Tech News : Microsoft Drops Twitter From Advertising Platform

Following Twitter’s announcement two months ago that it will be charging a minimum of $42,000 per month to enterprise users of its API, Microsoft is dropping Twitter from its advertising…
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Tech News : Google To Use Generative AI For Ad Campaigns

A report in the Financial Times (drawing upon an internal Google Presentation) claims that Google plans to use AI to generate new advertisements, drawing upon those already created by humans.…
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Tech Trivia : Did You Know?

The Birth of The IC Around this time 62 years ago (April 25th, 1961), Robert Noyce (co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor) patented his invention – a monolithic integrated circuit (IC). Jack…
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Security Stop-Press : WordPress Sites Being Hacked Through Old Plugin

Cybersecurity researchers at GoDaddy-owned Sucuri have warned that an old plugin called Eval PHP, last updated a decade ago, is being used to hack WordPress websites. The plugin, which creates…
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Tech Tip – Ask For Sources In ChatGPT

If you’ve produced some content using ChatGPT and, knowing that it can sometimes generate incorrect information, would quickly like to check that the source data is from reputable sites, here’s…
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Tech Tip – Changing Your WhatsApp Wallpaper Background

If you'd like to personalise who you're chatting to by using their photo as a background in the chat, or you'd simply like to change and brighten up your WhatsApp…
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Security Stop Press : Public USB Charger “Juice Jacking” Warning

The FBI has warned that cyber criminals are hijacking public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices. The FBI says that software installed through a corrupted USB…
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Sustainability : Quantum Magnetic Material Discovery Could Deliver Ultrafast Sustainable Devices

The discovery of new quantum materials with magnetic properties could bring ultra-fast, more energy efficient, and sustainable computers and mobile devices. Quantum Breakthrough In Sweden  A research team at team…
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Tech-Trivia : Did You Know?

This Week in History : April 23, 2005: A Trip to the Zoo and $1.6 Billion Later … On April 23, 2005, at exactly 8:31:52 pm local time, the first ever YouTube…
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Tech News : Quantum Threat Growing

Following large investments in quantum computing followed by the ensuing advancement of this technology in recent years, as well as looking forward to benefits this could bring, there is also…
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