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July 2026
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- July 17
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- Human-led, AI-assisted testing: Why AI won’t replace penetration testers...yet.
- Who decides what runs on your website?
- A unified front against fraud: Securing the UK's payments future
- Enterprise AI has a trust problem, and guarantees are how we fix it
- Why brokers need clean data to execute in the age of AI
- July 16
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- 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place; — quote of the day by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- Cloud sprawl taught organizations a lesson. AI is testing whether they learned it
- Why OpenAI could become the next Netscape
- The new AI risk problem no one leader fully owns
- Shadow AI often emerges when workplace technology fails employees
- The agentic commerce gold rush risks repeating ecommerce's biggest mistakes
- As AI scales, is meaningful governance possible?
- The rise of “comprehension debt” in the age of AI coding
- Most enterprise AI governance is already out of date
- July 15
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- Quote of the day by Sam Altman: 'It also takes a lot of energy to train a human' — a staunch defense of the cost of AI training
- Relax, Apple, OpenAI and its rumored AI smart speaker plans are no threat to you, Siri, HomePods, robots, or any other part of your business
- How brands can preserve customer ‘digital patience’
- How parked domains became a cybercrime goldmine
- Why AI recommendations are becoming ecommerce’s most valuable source of traffic
- Why transaction data may be the missing link to AI ROI
- The gap between AI potential and AI reality Is a leadership problem
- The network perimeter is dead. Now what?
- The Disney settlement is a story about two layers of infrastructure that no longer line up
- How automation is easing IT’s patching pressure
- July 14
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- Quote of the day by Linux creator Linus Torvalds: 'Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with' — airing frustrations at walled gardens
- AI does not solve poor finance infrastructure: it weakens it
- Autonomous AI worms mark a new era of adaptive cyberattacks
- Inference needs memory: how context is becoming AI infrastructure
- The AI job apocalypse is a myth. We need more human talent than ever before
- Five reasons switching from IP VPN to SD WAN will help you build an AI-ready network
- Britain's AI push is exposing a memory crisis inside business
- Co-existing with AI: why replacement narratives are holding the public sector back
- The new rules of software supply chain security: visibility, vigilance, validation
- July 13
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- Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: 'The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste' — a potshot at a bitter rival
- What the CAIO wave signals for UK companies yet to follow suit
- Apple’s app subscription bundles are too rigid and inflexible — here's how I'd overhaul them if I were CEO-to-be John Ternus
- Why AI coding agents keep stalling before production and the governance controls that fix it
- From typos to deepfakes: the new AI cybersecurity battleground
- Why your security stack might be guarding the wrong door
- The hidden cybersecurity risk sitting in every SMB office
- Why AI infrastructure costs keep surprising IT leaders
- AI can read your legacy systems. Modernization is still the hard part
- Token maxxing is your AI program’s quiet failure mode
- July 12
- July 11
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- 'It's not really enjoyable to make music now': Quote of the day by CEO of AI music generator Suno, Mikey Shulman — a faux pas with serious ramifications
- 'One of the best Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos 4K Blu-rays I've ever tested': Speed Racer on 4K is so good, it's going to be my new go-to disc for TV and soundbar testing
- I review smart rings for a living, and the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 needs these 6 upgrades to stay relevant
- The more famous people tell me to use AI, the less I want to — it turns out I'm not alone
- July 10
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- Quote of the day by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen: 'We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives' — a full-throated defense of the AI buildout
- How AI can turn restaurant phone lines into profit centers
- Why Human+AI collaboration beats AI-only automation
- How AI is taking IoT security to the next level
- CISOs pressured to stay silent about cyber attacks need evidence-led governance for protection
- The dangerous myth of the ‘best’ AI model
- Enterprises are not building AI advantage. They are leasing it.
