AI giveth and AI taketh away. While some people are reaping the benefits of AI assistance enabling them to work more efficiently, the technology behind this is almost relentlessly hungry for various resources including computer components, and that means the supply of these for consumer devices is becoming scarce.

People never change... No matter how much IT professionals try to warn about the risks of weak passwords, it seems we just can't resist using them anyway despite the huge risks involved as more and more of our lives move online. Let's take a look at this year's top 20!

It's probably something not many of us notice these days, but almost all website addresses start "https" now. This indicates a secure connection between your browser and the website. Starting next year, Chrome will effectively force this change, which may have implications for some old internal business systems.

Many people with a 365 email account who have worked with a company for ages or frequently deal with particularly large emails will have received warnings about their quota being hit soon over the years. Microsoft have a plan to reduce the chances of that happening.

Amongst the many warnings about Windows 10 being out of support later this month, you may well have missed the fact that running a couple of other popular Microsoft products also becomes a security liability on the very same day.

We've now been living with ChatGPT et al for a year or two, and statistics would suggest that most people reading this will have used these systems to some degree in that time. It's pretty clear they are amazing at a lot of things things, but there's plenty of reasons to always be wary...

Is it that time of year already? Windows users will be familiar by this point with annual operating system updates that add new features and improvements, and this year's batch are just around the corner. What changes can we expect this time?

A little over 10 years after it was first released, Microsoft's hugely popular Windows 10 operating system is now reaching the end of the road. The final mainstream support updates will be released in the next few weeks, after which point devices will become increasingly vulnerable to attack. What are your options if you're still running Windows 10?