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October 2026

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October 31
- AI vendors are relearning the oldest rule in the data business
October 30
- The accountability gap behind one of AI's biggest risks
- Counting agents is the wrong scoreboard: Better questions for enterprise leaders
- Sovereignty is a spectrum and not a one-size-fits-all approach
- The AI Act's longer runway is an opportunity to build governance that lasts
- The AI data center race is now a race to power
- The imperative to prepare for AI-safe data security
- Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs in AI training — and it's about time AI companies faced the music
October 29
- AirPods Max 2 are my Headphones of the Year Award despite their few clear flaws — because when you do everything else this well, it just doesn't matter
- Oops! Apple just put its first laptop touchscreen on the wrong MacBook
- Are you still piloting?
- Why AI smart glasses need a privacy-first approach
- Rogue AI is a wake-up call for UK digital sovereignty
- Navigating the 'new normal': AI-powered exploits and discovery
October 28
- Why the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro's outstanding construction, new stamina metrics and Apple Watch-rivaling accuracy make it my Fitness Device of the Year award winner
- I'm not buying the iPhone Duo 'crackgate' controversy — a few faulty units does not constitute a major crisis for Apple
- Data centers, water myths, and what the numbers really say
- Why 'never trust, always verify - repeatably' security strategy for AI Agents, starts after login
- Why UK marketers need mobile-grade measurement before AI can deliver on ROI
- Why less data means improved security for businesses
October 27
- AI isn’t replacing thinking; it’s changing where we need to think
- Crowdsourcing the corporate brain: Closing polanyi’s paradox on the frontline
- Sovereign AI is about more than where data resides
- AI success depends on business outcomes, not usage vanity metrics
- AI agents are going rogue inside bank accounts — and this is exactly what I've been worried about
October 26
- IT and security leaders of the AI era must go back to basics and beware the hype
- Why human judgement still matters in AI-powered finance
- The shift to decision intelligence: Move beyond analytics to real time activation
- Preparing for a quantum-safe future
October 25
- Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'We have to do something useful with AI, or we'll quickly lose social permission' — challenging AI pioneers to step up their game
- 'A close contest': I put TCL's mid-range mini-LED against LG's most affordable OLED and despite a tight battle, I know which one I'd pick
October 24
- Quote of the day by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on touchscreens: 'After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off' — savaging a bitter rival's PC pivot
October 23
- Authentication does not equal authorization: Are we asking passkeys to prove too much?
- The loyalty illusion: Why happy customers are shopping around
- Your data is in Europe. Your technology still isn’t sovereign
- AI is rewriting the C-suite playbook
October 22
- Bringing SRE to the digital workplace: How IT can spend less time fixing problems
- The biggest AI security risk is doing nothing
- Why scrutiny of facial recognition needs to extend beyond policing
- What does it actually mean to treat data as an asset?
- 'It doesn't work': Steve Jobs on why there was never a touchscreen MacBook and why I think he'd totally love what's coming next
October 21
- When technology becomes part of the talent infrastructure
- Stop choosing the wrong Agentic AI use cases
- Foldable phones could be hot – in more ways than one
- Why enterprise AI needs real-time conversations, not just documents
October 20
- Elon Musk's stock grants and Anthropic's public fund are band-aids on an open sore and do not address AI's most fundamental and pressing problems
- Amazon's new Bee AI device can turn every conversation into a shopping opportunity — and that's deeply unsettling
- Microsoft has gone too far promoting Bing search, as Windows 11 users are again having to suffer a confusing and weird 'feature' in the Bing Wallpaper app
- The transformation trap: Why organizations are trying to change too much, too fast
- When the model takes away the moat
- Why AI is upending traditional technology pricing
- Can five degrees decide whether your network survives rising temperatures?
October 19
- Change is constant across your IT estate. But is it under control?
- You would not use a Ferrari for the school run. Why are you doing it for AI?
- Why AI coding is widening the software security gap
- Enterprise AI outcomes depend on the art of unlearning
October 17
- Are we seeing the first signs of Nvidia abandoning PC gamers? As the RTX 5090 seemingly disappears from shelves, I'm getting more worried about GeForce GPUs
October 16
- Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: 'The hottest new programming language is English' — signalling the shift to natural language dominance in the AI era
- The flying Tesla Roadster is an overbaked idea from my least favorite person
- Rethinking identity architecture to close the help desk security gap
- Why education IT teams must protect both human and machine identities
- Gartner: The quantum threat is already behind schedule
- AI adoption has a talent problem - here’s how to solve it
October 15
- The next evolution of observability starts with telemetry
- Hyper-personalizing European banking experience with AI
- AI Storagemaxxing: Your GPUs are optimized, what about your data?
