Articles by Craig Hale

With several years’ experience freelancing in tech and automotive circles, Craig’s specific interests lie in technology that is designed to better our lives, including AI and ML, productivity aids, and smart fitness. He is also passionate about cars and the decarbonisation of personal transportation. As an avid bargain-hunter, you can be sure that any deal Craig finds is top value!

Articles by: Craig Hale

Can Big Tech's 2030 climate goals survive the AI boom?

By Craig Hale Published 30 July 26

Cracks are starting to show in Big Tech 2030 climate goals – is 2030 still a realistic deadline, or is it just a test?

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‘Identifying vulnerabilities is no longer enough’: Companies need to focus on fixing exploitable vulnerabilities, not discovering as many as possible, says Checkmarx CEO

By Desire Athow Published 30 July 26

Exclusive AppSec must shift from finding every single vulnerability to prioritizing exploitable risks, and human expertise is in hot demand.

Agentic security doesn't need a whole new definition – you just need to reframe what you already know

By Craig Hale Published 29 July 26

Security leaders are being forced to rethink identity, permissions and monitoring for AI agents – but they only need to reframe everything they already know.

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‘We are the reason that data centers get built and expanded’: It’s not about whether we need them, but it’s about where we build them, IDCA founder and CEO says

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive We are responsible for creating data center demand – we should accept some of the consequences. But hyperscalers have responsibilities, too.

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‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive Automation has gotten so good within fixed parameters – construction is a whole new ball game, but with major potential benefits.

‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips

By Desire Athow Published 28 July 26

Exclusive Rebellions says we’re starting to see the emergence of an inference chip market – could this be when AI starts to become truly efficient?

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Shadow AI is actually the symptom: here's how to treat the cause

By Craig Hale Published 28 July 26

Employers need to provide accessible policies, suitable tools and practical real-world training to iron out shadow AI.

‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic

By Desire Athow Last updated 28 July 26

Exclusive Mismatches in how AI traffic gets categorized could mean you end up accidentally blocking it all – how can you find the right balance?

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The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn't mean cloud computing's days are numbered

By Craig Hale Last updated 28 July 26

Cloud AI pricing is shifting toward consumption and outcomes, and AI PCs are becoming more expensive – how does the hybrid future look?

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'That is the wrong model for the AI era': Employers now expect basic AI skills from all workers

By Craig Hale Published 26 July 26

97% of organizations would pay 10%+ extra salary just for workers who have AI skills – workers, take responsibility now.

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'The government has all but forgotten that most data centres require water to cool their systems': Industry trade board warns UK government over data center thirst for resources

By Craig Hale Published 25 July 26

Water UK calls out the government for not taking water seriously enough, despite plans to treble data center capacity by 2030.

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GitHub restructures bug bounty program following flood of AI-generated reports

By Craig Hale Published 24 July 26

GitHub splits off open, public bug bounty programs from invite-only, VIP scheme which pays around 3-4x more.

Be careful where you click — ChatGPT joins Microsoft, Google in most-impersonated brands online

By Craig Hale Published 24 July 26

OpenAI debuts in the top 10 most impersonated companies, seeing nearly as many attacks as PayPal, WhatsApp, Facebook.

Goodbye SMS or phone calls — Microsoft is making passkeys the default authentication process for businesses

By Craig Hale Published 23 July 26

Microsoft says SMS and phone call authentication isn't up to the task anymore – and urges businesses to adopt passkeys.

SpaceXAI has built a Microsoft Excel Grok plug-in, for some reason

By Craig Hale Published 23 July 26

SpaceXAI launches its own Grok add-ins for Microsoft Excel and other Office apps after other AI vendors see great success.

OpenAI's latest service wants to get your company build and get better integrated with AI agents

By Craig Hale Published 23 July 26

Once a company's deployed AI agents across the likes of customer service, OpenAI Presence steps in to keep it updated and current.

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Jack Dorsey wants to take on Slack and GitHub with new Buzz platform bringing humans and agents together

By Craig Hale Published 23 July 26

Buzz is one single app for human-AI conversations, project context, code hosting and more.

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Gen Z investors are regularly turning to AI for advice — and that could soon be a huge problem

By Craig Hale Published 23 July 26

80% of Gen Z investors use AI for investing guidance, but trust and transparency are crucial in financial decisions