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Ring’s latest AI-powered tool, designed to help find lost dogs and monitor wildfires, has prompted a backlash over how far neighbourhood camera networks should go. Search Party Expanded Ring, owned by Amazon, has just expanded its new Search Party feature across the United States, allowing its outdoor cameras to automatically scan for missing dogs reported…
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Recent research shows that AI large language models (LLMs) can be quietly poisoned during training with hidden backdoors that create a serious and hard to detect supply chain security risk for organisations deploying them. Sleeper Agent Backdoors Researchers say sleeper agent backdoors in LLMs pose a security risk to organisations deploying AI systems because they…
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UK adults are being offered free, government-benchmarked AI training for work as part of a national programme to upskill 10 million people by 2030 and address low confidence and adoption of artificial intelligence across the economy. UK Government Expands Free AI Training Programme The UK government has announced a major expansion of its national AI…
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With the global changes, we are not particularly surprised to hear that prices for Office 365 will be increasing. These price rises will begin on 1st July 2026 alongside the February currency price harmonising policy (see below). (View Microsoft release) Why the increase? Microsoft are introducing 1,100 new features coming in 2026, one of these…
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One in three adults in the UK have used artificial intelligence (AI) for companionship, emotional support or social interaction, according to new research from a government-backed AI safety body, a finding that takes on added significance during the Christmas and New Year period when loneliness and mental health pressures often peak. Frontier AI Trends The…
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The government has set out plans to expand the use of facial recognition and other biometrics across UK policing, describing it as the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. A National Strategy For Biometrics The Home Office has launched a ten week consultation to establish a new legal framework covering all police use…
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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…
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Shopify says artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving record levels of shopping activity, with traffic to its merchants’ stores up sevenfold since January and AI-attributed orders rising elevenfold, claiming it marks the start of a new “agentic commerce” era. Shopify’s AI Milestone Announced Alongside Strong Financials These latest figures were unveiled on 4 November 2025 during Shopify’s…
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Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries. Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter? Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming…
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New research from Arctic Wolf shows that most security leaders say they would sack staff who fall for phishing scams, even as incidents rise and leaders themselves admit to clicking malicious links. Hardening of Attitudes Arctic Wolf’s 2025 Human Risk Behaviour Snapshot reveals that 77 per cent of IT and security leaders say they have…
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