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UK GDPR and backups: retention and the right to erasure
UK GDPR expects you to be able to restore personal data, to keep it no longer than you need, and to honour erasure requests in backups too. Here is…
Backup & RecoveryRPO, RTO and MTD explained, and how to set them
RPO is how much data you can afford to lose, RTO is how long recovery can take, and MTD is how long the business can be disrupted before the harm is…
SecurityNIS2 and the UK: the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill explained
NIS2 is EU law. The UK's version of the same idea is the NIS Regulations 2018, which the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will reform, bringing in…
Backup & RecoveryImmutable vs air-gapped backups, and how long to keep them
An immutable backup cannot be changed or deleted until its retention period ends. An air-gapped backup has no automated connection to your systems at…
Backup & RecoveryHow often should you test DR and business continuity plans?
At least once a year, and again after any major disruption or change. Here is where that yearly minimum comes from, which test to run, and how to run…
SecurityCyber Essentials vs Plus: cost, renewal and requirements
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus check the same five technical controls. The difference is who checks them: Cyber Essentials is a verified…
SecurityTime4Popcorn CVE-2026-30612: firm disabled updater on 2m PCs
Eye Security used a flawed updater against itself to disable it on over 2 million machines. The app stays unsafe, and CVE-2026-30612 is rated 9.8.
NewsiPhone Duo: buy now with AppleCare+ or wait for hinge answers
Inner screens are cracking at the hinge within hours on some iPhone Duos. Here is how buying now compares with waiting, and what repairs cost.
SecurityShould you pay a ransomware demand? The UK position
Paying a ransom is not banned for most UK businesses, but paying a sanctioned group is a criminal offence, public bodies face a proposed ban, and the…
SecurityiPhone 18 Pro jailbreak: Calif's untethered demo at Hexacon
Calif showed an untethered iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro at Hexacon.
SpaceArtemis III: NASA's orbital test of two moon landers in 2027
NASA will dock Orion with both SpaceX and Blue Origin landers in low-Earth orbit in 2027, a test that will decide which vehicle flies Artemis IV.
ScienceMars 1,000-mile cloud: what a headline list reveals about tech
A Mars cloud headline sits among stories on Starlink, Gmail ads and mRNA. Here is what the cluster says about tech and science pressures.
AIKimi K3.1 Pro: what it is and what Moonshot AI says it does
Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's open-weight reasoning model with a 1-million-token context window. Here is what it does and how its reported benchmark…
SpaceStarship Flight 15: SpaceX bets on a double catch next month
SpaceX plans to catch both Starship stages on Flight 15 next month. Musk calls success more likely than not; the data behind that claim is thin.
AIGoogle Finland data centres: Muhos and Otanmäki sites compared
Google is under orders to halt work at two Finnish data centre sites. We compare Muhos and Otanmäki and what IT teams should check.
Backup & RecoveryHow to set up Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi
Install Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi Imager, reach it in your browser, complete onboarding and keep a backup habit from day…
AILiteLLM 1.107.0 backdoor: how to check exposure and clean up
LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI and Docker carried a credential stealer. Here is how to check exposure, rotate secrets and pin the clean 1.106.2 release.
AICequence Agent Trust: blocking AI agent actions, not the agent
Cequence says Meta's Muse agent appears in over half of customer environments, and its new Agent Trust tool polices single actions rather than whole…
SecurityPHP2Shell flaws were targeted four days before disclosure
AWS saw one actor probing a honeypot four days before the PHP2Shell bugs were disclosed, and the flaws are now broadly exploited. Here is what that…
NewsGoogle Cloud europe-west2-b outage: banks and mail hit in London
A power event in one London zone, europe-west2-b, disrupted banks, Royal Mail and court streams. Here is what IT teams should check.
AIAI exhibition explores alignment through commissioned artworks
Anthropic and Hanwha Foundation launch exhibition exploring how AI systems work and align with human values through commissioned works by five Korean…
SecurityPAN-OS firewall flaw exploited by multiple ransomware groups
Ransomware groups including Qilin and Inc have exploited CVE-2026-0257, a Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect authentication bypass. Here are the fixed…
SpaceEuclid space telescope discovers first new comet by accident
The ESA's Euclid space telescope, designed to study dark matter and dark energy, has discovered its first previously unknown comet 1.3 billion…
HardwareTenstorrent raises $1.5bn to challenge Nvidia
Tenstorrent raised $1.5bn at a $6.2bn valuation, more than double its December 2024 value, to scale deployment of RISC-V-based AI servers.
GadgetsTouchscreen MacBook Pro on 28 October? Why you should wait to buy
Should I wait to buy a MacBook Pro? Apple's 28 October event is rumoured to bring a touchscreen OLED model and new chips. Here is who should hold off.