News & resources

News & resources

Helpful updates and discussion to keep you informed of what’s current in the IT sector.

Due to the fast pace of the digital sector it pays to keep up to date with the latest news. Here we provide updates on any issues that might affect your business IT, plus share any developments happening within our company.

Security Stop Press : Severe Browser Security Flaw Receives Emergency Updates

Security Stop Press : Severe Browser Security Flaw Receives Emergency Updates

A severe browser security flaw, tacked as CVE-2023-4863 and then CVE-2023-5129, has led to emergency updates in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Apple’s Safari browsers. 

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Tech Tip - Google Chrome's Link To Highlighted Text Feature

Tech Tip - Google Chrome's Link To Highlighted Text Feature

If you’ve found a specific passage of text in a web page that you’d like to show to another person, Google Chrome has a built-in feature that allows you to share a link that goes straight to that t

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Featured Article : Google's Bard Now Manages Your Email

Featured Article : Google's Bard Now Manages Your Email

Google has announced that it is embedding its ‘Bard’ chatbot into its apps and services with the launch of ‘Bard Extensions’. 

Bard 

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Tech Insight : Blockchain Bill

Tech Insight : Blockchain Bill

In this insight, we look at the introduction of the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (ETDA), what it means and why it’s so significant, plus its implications. 

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Tech News : Copyrights Conundrum: OpenAI Sued

Tech News : Copyrights Conundrum: OpenAI Sued

It’s been reported that a trade group for U.S. authors (including John Grisham) has sued OpenAI, accusing it of unlawfully training its chatbot ChatGPT on their work. 

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Tech News : Volunteer To Be A Cyborg, Anyone?

Tech News : Volunteer To Be A Cyborg, Anyone?

Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has announced that it’s looking for recruits for its first in-human clinical trial of a brain implant. 

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Sustainability-in-Tech : 'Cobots' To Restore Reefs

Sustainability-in-Tech : 'Cobots' To Restore Reefs

With many of the world’s coral reefs being damaged by heat and acidification, one startup has developed a system to restore reefs at scale with the help of trained AI robots..

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Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History ...

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History ...

Falcon 1 Launched : 28th September 2008

Rocket Man!

This week on September 28 2008 SpaceX managed to finally get the Falcon 1 rocket into space.

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Security Stop Press : Ransomware Attack On UK IT Service Provider

Security Stop Press : Ransomware Attack On UK IT Service Provider

It’s been reported that according to a dark web victim blog of cybercrime hacking gang ‘Donut,’ Nottingham-based IT Service Provider Agilitas may have been the subject of a ransomware attack.

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Tech Tip - How To Save Time By Sending Public (But Private-Looking) Messages In WhatsApp

Tech Tip - How To Save Time By Sending Public (But Private-Looking) Messages In WhatsApp

If you’d like to use WhatsApp to save time when asking a group of people the same question, making it look as though you’ve asked each of them individually and not having to open each chat to ask t

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