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Cyber security fundamentals: where to actually start (if you’re not technical)
Many leaders of a 70- to 150-person business don’t know what good cyber security looks like, so they can’t tell whether their IT provider is delivering it. This guide covers […]
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macOS 27 is live: the security changes that will quietly break on your Mac fleet
Under macOS 27, a Mac can show as managed in your DMS (formerly MDM) console and still be missing updates. macOS 27 (Golden Gate) was released on 14 September 2026 […]
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How to report a scam or phishing email at work, and what actually happens next
The instinct to forward a suspicious email to a colleague with “is this real?” feels responsible. It just spreads the same risk to more inboxes. Here’s how to report a […]
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The Pentagon has finished removing Claude, seven months after ordering it out
The US Department of Defence told the BBC on Monday that it has stopped using Anthropic’s AI products. The order to phase them out came in late February with a […]
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What Apple IT help actually means for a 100-person Mac team
Search for Apple IT help, and you’ll get a mix of results: Apple’s own support pages, repair bookings, and companies like ours. They’re not the same thing, and the difference […]
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Before iPhone Duo preorders open, a warning about a fake one
Preorders for Apple’s iPhone Duo do not begin until Friday 16 October, but scammers are already taking action. According to reporting from 9to5Mac, a fraudulent preorder site designed to closely […]
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Choosing the right Mac for every role in your business
Apple sells six current Macs, and the gap between the cheapest and most expensive has never been wider: a MacBook Neo starts at £699, and a fully specced Mac Studio […]
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Apple’s Mac mini gets faster and pricier at the same time
Apple’s new Mac mini M6 is the fastest Mac mini it’s ever built, and the most expensive one at entry level too. The base configuration now starts at £899, up […]
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Excel for Mac: A guide for Windows users (with free shortcut reference sheet)
Excel on a Mac runs the same files, formulas and PivotTables as Excel on Windows. If you’re moving from a Windows PC, most of your skills carry over directly. The […]
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MacBook Air M5: six months on, here’s the honest answer
Six months of deploying the MacBook Air M5 across business environments provides clearer insight into its capabilities than launch specifications alone. Since March, these units have been used in daily […]
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Annual IT policy review: why ‘set and forget’ doesn’t work
A policy written two years ago stops reflecting how a business actually operates the moment the business changes and the policy does not. New tools get adopted, new vendors come […]
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Backup restore testing: the step most businesses skip
Having backups is not the same as being able to recover from them. A backup job can run successfully every night for a year and still fail the one time […]
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The 72-hour window: what insurance and regulatory coordination covers
Having a breach reporting policy and having someone actively coordinate that reporting during a live incident are not the same thing. A policy tells you what should happen. Coordination is […]
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iOS 27’s September patch batch: one of the largest on record
Apple’s 14 September software releases closed 273 unique vulnerabilities once the overlapping fixes across all ten advisories published that day are counted once each. iOS 27 alone accounts for 126 […]
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BCP tabletop exercises: testing your response before a real crisis does
A tabletop exercise is a live, facilitated walkthrough of a real incident scenario, run against your actual business continuity plan (BCP), with the people who would genuinely be in the […]
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Vulnerability and CVE detection: closing the Cyber Essentials Plus window
Continuous CVE detection tracks and prioritises vulnerabilities as they emerge, rather than catching them at the next scheduled scan. That distinction matters more than it used to. Cyber Essentials Plus […]
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OpenAI’s researchers spend $140,000 a month on AI tokens. What does that mean for a UK business?
OpenAI recently disclosed how much its own researchers spend running AI models against their work. The median researcher now spends around $600 a day on tokens, roughly $12,000 a month. […]
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Anthropic, Musk and OpenAI call for a slowdown on AI development. Why don’t they slow it down themselves?
On 12 September 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” arguing that the AI industry needs to slow how fast it improves model […]
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act’s 24-hour reporting rule: is it actually realistic?
On 11 September 2026, a new clock started running for any manufacturer selling a “product with digital elements” into the EU. Under Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation […]
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John Ternus’s first keynote as CEO signals steady leadership for Apple-first businesses
On 9 September, John Ternus stood on an Apple stage as CEO for the first time and did what every Apple CEO before him has done: introduced new hardware. Ternus, […]
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AirPods 5: is this the generation to upgrade?
AirPods updates rarely reinvent the product, so the honest question every generation is whether there’s a specific reason to replace what’s already in your ears. This year, Apple’s answer is […]
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iPhone 18 Pro: does the upgrade change everyday use?
Every year, Apple’s Pro line arrives with a faster chip, and every year the same question follows it: does that translate into anything a user would actually notice, or does […]
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Apple Watch Series 12: is there enough to justify upgrading?
For an existing Apple Watch owner, the annual question is always the same: has enough changed to make upgrading worth it, or is this a cosmetic refresh? This year Apple’s […]
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Apple Watch Ultra 4: how does it compare with the standard watch?
Apple Watch Ultra has always been positioned as the larger, tougher option, but the natural question each year is what, beyond size, actually separates it from the standard Watch. This […]
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Apple Intelligence: hardware and software are becoming more closely connected
Apple Intelligence has always required a specific tier of hardware to run at all. What’s new this cycle is a second, separate constraint layered on top: how much you can […]
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iPhone Duo: has Apple answered the foldable durability question?
Every foldable phone since Samsung’s first has faced the same question: does the fold survive daily use, or does it become the first thing that breaks? Apple confirmed its answer […]
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iOS 27, what changed since WWDC and what IT teams should know
WWDC set out what iOS 27 would include. The September event set out when it actually arrives, and added one detail WWDC didn’t cover at all. The confirmed release date […]
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Device compliance, not just MFA, should decide who gets into Microsoft 365
Multi-factor authentication proves someone knows the right password and holds the right device at the point of login. It says nothing about whether that device is actually safe to trust […]
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Network segmentation is what limits how far a single breach can spread
Most network management conversations start with WiFi and stop there, but WiFi is only the visible part of a much bigger system. For a growing business, “network management” actually covers […]
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Apple’s September 9 launch brings a foldable iPhone and a new CEO’s first keynote
Apple holds its “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday 9 September, and two things make this one different from the usual annual refresh. It’s the first keynote under new CEO […]
