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August 2026

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August 14
- The operational gap in R&D Tax: Where good claims break down
- AI is making cyber threats faster, but trust will define which businesses survive
- AI agents are inside the enterprise – are your security foundations ready for them?
- The first 24 hours: why supply chain resilience is now a decision-speed challenge
- Beware the token trap: Why saving on inference might put your ADLC at risk
- Why open source AI is worth fighting for
- Why operational excellence now defines mobile service quality
- Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage
August 13
- 'When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before' — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton on the birth of software engineering
- How AI agents will change how people work — and what they need from a PC
- Bad news: your AI application isn't that special
- In an era of deepfakes, can digital evidence still be trusted?
- Tokenomics: AI Has an income statement - it’s time to read it
- Is Big Tech's grip on global influence already unbreakable?
- Why employees, not threat actors, are 2026’s biggest risk
- Data sovereignty is more than a pin on a map
- What is Tokenmaxxing, and why should businesses care about it?
- Is the Sky Glass Gen 2 worth the money? I've used it at home for more than a year — here are my thoughts on it compared to rivals from LG, Samsung and Sony
August 12
- The Google Pixel Watch 5's Insulin Resistance Trends might be the biggest deal in smartwatches in ages — for better or worse
- 'C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success' — Quote of the day by the creator of the programming language Dennis Ritchie
- I read Mark Zuckerberg's 'The Future is for Everyone' AI manifesto and it almost drove me insane
- Why organizations are falling into an AI Security Illusion
- ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words — here’s how that’s even possible, and how EU rules could push OpenAI and Google to follow suit
- Trustworthy AI starts with surviving production failures
- Why AI is accelerating old cyber risks, not creating new ones
- The UK's on-device scanning plan is a threat to enterprise environments
- Enterprise AI needs a new model for behavioral intelligence
- Building the case for specialized AI
- AI image tools: a game changer for creativity and retail’s multi-billion-dollar abuse problem
- Cybersecurity’s identity crisis: why trust can no longer begin and end at login
August 11
- Quote of the day by musician Nick Cave on AI-generated lyrics: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' — dismissing the use of AI in the creative process
- Apple and the curse of the mythical next thing
- Five questions to test whether an AI stack is truly under your control
- The 6 myths of agile project delivery (and how to solve them)
- The AI era is creating a new CTO
- How SMBs turn AI into lasting business value
- UK businesses don't have a CX innovation problem. They have an operational readiness problem.
- Preparing for post-quantum cryptography: Building a practical roadmap
- Data movement is the new performance battleground in semiconductor design
- AI transformation is now a leadership test
August 10
- 'It's Stalin's dream' — Quote of the day by software pioneer Richard Stallman on the tracking capabilities of cell phones
- Why business leaders need to take quantum seriously
- I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt
- Age verification failed. Regulating VPNs won't fix it
- Why AI-powered jobsite intelligence is key to maximizing construction productivity
- Lessons from the World Cup for building more resilient workforces
- Why financial institutions need a clearer approach to AI governance
- Why tech vendors are key to solving AI's adoption problem
- Without global interoperability, digital IDs can't deliver on their promise
- How AI Is transforming outage response during high traffic events
August 9
- Quote of the day by venture capitalist John Doerr on the Segway: 'It'll be bigger than the internet' — a wild miscalculation about the future of mobility
- This new TV tracking app could do for shows what Letterboxd does for movies
August 8
- Quote of the day by Julian Assange: 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever'
- The RAM crisis just hit a new low — here's my advice on what to do based on 30 years of writing about GPUs, memory and PC components
- After 2 weeks with the Garmin Cirqa, I've fallen back in love with 'vibe running' and ditched my regular watch — and the Strava obsession it enables
August 7
- Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination
- I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device
- Poor data has become enterprise AI's weakest link
- AI was supposed kill my company but we're thriving - here's why
- Quantum's greatest breakthrough may be trust
- Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
- 5 ways AI is changing the way businesses recruit, hire, and train their workforce
- 'Great music is made by people' — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create
- Why AI infrastructure planning must happen now
- Behind every goal: the technology delivering the World Cup to billions
- Do you really know who is on your payroll?
August 6
- Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: 'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things' — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives
- Enterprise AI requires flexible orchestration over risky model lock-in
- Security's AI advantage will go to the organizations already built for accountability
- How can organizations help ensure they're optimizing ROI from their AI investments?
- Why accountability is the next battleground in UK business connectivity
- How open-source malware is re-targeting UK supply chains
- Microsoft’s EWS shutdown should be treated as a warning, not a one-off
- Identity and attack paths - can you stop hackers getting from A to B?
- Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
August 5
- Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Luckey: 'There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor'
- Are we vibe coding our way to a new legacy crisis?
- The cost of being half-hearted in AI and how to avoid the Solow Paradox
- Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks
- The quantum countdown: Are organizations ready to avoid the next Y2K
- Why AI is making work faster, not better
- The measurement challenge behind the shift to GaN in high-frequency semiconductors
- Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge
- We're building the most critical infrastructure of our lifetimes. We're leaving the front door unlocked
August 4
- 'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI
- OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking
- The vSphere 9 decision: migrate, modernize or maximize with purpose
- AI monocultures: the code review problem nobody's talking about
- Telemetry in AI and why it may be a ticking bomb for CTOs and CFOs
- How governance gaps are creating a shadow AI risk for finance leaders
- Why organizations are making trade-offs on software quality in the race to deliver faster
- Rethinking AI adoption: What UK retailers can learn from their US counterparts
- The democratization of AI stopped at the wrong layer
- Enabling the next generation of AI data centers
August 3
- Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: 'All of human art and human experience put into a blender' — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries
- MySpace coming back — again — is no surprise; I’m only shocked it’s not been announced as the first all-AI social media platform
- When AI inherits your technical debt
- Why serious AI builders are skipping third-party evals
- Is AI creating the next wave of software sprawl?
- Why security debt belongs on the boardroom agenda
- The six-stage journey: Why 62% of organizations are stuck below the AI value line
- Why vertical AI is the defining opportunity for enterprise right now
- The infrastructure debt AI creates isn't in the code. It's in the operations
- Why even the biggest brands have low AI readiness
August 2
- Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: 'The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour' — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come
- I defected to the PS5 after 30 years of PC gaming — here's why I have no regrets about swapping the RAM crisis for the disc crisis
August 1
- Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
- Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
- There’s a micro mobility revolution underway in the USA, spurred on by a rise in popularity of golf carts — could this be a turning point for the country that pioneered gigantic SUVs?

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