TechRepublic: TIOBE Index for August 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages
In a list of the top 10 programming languages, Python continues to extend its lead.
TechRepublic: Wyoming AI Facility Will Consume More Power Than All the State’s Homes Combined
In Wyoming an AI facility will consume more power than all the state’s homes combined.
UK Tech News: Government to deploy AI to catch criminals before they strike
Is this the first real version of the ideas used in the film Minority Report?
BBC: HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats’ social media
Be careful what you post – HM Revenue & Customs is now using AI to scour social media on people they suspect are not telling them the whole truth when filing returns.
ITPro: The UK’s ‘chronic shortage of cyber professionals’ is putting the country at risk
The UK has a chronic shortage of cyber professionals.
Interesting Engineering: World’s largest-scale brain-like computer with 2 billion neurons mimics monkey’s mind
Engineers in China unveiled a new generation of a brain-like computer that mimics the workings of a macaque monkey’s brain.
Finextra: Standard Chartered signs AI deal with Alibaba
This is an interesting move by Standard Chartered, choosing Alibaba Cloud as its strategic partner for AI technologies.
Finextra: Sam Altman fears AI-enabled fraud crisis
Sam Altman raises a very good (and obvious?) point here.
Finextra: NatWest hires AWS and Accenture to consolidate customer data across the bank
NatWest Group have hired Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Accenture to try and solve one of the biggest problems that all banks have – consolidating data so it can be easily managed and used.