- Seizing AI job opportunities in the United Kingdom
- Why AI is a matter of national security
- July 9
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- Quote of the day by NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden on the 'nothing to hide' argument: 'No different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say'
- Smarter, not faster: AI infra’s sobering effect on fiber strategy
- I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write
- The EU AI Act deadline has moved, but data lineage can’t wait
- The AI security paradox: Why are organizations trusting what they can’t fully see?
- AI work slop: What is it & how can UK businesses protect themselves?
- Shadow AI is creeping in to healthcare - leaders need to recognize the risk before it’s too late
- AI agents aren’t the end of SaaS – they’re driving its next phase of growth
- Anthropic’s Mythos leak hands enterprises a timely warning
- Five reasons one big screen beats two at work
- 'Still the king of bright room OLED TV': I tested Samsung and LG's latest flagship OLED TVs side-by-side to see which is better for bright rooms — here's the one I'd pick
- July 8
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- Quote of the day by former Nintendo President Satoru Iawata: 'It will require many years and months for the majority of video game purchases to become digital' — correctly predicting dominance of digital games today back in 2009
- AI shopping is changing discovery - but not consumer trust
- Understanding cyber resilience in the age of internal threats, AI, and emerging data loss risks
- Why sovereign data is the future of UK AI
- How to embrace the spirit of ‘Tokenmaxxing’ without breaking the bank
- Post-incident review should be set policy, not spread by ‘folklore’
- AI fails without a strong operational, data, and ERP foundation
- Tomorrow’s AI networks need to adapt to stay ahead of the inference curve
- The great data leakage problem
- July 7
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- Quote of the day by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: 'A $5,000 drone can destroy a $5 million tank' — pithy insights about the future of warfare
- The AI trust gap: No scaling without quality management
- Why Nvidia's NemoClaw signals the true enterprise agent era
- Are enterprises hiring the wrong Chief AI Officer?
- The AI Scaling gap: why ambition is outpacing readiness
- Shadow AI is a business design problem, but it can be overcome
- AI only creates value when it fixes the workflow
- Quantum is already compromising your data, you just can’t see it yet
- Five ways data centers can save water
- July 6
- July 5
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- Quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 'One of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever' — closing the doors to pandemic-era flexibility
- I tested Samsung and LG's best OLED TVs side-by-side, and we've never been more spoiled for choice — here are the key ways each one beats the other in the real world
- July 4
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- Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on women asking for a raise: 'It’s about knowing and having faith in the system' — a controversial gaffe that led to an immediate reversal
- How I think Microsoft's campaign to fix Windows 11 is going so far — the verdict now we're 3 months in
- Wearable tech used to be cool, but it is slowly becoming a symbol of surveillance capitalism dreck — here's how to save it
- For a brand that made robot vacuums accessible, my faith in Ecovacs is shaken after using the Deebot T90 Pro Omni
- July 3
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- Quote of the day by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki on AI: "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself" — decrying the rise of machine-made art
- Running on-premise in an agentic world
- Why 'time to token' is the new battleground for data centers
- Two of the world's fastest-growing skills are in the same job description
- Is the SaaSpocalypse over? And if so, what comes next?
- July 2
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- Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: 'Are you prepared to die? Then okay, you're a candidate' — a reminder that the manned mission to Mars might be a deadly one
- Work in 2026: the future of flexible tech
- Microsoft suggests Copilot is the 'button you can press to fix everything' in Windows 11 — here's hoping it can fix the company's marketing department
- Agentic AI adoption outpaces governance in regulated industries
- Mythos shows why AI governance must catch up to the speed of risk discovery
- The security alerts you ignore are the ones that matter
- July 1
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- Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: 'True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation' — laying the foundation for a timeless design philosophy
- Why human-centric displays matter in the screen-first workplace
- The developer device is the new supply chain attack blind spot
- Forget the dull iPhone 18 Pro leak — hackers took 181 files from Apple's India assembly partner, and we should brace for more
- Who decides when a cyber AI tool is safe to deploy?
- I'm not sad Microsoft has axed the Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go - it's probably my least-favorite work device ever
- Cloud complexity didn't happen by accident