thereby letting users protect and recover their chat history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen lock instead of remembering a long password or storing a 64-digit recovery key. A Major Step in WhatsApp’s Encryption Journey WhatsApp has announced a new feature that allows users to encrypt their chat…

OpenAI has now finished converting itself into a for-profit public benefit corporation, while keeping a mission-led foundation on top, in what may be the most important restructuring so far in the commercial AI race. Started As Non-Profit OpenAI was originally founded (back in 2015) as a non-profit research lab with a stated mission to ensure…

OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes human-reviewable patches using OpenAI’s Codex…

Europe’s first full-scale data centre built inside a working mine in northern Italy is being hailed as a landmark in sustainable digital infrastructure, combining high-performance computing with energy efficiency and circular use of underground space. Who’s Behind the Project and Where Is It? The project, known as Trentino DataMine, is being developed in the San…

Incredibly, you can now make AI generated podcasts (one or two ‘presenters’) directly within your OneDrive account, so if your preferred learning style (or that of your audience) is auditory, this is a powerful way to present information … effortlessly! [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it…

A new report has revealed that AI-written code is already responsible for a significant share of security incidents, with one in five organisations suffering a major breach linked directly to code produced by generative AI tools. Vulnerabilities Found in AI Code The finding comes from cybersecurity company Aikido Security’s State of AI in Security &…

Amazon Web Services has issued a full apology and technical explanation after a 15-hour outage in its North Virginia data region took thousands of major platforms offline, exposing the internet’s heavy dependence on a handful of US cloud providers. What Happened? The incident began late on Sunday 19 October, when engineers at Amazon’s US-East-1 data…

Microsoft has introduced “Mico”, a new animated avatar for its Copilot assistant that can be transformed into the classic Clippy paper clip, a light-hearted feature that sits within a much wider update focused on making AI more personal, expressive, and easier to use across Microsoft’s ecosystem. What Microsoft Is Launching And When? Mico is the…

A UK competition court has ruled that Apple abused its market power with App Store fees, paving the way for compensation that lawyers say could total up to £1.5 billion for around 36 million iPhone and iPad users. What The Tribunal Decided The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) found that Apple held “near absolute market power” in two…