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July 2026
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- July 31
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- Quote of the day by The Odyssey director Chris Nolan: 'AI researchers refer to the present moment as an 'Oppenheimer moment'' — putting into perspective the scale of change AI will bring
- This hilarious robot collapse reminds me that robot development is nowhere near where it needs to be, but a huge breakthrough from DeepMind could change all that
- Magic: The Gathering’s most controversial change is coming to Dungeons & Dragons — starting with its first official World of Warcraft expansion
- Why traditional security checks are failing in the age of AI-driven fraud
- The surge in AI-driven fraud requires coordinated global defense
- I can't believe it's taken LinkedIn so long to push back against AI slop — but will its changes really stop all the cringey updates?
- I swapped my iPhone for the distraction-free Balance Phone to curb my social media habit, and it wasn't quite the digital detox I expected
- Beyond Tokenmaxxing: the rising token tax on enterprise AI
- The real fight in agentic commerce isn't autonomy. It's authorization
- Why the UK’s quantum procurement strategy matters more than the £2bn headline
- The UK wants to lead on AI, but who is going to build it?
- Starlink sends the telecoms world off in a spin, but what is the big picture?
- Cracking down on shadow AI is making your business less secure, not more
- July 30
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- 'With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon' — quote of the day by Elon Musk on the rise of machine intelligence
- Data center operators must take local populations seriously to succeed
- Why access to power will determine the winners and losers in the AI race
- Three takeaways - why operational intelligence is now part of the capacity conversation
- Why mainframes remain central to enterprise transformation
- How silicon photonics lights the way for data centers
- Revenge SEO: How a fired contractor erased 90% of our traffic
- Why your AI strategy has a trust problem and speed won't fix it
- Context, not correlation, will define successful AI implementation
- July 29
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- Who needs Dolby Atmos? These 6 4K Blu-rays support with DTS Master Audio surround sound (and 1 with stereo) are perfect for showing off what your your home theater can really do
- Quote of the day by Tom Hanks on AI in cinema: 'Without a doubt, people will be able to tell. But the question is, will they care?' — a cynical observation about modern film audiences
- The Gen Z 'Neo-Luddism' movement is right about the downsides of technology — but can any of us afford to truly disconnect?
- 'If you can’t buy it, you can’t afford it' — why not everyone is buying Apple's new iPhone leasing offer
- Feeling stressed and overworked? Don't worry - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that's why AI won't result in a four-day working week
- Playing Black Flag Resynced on the PS5 Pro and a 120Hz display has confirmed my love of 40fps modes on console — and given me more confidence if GTA 6 can’t hit 60fps
- It’s hard to feel sorry for AI companies when China is giving them a taste of their own medicine
- The cyber risk hiding in plain sight
- Britain should turn Ukrainian wartime innovation into shared leadership
- Low-power AI could define the next era of global innovation
- Agentic AI has a price: it's called ERP migration
- Elevating the IoT: How AI is introducing a new era of connectivity
- The AI investment gap
- Why proving personhood is the new standard for identity verification
- How cloud architecture is reinventing primary storage for the AI era
- July 28
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- Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'There's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it'' — downplaying Apple's foray into tablets
- Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be
- The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map — but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives
- I'm worried that Windows 11 will slowly turn into a subscription-based OS, and AI agents will be to blame — here's why
- Why Europe cannot let the AI sovereignty ship sail
- Data centers, power and how to be a winner in the AI Boom
- A turning point for Saas: Not SaaSpocalypse, but an opportunity to differentiate
- From apprehension to AI agency: the leadership shift no one can outsource
- How Large Action Models are reshaping CX
- Quantum is coming: What every board needs to do now
- Customer engagement in B2B sales - the future is agentic
- The changing face of technology innovation
- Elon Musk's age of abundance is an AI pipe dream soaked in snake oil, and I've about had it
- July 27
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- Quote of the day by Barack Obama: 'Our new information ecosystem is turbocharging some of humanity's worst impulses' — a warning against rampant disinformation
- I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players
- A $400 SSD that was previously as low as $79.99 shows just how bleak PC gaming is in 2026 — are the days of good deals over?
