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June 2026

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June 30
- 48 hours with the MemoMind One XR glasses — a slow AI, lack of a camera, and disappointing audio left me desperate for more
- I'm an AI fan, but Netflix's use of an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice for its Willy Wonka reality show broke me — and we've officially gone too far
- Are we going to let data centers take all the power, water, and clean air?
- The AI job paradox and the missing link in productivity gains
- AI adoption problems are usually organizational problems in disguise
- Claude coding addiction and why it can lead to startup burnout
- OpenAI is copying Apple’s biggest competitive advantage — and Nvidia should be paying attention
- AI is starting to look a lot like the early days of cloud – and the real race is operational
June 29
- Quote of the day by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates: 'If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot' — devising policy ideas to counter automation risks
- Xbox disputes claims GTA 6 is selling 8x more copies on PlayStation, but I'm not convinced it's doing great
- 30 years later, my Hotmail email address still works, even though I won't read your message if you email me there
- 5 WWDC features I’ll actually use more than Apple’s new Siri AI
- How AI observability helps organizations move from experimentation to production
- How to future-proof enterprise operations in the age of invisible AI
- How universities can better prepare graduates for the demands of the modern workplace
- The businesses paying for AI aren't going back
- The AI infrastructure boom is bigger than GPUs
June 28
- Quote of the day by filmmaker Tim Burton: 'It's like a robot taking your humanity, your soul' — a scathing slapdown on AI cloning artistic styles
- The Ninja AutoBarista Pro accommodates two totally different coffee-drinkers — and I wish all coffee machines made life this easy
- The Persona 6 teaser already has me feeling hopeful about the series' future — here's why
- Ice cream for breakfast? Ninja Creami makes a healthy frozen breakfast treat easy
June 27
- Quote of the day by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel: 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible' — a foundational thesis of the new tech elite
- Power on... The Bear season 5's ending — and what its finale got right that Stranger Things and The Boys' last episodes didn't
June 26
- Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'People talk about AI reducing jobs — complete nonsense' — pushing back against automation fears
- Why operational systems struggle to keep up with real-world execution
- Know your agent: building the foundation of autonomous commerce
- The dual approach: why AI is both an enabler and a responsibility in telecoms
- I'm a digital minimalist, which is why I think more Android phone makers need to take cues from Nothing OS
June 25
- Quote of the day by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share' — a staggering misread of the future of consumer devices
- Apple's price hike choice almost guarantees more expensive iPhones as the RAM crisis is far from over: 'We are not at the bottom and will take more time to climb out,' expert says
- How autonomous systems are reshaping warehouse operations
- How banks can build a risk-intelligent approach to core modernization
- The AI governance gap: why AI is moving faster than the rules meant to control it
- Solving semiconductors’ energy paradox: four areas fabs can target
- Why operational infrastructure is redefining private credit
- Scaling AI is about governance, not technology
- AI is messy: here's how to clean up your data before it derails your strategy
- Why you should care if your robot is a copycat
June 24
- Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Privacy is no longer a social norm — declaring the erosion of social boundaries
- Stop saying John Ternus has to fix Apple — the company is fine, his job is simply to carry Cook's legacy forward and yes, to roll out more winning designs
- Why wearable AI must reduce cognitive overload
- As the 2026 World Cup expands, so does the threat surface
- The Blair Witch Project is getting a reboot from Lionsgate — and as a long-time horror fan I'm not convinced it's going to be any good
- Why enterprises need to rethink data in the AI era
- The invisible traffic problem: why AI agents are your biggest blind spot
June 23
- Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Our own information is being weaponized against us with military efficiency' — a scathing critique of the modern advertising data pipeline
- The 3 JBL Bluetooth speakers I’d actually buy with my own money — I tested them all against their rivals, and these are the real winners for all budgets
- From alert fatigue to autopilot fatigue: How agentic AI shifts cyber risk
- From research to reality: fighting industrialized financial crime
- How AI innovation is outpacing regulation
- Agentic AI's crossroads: guardrails or massive fails
- Cooling just became the most strategic choice in AI infrastructure
- I've used Sony's WH-1000XM6 headphones every day since they came out a year ago — here's why they're my favorite headphones, even over Bose, AirPods and Sony’s fancier Collexion
- Why enterprise AI is forcing a rethink in cost control
- Secure AI will be defined by emulated human behavior
- Agentic business: the new growth engine for SMEs
June 22
- Quote of the day by Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey: 'There's no moral high ground in using inferior technology' — challenging the dominant narrative over AI use in defense
- How AI fraud rings are taking on retail
- Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough
- How AI can unleash the next generation of European ‘soonicorns’
- The AI second brain: The future of knowledge work
- Self-driving cars aren’t the challenge – proving how they think is
- When trust becomes the attack surface
- Rethinking data science skills in the AI era: Practice still matters
- When AI agents start shopping for us, retail’s identity stack needs a rewrite
June 20
- Quote of the day by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: 'There is no compression algorithm for experience' — wisdom on avoiding shortcuts in life and business
June 19
- Quote of the day by Microsoft co-founder and ex-CEO Bill Gates: 'We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the ten' — insights on the nature of progress
- Why cybersecurity needs hybrid AI, not platform consolidation
- As growth gets harder, AI emerges as the key to MSP success
- Shadow AI – a step too far, or an opportunity?