- What it takes to move enterprise AI beyond the chatbot
October 14
- Quote of the day by software pioneer Eric S. Raymond: 'The end of software secrecy is almost upon us' — declaring victory for the open source movement
- I've tried Apple's HomeView, and it's the device that could bring your smart home together — and with less iPhone time
- The biggest misconceptions about web browsers and why they matter in the AI era
- The task trap: Why AI's biggest promise has nothing to do with speed
- Agentic AI is breaking the traditional software development rules
- AI isn't enough: Why store infrastructure will determine which retailers scale successfully
October 13
- 'Somebody’s gotta pay for all the useless Siri AI no one likes': I love my Apple TV 4K, but there's nothing compelling about the more-expensive new model — and Apple fans online feel even more strongly about it
- ChatGPT will soon start secretly watermarking its answers — here's what that means for the text you copy and share
- The era of passwords is coming to an end
- Enterprise IT infrastructure isn’t built for AI inference
- Governance is driving the UK's next wave of jobs
- Sovereign AI isn't just where your data lives
October 12
- Quote of the day by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks: 'The world is its own best model' — laying the foundations for modern physical AI
- 19 years ago, the iPhone broke the cell carrier business and built what we have today — and Apple's new Upgrade program could break it all over again
- What data centers need to consider when storing produced water
- The growing risk of SaaS sprawl requires a smarter approach to integration
- When one robot learns, every robot knows if they can communicate
- The more autonomous AI becomes, the more human strategy matters
October 11
- Nikon and Fujifilm's quiet year isn't the disaster you think it is — I believe these two aging cameras are still class-leading in 2026
October 9
- Debates over AI Sovereignty could result in a painful lesson for students
- Why identity needs a heartbeat, not a checkpoint
- Moving AI from pilot to production starts with the data
- Beyond the vault: Who's responsible for what banking sites share?
- The Google Pixel 11 might seem like a boring upgrade, but I'd still pick it over the Pixel 11 Pro — here's why
October 8
- Cyber resilience isn't measured in firewalls. It's measured in minutes
- Employee engagement is a problem, and businesses need a creative solution
- The most dangerous attacker of the past year looked completely ordinary
- The real test for physical AI starts after the pilot
October 7
- Elon Musk is renaming SpaceXAI to match Trump's new ‘Super Intelligence Force’ — but critics say the White House body 'isn’t the answer'
- The AI escape is a red herring. The real problem is we can't tell a good sandbox from a bad one
- AI agents don’t create new risk. They inherit it
- The next phase of the AI era: why building R&D talent is now a make-or-break investment
- Britain's NEET crisis and the factory retirement cliff are the same problem in disguise
October 6
- Garmin's new Approach S72 golf watch looks smart, excellent, and feature-filled as always — but it's not the one I was hoping for
- The hidden cost of AI agents is memory
- When identity isn’t human: securing the agentic enterprise
- Why governance and visibility are the real defense against AI sovereignty risks
- The human infrastructure behind AI-ready manufacturing
October 5
- How mid-market companies can capitalize on their AI advantage
- Why energy providers can’t afford a weekend of downtime
- Why agentic AI demands a new approach to enterprise security
- Who's really behind the login? AI agents are forcing a rethink
October 4
- We're 6 months into Microsoft's campaign to fix Windows 11 — here are 5 things it got right, and 3 glaring oversights
October 3
- Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: 'OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years' — critiquing the industry's overindulgence in large language models
October 2
- Bots, deepfakes and fake identities are sabotaging user research
- Financial Services’ next AI risk is the workflow nobody can explain
- Cyberattacks are the ultimate business continuity tests that nearly half of organizations fail
- When cheaper hosting costs more
October 1
- Quote of the day by IBM's Darío Gil: 'Not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines' — laying bare the almighty power of quantum computing
- Why AI hardware needs privacy built in from the start
- If an AI agent is attesting your controls, who’s attesting the agent?
- AI agents are ready to act, but do they understand your business?
- Don’t follow the herd on AI cost optimization – control compute this way
- The Vivo X Fold 6 takes better photos than my iPhone 18 Pro and weighs less than the iPhone Duo — I'm obsessed

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