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August 2026

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August 31
- Tim Cook was the best Apple CEO for his time — John Ternus' tenure will be defined by AI
- How to solve agent sprawl
- The three forces reshaping the future of enterprise SaaS
- Shadow AI is a security problem, but the EU AI Act makes it a legal one
- The AI layoff narrative is missing the real story
August 30
- Laptop bloatware is still a big problem – and Windows 11 needs to step up and sort it out
August 29
- Quote of the day by tech pioneer Claude Shannon: 'I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans' — a warning about superintelligent AI
- Nvidia DLSS 5 leak sparks major turnaround among PC gamers — as some brand it an 'insanely huge graphical update' that means 'there's no going back'
- Apple's late arrival to the folding market puts huge pressure on the iPhone Ultra to finally level up the category — but is that even possible?
August 28
- 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' — quote of the day by physicist Dennis Gabor on the nature of innovation
- I tested the new Hard Boiled 4K Blu-ray, and this long-awaited classic is a new reference showcase for what Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos is capable of
- CIOs must rethink identity now people are being outnumbered by nonhuman entities
- How to accelerate AI adoption without creating unnecessary security risk
- The smarter way to manage offices in a hotter world
- Why print and scanning remain an unmitigated risk
August 27
- AI has exposed the biggest knowledge gap in business. Hint: it isn't technical
- Why the next technology conversation shouldn't start with AI
- Why retailers need to own their digital visibility
- Cyber Essentials is no longer a tick-box exercise – businesses need to act now
- I fell for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft hype and now regret it — its monochrome sibling is the superior Amazon slate in my book
August 26
- Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O’Brien: 'If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders' — a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing
- Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B — and agrees to massive changes that may be almost impossible to enforce
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says people think governments are using AI ‘to screw them over’, and that’s why the tech is having a ‘a crisis of trust’ — and he’s exactly right
- Meta thought AI could do the job instead of humans — what happened next should surprise absolutely nobody
- Wanted: Token spend control and governance without slowing down agentic AI innovation
- Govern AI agents before they go rogue
- Why inclusive design makes smarter technology for all
- Why retailers must replace rigid planning with micro-season agility
- AI coding is putting software risk on steroids
- Nonprofits should focus on incremental gains for AI success
- AI is scaling faster than organizations can control
- How can AI help stop the next global disease outbreak before it kills millions?
August 25
- PlayStation Blackout won't matter — and the reasons are as obvious as the physical media you never owned
- 'The version Microsoft will build should be known as Copilot OS': Windows built around AI may not be happening, but leaked concept remains a grim portent for desktops
- The AI industry is about to relearn every lesson of the ad blocking wars
- A modern endpoint does not mean you have modern applications
- Defining the MVC: Recover faster from cyberattacks by restoring what matters most
- No standing still: Zero Trust and cybersecurity
- The AI spending spree is over. Here are 5 steps to prepare for the next wave of consumption
- Keeping your options open: Why choice matters for UK AI sovereignty
- Here’s what House of the Dragon can teach you about AI strategy
- When the attacker has no human left to catch
August 24
- 'Unlicensed, unrestricted AI training could destroy the ecosystem for books' — quote of the day by the Authors Guild on the sourcing of training data
- Why accurate weather forecasting is still so difficult — and why real-time data matters
- Why scaling AI requires a new economic strategy
- Over a million people have clicked LinkedIn's "seems like AI slop" button in just a few weeks - so why is my feed still full of it?
- Why "I approve" can become the most dangerous button in enterprise AI
- Why most organizations are getting AI security wrong (and why it’s about to catch up with them)
- The ascent of autonomous attacks and the race to contain them
- The AI data problem nobody talks about: Why more information isn't making better decisions
- What airports can teach us about the power of invisible business AI
- Who really needs Forward Deployed Engineers around AI?
August 22
- Quote of the day by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel: 'Anyone that has a monopoly will pretend that they're in incredible competition' — exposing how tech titans bend the market in their favour
- LG OLED vs Samsung RGB: I tested the two brands' latest flagship TVs side-by-side using reference 4K Blu-ray scenes — here's which one came out on top
August 21
- The 5 best 4K Blu-rays for showing off your TVs vibrant colors — with titles from Disney, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros
- Why AI success starts with teams, not tech
- Understanding infrastructure performance is becoming more important than ever
- The next AI phase is better agents not bigger models
August 20
- Unpopular Kindle DRM changes aren't making anyone happy — especially sleepy readers like me — but there's an easy workaround, if we even need one
- Quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 'There's no way to get there without a breakthrough' — a blunt reality check on the path to superintelligent AI
- Moving AI from pilot to production
- What AI usage is really telling us about enterprise adoption
- How AI is transforming the role of test engineers
- AI can answer, but can it lead?
