Tech News Update W/E 15 November 2024

This week’s Tech News Updates cites everything from the wonderful and weird: AI Grannies to bore scammers, top passwords you should avoid, outage means a dark day for Bluesky, SME’s voice cyber concern over remote work and crypto surge fails to hide the foibles of digital currency fraud.

Remote Working Presents a Significant Cybersecurity Concern
New study by Markel Direct reveals that nearly 1 in 4 UK SMEs worry about securing remote work environments contributing to additional cyber threats. Read more here.

Outage hits Bluesky just as the platform's popularity takes off
The social media platform Bluesky was hit by an outage on Thursday, amid a rising wave of popularity for the app, which is often described as a friendlier alternative to X. Read more here.

Some of Substack’s Biggest Newsletters Rely on AI Writing Tools
New analysis shared with WIRED indicates that Substack hosts plenty of AI-generated writing, some of which is published in newsletters with 100,000s of subscribers. Read more here.

These are the passwords you definitely should NOT be using
The password manager NordPass has once again released its annual list of the world’s most popular passwords — and the lack of creativity is just a little disheartening. Read more here.

‘Daisy’ the 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears
After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line for hours to waste their time. Read more here.

US hacker sentenced over Bitcoin heist worth billions
Bitcoin is surging, but the weakness of digital currencies is exposed once again as a hacker is sentenced to 5 years in a US prison for laundering proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Read more here.