- AI exposes the M&A integration gaps that governance must fix
- The Vimeo breach and the dangers of delegated trust
- Space as the next network edge: The evolution of global connectivity
- The enterprise AI gold rush is dead, and most companies aren’t ready for what comes next
- Britain is betting on AI. Now it needs the network that will run it
- 'We've seen an increase in Blu-ray orders of 10,000%': I spoke to a Blu-ray and vinyl agency about their Blu-ray sales and it's given me even more hope for physical media's survival
June 18
- Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do" — remarks on where automation got it wrong
- Illinois smart glasses driving ban continues ongoing efforts to restrict the tech’s usage — but I kinda agree with this one
- Communication tools that cannot be monitored pose a corporate risk
- "$10.22 million and counting": US cyber breaches have become a boardroom issue
- The role of CSPs in natural disaster recovery
- AI agents won’t transform commerce until retailers redesign how decisions get made
- Why transparent AI matters for enterprise trust
- Why defense can no longer rely on commercial cyber threat intelligence
- Why Australia’s data center boom is becoming a balancing act
- The enemy within: how to stop a simple Teams message taking down your business
June 17
- Quote of the day by Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: 'Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use' — defining a new era for humankind
- Intelligence-in-Motion, the next logical step in the Agentic AI journey
- How AI is exposing enterprise operating models
- Why security leaders are cautious about agentic AI
- Why most AI projects don’t deliver ROI and how to fix it
- Avoiding the auto-fail under cyber essentials’ new rules
- How healthcare practices should evaluate AI vendors
- How can businesses respond to the next generation of AI?
- AI agents in live operations require new standards and management
June 16
- Quote of the day by former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: 'Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution' — commentary on society's relationship with programming
- RAM crisis or not, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ should not cost anywhere near $1,800 — but I fear this is just the start of overpriced handhelds
- In the age of AI-based threats, zero-trust is no longer enough
- From finance to human trafficking: how banks can protect customers during the World Cup
- Travel disruption is a productivity nightmare – AI is the game changing solution
- Cost of ransomware recovery too high? Here’s how to stop footing the bill
- How AI-ready NAS is rewriting enterprise data management
- Finance survived the quantum threat by preparing early. Mythos won't make it so easy
- Stop treating AI as the strategy
June 15
- 'AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies' - quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
- Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on threats to undermine privacy
- ‘Phone prices are going up and they’ll keep going up into next year’ — yet another tech CEO says the RAM crisis won’t end soon
- Why UK data sovereignty is the next competitive advantage for digital industries
- Making AI usable for UK business leaders
- Stop thinking of AI data centers as compute systems
- Why AI guardrails need common sense built around defensibility
- Why your help desk is still your biggest security risk
- Measuring AI ROI at tool level is missing the point
- How emerging tech is rewriting cyberwarfare
- Why AI pilots stall — and what organizations must fix to scale AI successfully
June 14
- "Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet" - quote of the day by antivirus pioneer John McAfee
- I tested a budget RGB TV and equivalent mini-LED TV side by side — and while RGB gets us closer to OLED performance, it still needs to learn a few things from its old-school counterpart
- I was bored of my usual fitness apps, but comprehensive fitness tracker BetterMe dwarfs them in terms of scale
June 13
- 'Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place' - quote of the day by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati
- iOS 27's Screen Time update looks impressive — but it didn't wow me like Android 17's Pause Point
- Phoebe Bridgers has rekindled the 'phone-free gigs' debate again — I fully support a ban and this poll shows most tech fans do too
June 12
- Quote of the day by inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee: "Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves" — highlighting the longevity of data as a resource
- I’m a certified Apple hater, but new Apple Intelligence tools like Spatial Reframe mean I'm considering a switch from Android
- The gender data gap and the need for representation in AI
- Why most AI programs stall, and what it will take to scale them
- The shift from workflow automation to autonomous enterprises
- AI innovation meets a familiar identity security reality
- How the gaming and gambling industry can strengthen their cyber defenses
- How AI is changing the fight against invoice fraud
- Not prepared for cloud outages? You should be
- Holistic AI adoption: the key to unlocking enterprise value
June 11
- MSI’s special edition Titan 18HX gaming laptop is incredibly over the top — and I’m obsessed
- Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: 'Metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall' — a prediction that hit wide of the mark
- Ensuring variety in today’s AI-native era
- Not all AIs are equal so CIOs need to prioritize actions when assessing risks
- The key steps that will enable organizations to scale Physical AI
- 'Wait... what?' — Lionel Messi’s new ChatGPT World Cup partnership feels like marketing written by AI for people who don’t watch soccer
- Everyone is fighting over the wrong part of agentic commerce
- Why encryption alone is not enough in modern communications
- The factory floor ran out of people, and no hiring strategy will fix it
- If AI transparency rules weaken, enterprise tech teams will inherit the risk
- How the UK is tackling industrialized crypto fraud
- I’m excited for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Switch 2, but I wish it was a sequel to Majora’s Mask instead
June 10
- Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction
- Pennsylvanian lawmakers want new smart glasses safety rules — and for once a government is making a sensible technology decision
- Security at machine speed: why the SOC must be rebuilt for the AI era
- The single-cloud trap: why UK businesses’ multi-cloud strategy risks leaving them exposed
- AI is reaching finance’s core systems: Here’s what it takes to run it there
- It's time tech professionals had a standard to adhere to
- The vulnerability crisis: How AI is shrinking the window for defense
- Kill your bad ideas or they’ll drain your AI budget
- 81% of teams ship broken code: Mythos made that inexcusable
- A new era of privacy: programmable disclosure
- I'm a big Screen Time user — and Apple's shiny new iOS 27 features won't matter without a major bug fix
June 9
- Quote of the day by Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is "more profound than electricity or fire" — a reminder of its role as a critical resource in the modern world
- Spatial Reframing in iOS 27 might finally turn me into a photo pro — here’s how it works, and why it could be your iPhone’s secret storage weapon
- The RAM crisis will last 'quite a few years' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — so despite hiked prices, I think if you want a new laptop, now might be the time to buy
- AI agents are being deployed – but not to full effect
- Why Anthropic’s closed approach may be safer than OpenAI’s
- Why hackers hit Canvas during finals week
- How AI is outpacing cybersecurity and what firms must do next
- The next identity frontier: Verified workforce and the rise of agentic trust
- Voice is the next cybersecurity battleground, and AI is accelerating the risk
- The impact of the data center obsession on construction
- Calculating the business value of enterprise storage technology
- watchOS 27 may have improved the Apple Watch's AI features, but a Siri AI health coach was needed to rival the Google Fitbit Air
June 8
- Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough' — on the nature of disruption
- Siri AI’s new voice customization could have trumped Alexa+, but scant HomeOS updates stall the win for Apple
- Apple just gave 'Siri AI' its biggest upgrade ever — whether iPhone users asked for it or not
- Mainframe modernization is about trust, not migration
- Age verification for social media is the right idea built the wrong way
- AI in behavioral healthcare: Intentionally designing where clinicians belong in the loop
- What the OpenClaw vulnerability reveals about the future of agentic AI security
- Think your customers will love your shiny new AI chatbot? You might be in for a bad surprise
- The AI ROI gap: Why enterprise intelligence is stalling at the infrastructure level
- Mythos enters the chat
- Why sovereignty has become the new measure of cyber resilience
June 7
- Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: "What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds" — how technology has augmented us all
- I asked Siri if it knew what to expect at WWDC 2026 and its answer was so predictably disappointing — I really hope Apple can fix this
June 6
- Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang: "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful" — on quantifying the existential risks posed by AI
- Hasbro is turning Optimus Prime and Mr. Potato Head into AI-powered voices — which is one sure-fire way to ruin our childhood memories
June 5
- Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: "When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical" — wisdom on the power of simplicity
- I just watched a robot kick a child and I'm over it — let's keep robots away from people until they're 100% safe
- Anthropic's bizarre call for everyone to slow down on AI is a pipe dream — here's why that will never happen
- Why everyday Workplace Tech Frustration is hybrid work's biggest unsolved problem
- Rethinking cyber defense in government with continuous exposure management
- Why 95% of enterprise GPUs sit idle while AI startups can't get compute
- When dust means downtime: why data centers need rigorous preventive maintenance
- AI without regret: Enabling speed, insight, and automation while maintaining control
- Inside Europe’s factories - why AI still isn’t delivering
- Why decades-old attacks still work, and why that should worry you
- Modders are turning Meta Ray-Bans into spy glasses — it’s not cool, it’s creepy, and I hate it
- Your AI content sounds right. That's exactly the problem.
