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The Future Has Arrived: Uber Launches Self-Driving Taxis in London
London’s busy and iconic streets are getting a major technological upgrade today. On September 3, 2026, Uber teamed up with British AI innovator Wayve to officially launch the city’s first self-driving taxi service. For Londoners calling a ride, the future is now just a tap away, though it comes with a characteristically British and cautious…
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Reflections from ICR’26: Data Science, Health Informatics, and Exploring Berlin
I recently had the opportunity to travel from Spain to attend The Fifth International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’26). The event was held in Berlin, Germany, spanning from August 24 to 26, 2026. It was a fantastic week filled with rigorous academic discussions, topped off with some much-needed sightseeing. Monday and Tuesday My…
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The Internet Is Becoming An App
I have been online long enough to remember when “the internet” and “the web” were different things, and when the web was genuinely a web. Pages linked to other pages and you could view the source of anything. The internet is becoming an app I have been online long enough to remember when “the internet“…
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The Hard Part Moved
Why AI didn’t make programming easier, and what that means for anyone learning it now. I learned to program on a ZX Spectrum in the 80s, and an Amiga in the 90s, typing listings out of books and magazines, and getting them wrong in ways that could swallow an entire afternoon before I found the…
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The Chatbot Made a Promise. The Airline Had to Keep It.
I keep thinking about a fairly minor legal case from a couple of years back. Minor in the sense that it involved about eight hundred Canadian dollars and one grieving customer, not exactly a landmark. But it gets at something every organisation bolting AI onto its website is going to run into eventually, which is……
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Notes from INFOCOMP 2026 in Lisbon
Writing this from Lisbon with INFOCOMP 2026 winding toward its close tomorrow. It has been a full week at the Mercure Lisboa for the DataSys 2026 cluster of conferences, and as a member of the steering committee I tend to arrive with a bias toward optimism about the program. This year’s edition really did deliver…
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When the World’s Top Consultancy Gets Hacked by an AI Agent
McKinsey & Company – one of the most prestigious and well-resourced consulting firms on the planet – had its flagship AI platform, Lilli, comprehensively compromised. Not by a nation-state hacking group or a team of elite security researchers, but by an autonomous AI agent built by CodeWall.ai. The findings are a wake-up call for every…
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Ten Years of Docker
How a Simple Idea Reshaped Software Development In 2013, Solomon Hykes took the stage at PyCon and introduced Docker to the world with a deceptively simple pitch: “Shipping code to the server is hard.” A decade later, that moment stands as one of the most consequential product launches in modern software history. With millions of…
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Google API Keys, Gemini, and a Lesson in Silent Risk
When the Rules Change Overnight As someone who works at the intersection of technology, business, and education, I find that some of the most important lessons in cybersecurity don’t come from spectacular breaches – they come from quiet, systemic shifts that nobody notices until it’s too late. The recent findings published by Truffle Security on…
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The Silent Watchers in Your Browser
What 287 Chrome Extensions Tell Us About Digital Literacy As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about technology, education, and the skills our students need to navigate the modern world, a recent investigation caught my attention – and frankly, it should catch yours too. A detailed technical analysis published on the QContinuum…
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