Hands On Our Best Bits! – Issue 57
Good Morning and Happy National Hairball Awareness Day to all those who celebrate.

Believe it or not it is the last Friday of the month and like it or not (joke) we’re showing you our Best Bits again!

If you missed Issue 56, firstly why 😕? Secondly, here’s your 2nd chance – click on the image below to check it out – don’t let me down 😉 and thirdly, let us know what you think of our new look!💅
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Do You Use Booking.com?
The online travel agency has recently reported a data breach involving customer reservation details and the exposed data is already being used to carry out highly convincing ‘reservation hijack’ scams.

Click below to see why this breach matters more than you think.
AI Models Caught Protecting
Each Other?
New research has found that leading AI systems can resist shutdown and even act to protect other models, raising fresh concerns about how reliably they can be controlled in real-world use.

So is this as horrifying as they are leading us to believe?

Possibly…
Greece To Ban Social Media For Under-15s
Greece is set to ban social media access for under-15s from 2027, marking a significant step in a growing global effort to limit the impact of platforms on young people’s health and behaviour.

Good idea for the UK or just not going to work, read our article to get the full facts.
Have You Heard of Q-Day?
Q-Day refers to the point at which a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break widely-used cryptographic systems and encryption AND the date of this has just been brought forward to 2029…

… and the experts are getting a little uneasy.
Tech Firms Declared Targets In
Iran Conflict
Apple, Microsoft, Google and Nvidia are among the 18 major US tech firms that have been named as ‘legitimate targets’ by the Iran Revolutionary Guard…

…highlighting the fact that data centres and cloud platforms are now being treated as part of the battlefield.
Back Button Hijacking Meets It’s Match?
Have you ever used a website and not been able to leave using the back button?

This annoying tactic is called Back Button Hijacking and Google has finally had enough. Google are introducing their new spam policy that could see offending sites pushed down or removed from search results.
Use Version History To Recover Overwritten Files
Both Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace automatically save previous versions of files, so you can quickly restore an earlier version if something is overwritten, deleted or changed by mistake.
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