- Someone is impersonating our business: 5 ways to fight digital squatting
- Looking to buy a new Samsung mini-LED TV for the World Cup? I tested two side-by-side and it's an 'opportune time' to pick up 2025's flagship set with Prime Day coming up
June 4
- Quote of the day by Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" — opening up on how reliant we are on chatbots
- Meta AI's recent hack is a terrifying wake-up call for anyone who puts their trust in AI systems
- Humanoid robots won’t be the future: purpose-built robots will
- How AI and advanced technologies will change the roles of supply chain workers of the future
- In the AI era, is Shopify the new WordPress?
- What are MEMS – and how they change your world: from computers to speakers
- The waitlist is not the control: Why frontier cyber AI needs business-side guardrails
- The 5 common mistakes enterprises make when choosing AI tools (and how to avoid them)
- A live operational risk: Why AI agents are outrunning your security
- AI means CIOs need sovereign cloud more than ever
June 3
- Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether [we] possess the maturity to wield it" — warnings on the looming threat of beyond-human AI
- WWDC 2026 could be Apple's most important event in years, and it doesn't just hinge on Siri — here are 3 ways it can (and should) deliver
- AI promised productivity but IT teams got cognitive overload instead
- Why building two data centers a week won’t fix AI’s bottleneck
- Empowered patients, smarter pathways: wearables and the future of health tech
- The next evolution of the penetration test must include agentic AI
- How compliance can unlock AI innovation at scale
- Quarterly tax reporting is here – is HMRC ready?
- Delivering AI systems enterprise users can’t live without
- How technology delays are affecting NHS staff productivity and patient services today
- Healthcare cyber risk in 2026: What the claims data actually shows
- The Trump White House is ready to regulate AI, but it's exactly the wrong body to do so, and its control could become a problem
June 2
- Quote of the day by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: "Quantum is where AI was five years ago" — insight on the next big tech craze
- 'I think it's a good thing': Intel seemingly 'welcomes the competition' from Nvidia RTX Spark CPU — but I doubt that's the case behind closed doors
- Gemini warned me humans might review my chats — but turning it off comes with a surprising downside
- Solving the enterprise data optimization problem
- AR glasses are here – and displays are defining their future
- The cyber risk framework protecting your organization wasn't built for this adversary
- The hidden enterprise security risk of consumer-grade tools
- The AI availability gap is real, and it has nothing to do with the model
June 1
- Okay Sonos, where is my TV sound system with real left and right front speakers? Sony beat you to to the punch, the tech secretly exists in your products already — it's time to catch up
- Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
- Sam Altman and OpenAI face a new suit for 'their careless introduction of ChatGPT to Florida and the world' — but it doesn't make sense to hold AI accountable for every bad outcome
- Ninja has solved the biggest, most disgusting problem with home coffee makers, and as a barista, I can't believe nobody thought of it earlier
- The dashboard won’t save you: Why visibility doesn’t improve security
- The biggest cyber threats businesses face in 2026
- Call me a soothsayer, because I totally saw The Sims 4 Bridgerton collab coming — but it’s the first time I’ve enjoyed a crossover this much
- Your cloud vendors are shipping AI-generated code. More outages are coming.
- How fintech designed interoperable systems that actually work
- Stop managing vulnerabilities and start managing scanner assumptions
- 'Welcome to the family' — Qualcomm says it's glad Nvidia is joining the Arm race with the RTX Spark
- AI agents shouldn’t run your supply chain
- AI is reshaping the finance industry, but governance concerns remain front of mind for CFOs
- I put the LG G6 and LG B6 OLED TVs side-by-side, and exploring the nuances of color depth and HDR brightness across the range makes me more certain than the LG C6 is the real star of 2026 — here’s how the flagship and budget OLED tech compares

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