- Enterprises and the customer experience problem
- Britain’s AI problem isn’t innovation, it’s execution
- The AI reality check for finance: why experimentation is over and execution has begun
- Access to Mythos won’t protect trust in UK banks
- Crunch time: Let AI work the numbers, but leave the emotional decisions to humans
- I tested LG's newest OLED TVs side-by-side, and as a certified TV calibrator, there's one clear winner for me
- The evolving role of network engineers in the age of AI
- AI and regulation are reshaping the future of building security
- Smart wearables challenge UK privacy laws through invisible surveillance
- July 26
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- July 24
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- Quote of the day by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen: 'Software is eating the world' — a pithy assessment of the modern tech landscape
- Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis calls for 'urgent action' during 'precious window before AGI arrives' — and it's all starting to feel a bit Skynet
- Rethinking the transport layer for AI-first architecture
- Why automotive repair needs domain-specific AI, not general-purpose models
- The regulatory unlock that's reshaping AI infrastructure
- AI value is stalling but the issue isn’t the technology
- The case for moving creative production AI to the edge
- How identity fraud became the threat that never sleeps
- Accenture, AI and the danger of believing the headlines
- What football's biggest tournament reveals about winning with AI
- Garmin’s TrainingPeaks acquisition and the Garmin Cirqa smart band could have a surprise connection — as the Cirqa puts access to its coaching software behind the Connect+ premium tier
- July 23
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- My favorite music streaming site just got a big update that makes me even happier I quit Spotify six months ago
- Quote of the day by former Intel CEO Andy Grove: 'Success breeds complacency' — accidental foreshadowing of his company's own decline
- Samsung just fixed the foldable phone — now Apple can make it cool
- Reinventing hiring for the AI-driven labor market
- Humans in the loop: how software teams are learning to trust AI
- Why UK banks keep breaking down: the data problem hiding in plain sight
- The foundation agentic AI can’t function without
- Why AI-powered network management is no longer optional
- The security standard that could prevent a costly mistake with AI in hospitality
- MANGOS is not the endgame. It is the beginning
- Geopolitical interference takes center stage during the World Cup
- July 22
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- 'There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home': Quote of the day by Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder Ken Olsen on the future of smart homes
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 4K Blu-ray might not be my favorite movie of the year, but my god it's an awesome new reference disc for testing TVs and Dolby Atmos sound system
- Why the future of AI depends on SMB adoption
- Why trust remains AI’s workplace challenge
- Why the future of computing is hybrid
- The hidden cyber risks facing our water supply
- Stop measuring AI usage. Start building AI capability.
- Why you can’t buy security on the dark web
- Why operational technology risk still slips past the boardroom
- Why connecting tech to operational reality will help businesses deliver on AI's promise
- July 21
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- 'Either you betray your values, or you become irrelevant': Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the emerging AI industry
- Protecting creative storytelling in an AI-first marketing world
- The agent problem nobody budgeted for
- AI in orbit: The next evolution of compute infrastructure
- What the 2026 World Cup is revealing about the future of product identification
- Agentic AI in the enterprise: Why architecture matters more than marketing claims
- Why AI is re-designing data center architecture
- Why AI is rewriting the rules of team structure in SaaS
- The hidden tax on your AI ambitions
- July 20
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- Quote of the day by Alan Turing: 'We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done' — key guidance on the road to building AI
- Agentic commerce: why AI agents are transforming the ecommerce landscape
- When IT works best, employees never notice
- “Brain fry” and broken promises: The hidden cost of AI without architecture
- The World Cup stress test is here. Here are three ways employers can come out ahead
- Why the next computing revolution will be hybrid, human and slightly unpredictable
- Everyone is now an AI company. But here’s the real challenge
- Artificial intelligence agents need access, not secrets
- Solving the energy conundrum is key to unlocking the UK’s AI economy
- July 19
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- '6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras' — Quote of the day by Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on the future of wearable tech
- The quiet comeback of boring computing: why ports, keyboards, and repairability matter again
- I'm worried about the future of MacBooks — and these M7 chip rumors are to blame
- July 18
- July 17
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- Europe’s tech reset gives the UK a chance to lead on security and sovereignty
- Is sovereignty threatening your resilience?
- The biggest barrier to AI success isn't AI
- 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