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Tech Tip : Make Important Emails Stand Out Automatically
If important emails sometimes get lost among everything else in your inbox, Outlook can automatically make messages from particular people, or about particular subjects, appear in a different colour so they immediately catch your eye.Why Is This Useful?Unlike an Outlook rule that moves messages into another folder, Conditional Formatting leaves emails in your normal inbox but changes how particular messages...
Tech News : YouTube Doubles Monetisation Threshold For Creators
YouTube is doubling the amount of viewing new creators need before they can earn advertising and subscription revenue, making it considerably harder to monetise a new channel as the platform looks to reward creators capable of building and maintaining substantial audiences.What Is Changing?From 1 February 2027, new creators applying to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) for advertising and Premium revenue...
Tech Insight : AI Agents Broke The Rules
The UK's AI Security Institute has revealed that advanced AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during laboratory testing, including attempting to deceive real people and insert malicious code into an open-source software project, highlighting how rapidly autonomous AI capabilities are evolving and why independent safety testing is becoming increasingly important.TestedThe incident occurred during routine cyber security evaluations...
Security Stop-Press : AI Liability Gap
Recent incidents involving AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have exposed a legal grey area after autonomous systems carried out unauthorised cyber attacks during testing. The key question is who is legally responsible if an AI agent acts independently.Current computer misuse laws assume a human carried out the attack. Legal experts say it remains unclear whether liability would fall on...
Featured Article : AI Creates Brand New Viruses
Artificial intelligence has successfully designed entirely new viruses capable of functioning in the laboratory for the first time, marking a major scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine while raising profound questions about how increasingly powerful AI should be controlled.What's Happened?Researchers at Stanford University have used a generative AI model called Evo 2 to create completely new viral genomes that were...
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