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Featured Article : Do Hackers Get Pensions & Sick Pay?

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Kaspersky research has shown that hackers are now being recruited with dark web job ads offering huge salaries and benefits!   What?!  According to Kaspersky’s analysis of more than 200,000 employment ads posted on the dark web between January 2020 and June 2022, ‘employers’ have been seeking applications from the best hackers by offering favourable terms […]

Tech Insight : Stopping SafeSearch From Being ‘Too Safe’

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Following anecdotal reports that some users can’t turn off the strict SafeSearch settings when searching using Bing, we look at what SafeSearch is, and how to control it.  What Is SafeSearch?  SafeSearch is a setting in Microsoft’s Bing search engine that’s designed to filter out inappropriate web content.  How?  It works on the search terms […]

Tech News : Google Bard’s $100 Billion Bungle

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$100 billion/£82.7bn is reported to have been wiped off the value shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet following a rather public error made by Bard, Google’s new answer to ChatGPT.  Bard  Originally called ‘Apprentice Bard,’ Bard is Google’s conversational AI service which uses Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), Google’s family of conversational neural language models. […]

Tech News : Quantum Computing Breakthrough

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Researchers from the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum have announced that they have made a major breakthrough in quantum computing that could help solve the most complex real-world problems.  What Are Quantum Computers?  Quantum computers can carry out complex calculations at high speed. Whereas traditional computers store data in binary ‘bits’ (ones and zeros) […]