Cyber Security

Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £23.8 million after finding that the company’s move to digital landlines left thousands of vulnerable telecare customers at direct risk of harm. What Ofcom Has Decided On 1 December 2025, Ofcom announced that it had imposed a £23.8 million penalty on Virgin Media for serious failings during its programme to…

WordPress has introduced Telex, an AI powered tool that turns simple written prompts into working WordPress blocks, opening up custom development to people who cannot write code. What Is Telex? Telex is an experimental system that converts natural language instructions into functional Gutenberg blocks, which are the modular elements that make up WordPress sites. The…

BT has launched a new UK-based sovereign platform designed to give organisations tighter control over their data, systems, and AI infrastructure at a time of rising geopolitical tensions and growing public sector reliance on cloud services. A New Foundation For Sovereign Services Sovereign services are digital services run entirely within UK infrastructure and UK legal…

Global use of embedded SIMs is finally starting to accelerate as international travel and wider device support push the technology towards the mainstream. What Is An eSIM And Why Does It Matter Now? An eSIM (embedded SIM) is a programmable chip built directly into a phone or other device, replacing the removable plastic SIM card.…

As reported by PLTFRM, virtual sales avatars are now outperforming human presenters across major ecommerce platforms, changing how online retail content is produced and delivered. Who Is PLTFRM? PLTFRM is a Shanghai based creative agency that specialises in digital advertising and ecommerce. Over the past two years it has become one of the leading suppliers…

The Aisuru botnet, built from millions of hijacked routers and other cheap IoT devices, has driven DDoS attacks to levels the internet has never seen before. Cloudflare, the internet security provider, reports that Aisuru now controls up to four million infected devices, mainly spread across Asia. Indonesia is the biggest source of its traffic. These…

Global data centre electricity demand is now forecast to almost triple by 2035, forcing urgent questions about how to power the AI boom sustainably. The Forecasts Point To A Steep Rise New analysis from BloombergNEF suggests data centres could be drawing around 106 gigawatts of power by 2035, up from about 40 gigawatts today. This…

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…

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…

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,…