WhatsApp’s plan to let people communicate without revealing their phone numbers has run into immediate regulatory opposition in India, turning what began as a new privacy feature into a much wider debate about online anonymity, fraud and how messaging platforms should balance privacy with security.
Read More A US fusion company has demonstrated a new way of converting energy from a fusion plasma directly into electricity, while separate work on advanced electrical conductors could dramatically reduce the amount of power lost as heat, highlighting how the clean energy challenge is increasingly about efficiency as well as generation.
Read More Cloudflare has joined forces with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify to develop a new internet protocol designed to help websites distinguish genuine visitors from malicious bots without relying on CAPTCHAs, forced logins or invasive tracking, in what could become one of the biggest changes to how people prove their identity online in decades.
Read More Issue 59 – featuring the latest news on banning social media access to the under 16s, Trumps latest, great news for ALS sufferers and a couple of our best Tech Tips.
Read More Good Morning and happy last Friday of May.
Hose yourself down as we’re about to make you hotter and sweatier with our pick of the top IT News, Tech Tips and Security Warnings that we’ve featured in the last month!
And if that doesn’t make you warm and moist then we’ve got last month’s issue below (to up your temperature a little more).
Read More One of the easiest ways to avoid accidentally revealing emails, Teams chats, confidential documents, browser tabs, or other sensitive information during a presentation is to create a separate desktop in Windows just for screen sharing. Here’s how to do it.
Read More If Gemini AI prompts in Google Docs are getting in the way of your writing, there’s a quick way to turn them off and regain a cleaner, more focused workspace.
Read More The Trump administration has taken the unusual step of intervening in an environmental lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, arguing that the data centre at the centre of the dispute is so important to national security that it should be protected from legal action seeking to restrict its power supply.
Read More A brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has enabled a man with advanced ALS to communicate with remarkable accuracy, return to full-time employment, and use a computer independently for nearly two years, marking one of the most significant real-world demonstrations of the technology to date.
Read More Children under the age of 16 will be banned from using major social media platforms in the UK from Spring 2027 under government plans that represent one of the most significant attempts yet to reshape how young people interact with the online world. What Has Been Announced? Before his resignation, […]
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