- Before approving the next AI budget, check the network
- Why AI-powered marketing is the new secret weapon for customer trust
- Why your best-interviewing AI candidate may not be your best AI hire
- AI vendor dependency is becoming a resilience risk
August 19
- AirPods with cameras could not arrive at a worse time — and I'll just say no
- Rethinking secure file transfer for a cross-domain world
- Predictable attacks, unpredictable defenses: why observability is the real security gap
- ‘Not every student has someone at home who can help when they get stuck’ — ChatGPT’s smartest new feature for teenagers is refusing to give them what they ask for
- From experimentation to execution: why AI in B2B marketing must now prove commercial value
- AI needs rules and rails: Why governance must move beyond policy
- SMEs aren’t too small to target for cybercriminals, they’re too exposed to ignore
- The financial fallout of getting IT change wrong
- What comes after the software-defined vehicle?
- How to address the “white-collar exodus”
August 18
- 'When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief' — Quote of the day by Scarlett Johansson on GPT-4's infamous 'Sky' launch voice
- We're asking the wrong question about the cost of enterprise AI
- The next camera race will be about understanding
- Ghosts in the machine: AI malware shows why it is time to extend Zero Trust to code
- Cybersecurity needs a new KPI: it's time to measure our ability to adapt
- The next phase of AI adoption could change the future of supply chains
- National infrastructure needs a new approach to cyber resilience
- Fostering trust in the age of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation
- Beyond general-purpose AI: why sovereignty matters in critical services
August 17
- Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it' — a witty defense against a stunning accusation
- Meta might be on the hook for $1.4 trillion if it loses a landmark lawsuit and that would truly mark the end of social media as we know it
- Power on... Marvel's new X-Men movie cast reveal at D23 Expo 2026 — and why it proves leak culture is broken
- AI is changing security testing, but not all vulnerabilities are created equal
- How technology is changing marine engineering
- AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty
- Beyond ‘Pilot Purgatory’: What does it take to build AI that works?
- Tokenmaxxing: Why AI consumption needs control
- From connection to context: Dispelling the legal industry’s biggest myths about MCP
- AI’s trillion dollar token reckoning
- Securing adoption in the era of shadow AI
August 16
- Quote of the day by Elon Musk: '[The Tesla Bot] has the potential to be a generalized substitute for human labor over time' — a bold prediction on the future of work
- Sony Bravia 7 II vs Samsung R95H: which RGB TV wins, and does either model topple OLED? I tested them side-by-side to find out
- The hidden cost of the RAM crisis: why memory prices might not be your only PC upgrade worry
August 15
- Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation' — a communiqué stamping authority
August 14
- Quote of the day by roboticist Rodney Brooks: 'The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is' — a warning about the misleading form of a humanoid robot
- 'I hope people say I was a good and decent man,' Tim Cook on his post-Apple legacy — and why for him I don't think any other answer was possible
- The operational gap in R&D Tax: Where good claims break down
- AI is making cyber threats faster, but trust will define which businesses survive
- AI agents are inside the enterprise – are your security foundations ready for them?
- The first 24 hours: why supply chain resilience is now a decision-speed challenge
- Beware the token trap: Why saving on inference might put your ADLC at risk
- Why open source AI is worth fighting for
- Why operational excellence now defines mobile service quality
- Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage
August 13
- 'When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before' — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton on the birth of software engineering
- How AI agents will change how people work — and what they need from a PC
- Bad news: your AI application isn't that special
- In an era of deepfakes, can digital evidence still be trusted?
- Tokenomics: AI Has an income statement - it’s time to read it
- Is Big Tech's grip on global influence already unbreakable?
- Why employees, not threat actors, are 2026’s biggest risk
- Data sovereignty is more than a pin on a map
- What is Tokenmaxxing, and why should businesses care about it?
- Is the Sky Glass Gen 2 worth the money? I've used it at home for more than a year — here are my thoughts on it compared to rivals from LG, Samsung and Sony
August 12
- The Google Pixel Watch 5's Insulin Resistance Trends might be the biggest deal in smartwatches in ages — for better or worse
- 'C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success' — Quote of the day by the creator of the programming language Dennis Ritchie
- I read Mark Zuckerberg's 'The Future is for Everyone' AI manifesto and it almost drove me insane
- Why organizations are falling into an AI Security Illusion
- ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words — here’s how that’s even possible, and how EU rules could push OpenAI and Google to follow suit
- Trustworthy AI starts with surviving production failures
- Why AI is accelerating old cyber risks, not creating new ones
- The UK's on-device scanning plan is a threat to enterprise environments
- Enterprise AI needs a new model for behavioral intelligence
- Building the case for specialized AI
- AI image tools: a game changer for creativity and retail’s multi-billion-dollar abuse problem
- Cybersecurity’s identity crisis: why trust can no longer begin and end at login
August 11
- Quote of the day by musician Nick Cave on AI-generated lyrics: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' — dismissing the use of AI in the creative process
- Apple and the curse of the mythical next thing
- Five questions to test whether an AI stack is truly under your control
- The 6 myths of agile project delivery (and how to solve them)
- The AI era is creating a new CTO
- How SMBs turn AI into lasting business value
- UK businesses don't have a CX innovation problem. They have an operational readiness problem.
