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Featured Article : What’s All This Fuss About A National Alarm?

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With the UK government’s new ‘Emergency Alerts’ system now live, we take a look at what it is and how it will work.  What Are ‘Emergency Alerts’?  The UK government’s Emergency Alerts service, managed by the government’s Cabinet Office, enables the government to send important public safety messages directly to people’s mobile phones in specific geographic […]

Tech News : Beware Increasing Deepfake Voice Scams

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There have been reports of scammers are using the latest AI deepfake voice clones to sound like family members in distress to swindle relatives out of money.  AI Voice Technology  The kinds of artificially generated voice technology tools that bad actors could be using for ‘imposter scams’ may include  ElevenLabs, Murf, Play.ht, Respeecher, Resemble, Overdub, […]

Tech News : TikTok Fined £12.7m By UK Data Watchdog

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Embattled Chinese owned short-video-sharing platform TikTok has received a £12.7m fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching UK data protection law by failing to protect children’s privacy when using the TikTok platform.  Notice Of Intent Issued Last Year  The ICO issued TikTok Inc and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited (‘TikTok’) with the ‘notice of […]

Tech Insight : ChatGPT Gets User’s Parking Ticket Revoked

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Following the news that a student made a successful appeal against a parking ticket by using a letter written by the ChatGPT chatbot, we look at how it happened, how to get the best results from ChatGPT, and we look at some of the recent concerns about the advances in AI technology.  £60 Parking Ticket  […]