Digital up-skilling “crucial”
Businesses are being urged to help colleagues and customers boost their digital skillset, following reports that the majority feel they’re falling behind. The changes in how many people work as a result of the pandemic has put a greater emphasis than ever on digital...
Uber suffers hack as employee throws open the door
Ride hailing app Uber has become the latest high-profile business to fall foul of hackers, with one of the company’s own employees thought to be the weak link. The audacious hacker managed to not only get access to the tightly locked down system, but unveiled their...
ISPs tighten up email defences – What do you need to do?
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been developing and implementing defence tools of their very own, in a bid to keep email inboxes safe. However, these developments could cause some issues in the immediate term, as users or email providers lag behind the latest...
Organise your bookmarks in Chrome
Bookmarks are a fantastic tool for keeping webpages available at the touch of a button. They not only offer a way to save pages to read later, but also allow you to open web-based workstations quickly, if you have a suite of sites or programmes you use for specific...
Big calls and controversies – The tech decisions facing new PM Liz Truss
Britain’s tech industry is waiting with bated breath to hear what’s to come from new Prime Minister Liz Truss, with some big issues sat in her inbox. Perhaps the biggest and most pressing decision concerns what to do with DCMS (the Department of Digital, Culture,...
Race to victory
This past weekend saw a podium finish for the M2 Computing engineered kart, with sponsored driver Harvey Roffe behind the wheel, winning round 4 of the TKM Extreme British Kart Championships at the Whilton Mill kart circuit. It takes a lot of hard work to be...
Britain set for ‘digital poverty’ unless the government intervenes
Millions of British children are set to become digitally unskilled workers unless action is taken now, according to charity group the Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA). It claims that the UK economy could be stifled, and young people’s job prospects hampered, if the...
Government makes it easier to access a broadband social tariff
The government has rolled out a new system that will help broadband providers easily verify whether customers are in receipt of social care, so they can be offered discounted tariffs for their internet connectivity. Broadband providers have offered social tariffs for...
Ask a stupid question… Google no longer gives you a stupid answer
Google is to stop giving answers to deliberately misleading questions, as it makes improvements to the AI of its Featured Snippets tool. For all its trustworthiness and near-ubiquity, Google can still be out-foxed by simply semantic tricks – providing answers to trick...
Cyber cuckoos: Don’t forget recruitment when considering your security
Keeping your business protected against fraud and cybercrime doesn’t start and end with your infrastructure – recruitment should be a key consideration. This is the advice from ComputerWeekly.com, which argues that many companies forget that hiring new staff members...