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A stolen handset is replaceable hardware. The bank apps, email inbox and messaging accounts sitting behind its lock screen are not. That is why the first sixty minutes after a theft should follow a fixed sequence rather than panic: lock the device, cut the SIM, secure the money and the accounts, and only then file … Read more
A chatbot can confidently cite a 2021 The Lancet study, article 14 of a law, or a line from Einstein. The citation may be flawless in form and entirely invented. For users of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot, fabricated sources can slip into a court filing, journal submission, or business report. Courts and journals face … Read more
AI agents that browse, click, fill forms and buy now inherit their owners’ logged-in sessions. That convenience creates an unresolved security problem: prompt injection, where hidden text in a webpage, email, document or image is read as an instruction. The result is an attack surface inside the bank, inbox and cart. OWASP ranks it first: … Read more
An eight-character password mixing upper and lower case, digits and symbols would hold out for roughly 132 years against a well-equipped attacker. Stretch that to sixteen lowercase letters — no digits, no punctuation — and the same attacker faces about 9 billion years. That single contrast, lifted from the 2026 edition of Hive Systems’ perennially … Read more
Every loyalty card, insurance policy and social account leaves behind a record of personal data that most people never get to inspect. European privacy law offers a direct route into that record: Article 15 of the GDPR entitles anyone to ask an organisation whether it processes their data, to receive a copy at no cost … Read more
Every time you ask a recent phone or laptop to summarise a page, transcribe a meeting or rewrite a message, a routing decision has already been made behind the scenes: part of the work runs on a dedicated chip inside your device, and part of it travels to a server. Understanding where that boundary sits … Read more
Three seconds of audio is enough for a criminal to rebuild your voice convincingly enough to fool your own family. That is the figure Starling Bank puts at the heart of its Safe Phrases campaign, and it reframes a very old fraud. The “relative in trouble” call has not changed its script, only its raw … Read more
Since 20 June 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the European Union must carry a standardised energy label built on a single testing protocol applied identically to every brand. Six measured values — energy class, endurance per charge, drop resistance, battery cycle life, repairability and ingress protection — now appear on the box, in shops … Read more
Ask how much a single chatbot query costs the planet and the answers scatter wildly: anywhere from a tenth of a watt-hour to several watt-hours, and from five drops of water to roughly 45 millilitres. None of those figures is invented. Each measures a different thing, on a different model, inside a different data centre … Read more
The code that arrives by text message protects the wrong asset: your phone number, not your account. That design flaw makes SMS two-factor authentication a last resort. The upgrade path runs from authenticator apps to passkeys, then to hardware FIDO2 keys for accounts you cannot afford to lose. SMS codes follow the number, not the … Read more