Author: Zach_Wilson
Microsoft Teams was down in the big CrowdStrike outage — but bad news, it seems to be back up
A major outage affecting systems across the world saw Microsoft Teams taken offline – but don’t worry – it’s back now you. The video conferencing service was down for several hours following the huge global IT outage affecting Microsoft systems following a faulty CrowdStrike security update. The outage also had…
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Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025. Google announced in a blog post that “the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener,” and…
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Four keys to help businesses combat shadow AI
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation and efficiency across various industries. However, alongside these advancements, a new challenge has emerged in the form of “shadow AI.” This term refers to the unapproved use of consumer-grade AI tools by employees within business environments. With…
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Why tackling the three Ps of cloud migration is key to public sector IT transformation
The UK public sector has experienced severe economic headwinds post-pandemic, with huge pressure to increase staff to help alleviate a cost-of-living crisis, while having to cope with higher inflation. Budgets are being squeezed at all levels regardless of service demands. Something inevitably has to give. So, finding better ways to…
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Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines…
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The additional role tech teams are taking on: AI Prompt Engineers
The rapid evolution of AI technology continually redefines the scope and responsibilities of technical teams – not to mention the greater scrutiny businesses place on their tech partners to understand their AI practices. With the recent AI boom, technical teams have had to evolve in order to maximize their output…
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