- Preparing for post-quantum cryptography: Building a practical roadmap
- Data movement is the new performance battleground in semiconductor design
- AI transformation is now a leadership test
August 10
- 'It's Stalin's dream' — Quote of the day by software pioneer Richard Stallman on the tracking capabilities of cell phones
- Why business leaders need to take quantum seriously
- I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt
- Age verification failed. Regulating VPNs won't fix it
- Why AI-powered jobsite intelligence is key to maximizing construction productivity
- Lessons from the World Cup for building more resilient workforces
- Why financial institutions need a clearer approach to AI governance
- Why tech vendors are key to solving AI's adoption problem
- Without global interoperability, digital IDs can't deliver on their promise
- How AI Is transforming outage response during high traffic events
August 9
- Quote of the day by venture capitalist John Doerr on the Segway: 'It'll be bigger than the internet' — a wild miscalculation about the future of mobility
- This new TV tracking app could do for shows what Letterboxd does for movies
August 8
- Quote of the day by Julian Assange: 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever'
- The RAM crisis just hit a new low — here's my advice on what to do based on 30 years of writing about GPUs, memory and PC components
- After 2 weeks with the Garmin Cirqa, I've fallen back in love with 'vibe running' and ditched my regular watch — and the Strava obsession it enables
August 7
- Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination
- I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device
- Poor data has become enterprise AI's weakest link
- AI was supposed kill my company but we're thriving - here's why
- Quantum's greatest breakthrough may be trust
- Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
- 5 ways AI is changing the way businesses recruit, hire, and train their workforce
- 'Great music is made by people' — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create
- Why AI infrastructure planning must happen now
- Behind every goal: the technology delivering the World Cup to billions
- Do you really know who is on your payroll?
August 6
- Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: 'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things' — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives
- Enterprise AI requires flexible orchestration over risky model lock-in
- Security's AI advantage will go to the organizations already built for accountability
- How can organizations help ensure they're optimizing ROI from their AI investments?
- Why accountability is the next battleground in UK business connectivity
- How open-source malware is re-targeting UK supply chains
- Microsoft’s EWS shutdown should be treated as a warning, not a one-off
- Identity and attack paths - can you stop hackers getting from A to B?
- Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
August 5
- Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Luckey: 'There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor'
- Are we vibe coding our way to a new legacy crisis?
- The cost of being half-hearted in AI and how to avoid the Solow Paradox
- Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks
- The quantum countdown: Are organizations ready to avoid the next Y2K
- Why AI is making work faster, not better
- The measurement challenge behind the shift to GaN in high-frequency semiconductors
- Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge
- We're building the most critical infrastructure of our lifetimes. We're leaving the front door unlocked
August 4
- 'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI
- OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking
- The vSphere 9 decision: migrate, modernize or maximize with purpose
- AI monocultures: the code review problem nobody's talking about
- Telemetry in AI and why it may be a ticking bomb for CTOs and CFOs
- How governance gaps are creating a shadow AI risk for finance leaders
- Why organizations are making trade-offs on software quality in the race to deliver faster
- Rethinking AI adoption: What UK retailers can learn from their US counterparts
- The democratization of AI stopped at the wrong layer
- Enabling the next generation of AI data centers
August 3
- Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: 'All of human art and human experience put into a blender' — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries
- MySpace coming back — again — is no surprise; I’m only shocked it’s not been announced as the first all-AI social media platform
- When AI inherits your technical debt
- Why serious AI builders are skipping third-party evals
- Is AI creating the next wave of software sprawl?
- Why security debt belongs on the boardroom agenda
- The six-stage journey: Why 62% of organizations are stuck below the AI value line
- Why vertical AI is the defining opportunity for enterprise right now
- The infrastructure debt AI creates isn't in the code. It's in the operations
- Why even the biggest brands have low AI readiness
August 2
- Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: 'The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour' — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come
- I defected to the PS5 after 30 years of PC gaming — here's why I have no regrets about swapping the RAM crisis for the disc crisis
August 1
- Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
- Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
- There’s a micro mobility revolution underway in the USA, spurred on by a rise in popularity of golf carts — could this be a turning point for the country that pioneered gigantic SUVs?

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