Cyber Security

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Global investment now favours data centres over new oil supplies, reflecting the scale of electricity demand created by AI and the increasing importance of digital infrastructure to national economies. Data Spending Overtakes Oil For The First Time The International Energy Agency has reported that global spending on data centres will reach around 580 billion US…

Google has introduced a new set of AI tools that allow developers and non-technical users to build interactive map projects from simple text prompts, marking one of the biggest upgrades to Google Maps Platform in years. AI Agents Designed To Build Projects, Not Just Maps Google Maps has long been one of the world’s most…

Apple has introduced a new Mini Apps Partner Programme that halves App Store commissions for qualifying mini apps to 15 percent, marking a significant shift in how Apple wants developers to build and monetise app-within-app experiences. A New Approach To App Store Revenue Apple has announced that developers who host mini apps inside a larger…

Rightmove’s share price has fallen by more than a quarter after the UK’s biggest property portal told investors it will slow near-term profit growth in order to fund a major new programme of artificial intelligence investment. Rightmove Shares Plunge Rightmove used its early November trading update to outline a significant shift in strategy, announcing plans…