‘Have your bot speak to my bot’: can AI productivity apps turbocharge my life?

I tried out organisational software to help streamline my work and build a ‘second brain’. I never knew there were so many different ways to take notes…

Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’

Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers

Microsoft Excel’s bloopers reel: nearly 40 years of spreadsheet errors

As the software used by millions around the world nears its 40th birthday, here are some of the low points

‘I grew up with it’: readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel

From baby names to wedding planning, fans of the 40-year-old spreadsheet program reveal how it has transformed their lives

Former Post Office IT chief claims Horizon system has no fundamental flaw

Mike Young said he saw nothing ‘fundamentally wrong’ and defended ability to remotely access branch accounts

Less haste more speed will win Labour the race to fix 21st-century Britain

Rebuilding existing infrastructure is key for the government rather than rushed policymaking for new projects

CrowdStrike apologizes for global IT outage in congressional testimony

Faulty update from cybersecurity company grounded hospitals, airports and payment systems in July

iOS 18 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates

iPhone upgrade joined by watchOS 11, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, adding new features to Apple’s devices

Apple Intelligence is coming. Here’s what it means for your iPhone

Apple is about to launch a ChatGPT-powered version of Siri as part of a suite of AI features in iOS 18. What are the implications for how you use your phone – and for your privacy?

Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’

Windows global IT outage: what we know so far

Outage linked to Windows operating system hits banks, airlines, rail services and supermarkets

Tearful testimony confirms for many how much Post Office’s Vennells knew

There were times during Horizon inquiry when victims of scandal struggled to keep composure as former chief executive pleaded ignorance

ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation

Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian

Co-founder leaving ‘to spend more time with his young family, improve the world via philanthropy, and help further the technology industry globally’

Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?

As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?