Posts by Mike Knight
2FA Storm At Twitter
Twitter-owner Elon Musk’s latest decision to turn off SMS 2FA after 20 March unless you pay for Blue Tick has caused another storm of criticism. What And Why? On 15 February, Twitter announced that: “starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2-Factor Authentication unless they are Twitter…
Read MoreWant Free Hot Water? Have A Server In Your House!
Green distributed computer network heating company Heata is offering to provide up to 4.8kWh of free hot water per day in exchange for installing a business cloud server in your home. Green Distributed Compute Network Heata, which began as an innovation project with British Gas, describes itself as “a ground-breaking green distributed compute network that uses the…
Read MoreLocal PR for MSPs
While many managed service providers focus on digital marketing tactics like social media and email campaigns, leveraging local news media through public relations (PR) can offer unique benefits and help MSPs build credibility in their communities. Here are some of the main benefits of using PR through local news media : Increased brand awareness: By…
Read MoreStopping SafeSearch From Being Too Safe
Following anecdotal reports that some users can’t turn off the strict SafeSearch settings when searching using Bing, we look at what SafeSearch is, and how to control it. What Is SafeSearch? SafeSearch is a setting in Microsoft’s Bing search engine that’s designed to filter out inappropriate web content. How? It works on the search terms…
Read MoreDo Hackers Get Pensions & Sick Pay?
Kaspersky research has shown that hackers are now being recruited with dark web job ads offering huge salaries and benefits! What?! According to Kaspersky’s analysis of more than 200,000 employment ads posted on the dark web between January 2020 and June 2022, ‘employers’ have been seeking applications from the best hackers by offering favourable terms…
Read MoreGoogle Bard’s $100 Billion Bungle
$100 billion/£82.7bn is reported to have been wiped off the value shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet following a rather public error made by Bard, Google’s new answer to ChatGPT. Bard Originally called ‘Apprentice Bard,’ Bard is Google’s conversational AI service which uses Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), Google’s family of conversational neural language models.…
Read MoreQuantum Computing Breakthrough
Researchers from the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum have announced that they have made a major breakthrough in quantum computing that could help solve the most complex real-world problems. What Are Quantum Computers? Quantum computers can carry out complex calculations at high speed. Whereas traditional computers store data in binary ‘bits’ (ones and zeros)…
Read MoreLumpy Mail
It’s said that curiosity killed the cat. Maybe so. However, curiosity also led to the discovery of everything of note from penicillin to the tech you’re using to read this right now. Within the realm of modern psychology, curiosity has been theorised, written about and experimented upon since William James’s work in the 1890’s to…
Read MoreThe 3 Line Email
Sometimes the simple, easiest things are the best. This can be the case with the “3 line email”. Multiple times I’ve had success with this method and anecdotally, I’ve heard some great success stories too. What’s It About? Very often, as business owners, we can have prospects that have been languishing in our CRM, in…
Read MoreSome Thoughts About Virtual Machines In The Cloud
In this insight, we look at what a virtual machine is, where to get one, what it can be used for, plus a few of the main pros and cons. What Is A Virtual Computer? A virtual machine/virtual computer is a software-based simulation of a computer system, generally created and run on cloud-based infrastructure, and…
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