Right, let's talk about the £15,000 security investment that just got absolutely destroyed by a £300 office printer. A marketing agency did everything right: new firewalls, endpoint protection, hardware authentication keys for every staff member, security audit came back clean. Two months later? Someone had been accessing their client files for weeks through their HP printer still using admin/admin as credentials. While you've been securing laptops and servers, your printer has full network access, stores every document you print, and still uses the password it shipped with. Pull up a chair, this intervention is long overdue.

Microsoft's restarting Three Mile Island. Google's building small modular reactors. Amazon's buying nuclear capacity. And you're getting the bill. While tech giants scramble for gigawatts to power their AI fantasies, your cloud costs are climbing faster than a hyperactive squirrel on espresso.

AWS up 15%, Azure up 12%, SaaS tools adding "AI features" you didn't ask for at 20% premium. But here's what nobody's telling you: you don't need to accept this as inevitable. Seven specific actions you can take today to stop funding Silicon Valley's nuclear renaissance with your operating budget.

They're growing brain tissue in Swiss laboratories and using it to process information. Not simulations. Actual living human neurons, derived from skin cells, housed in specialized chambers, connected to electrodes, computing.

FinalSpark's Neuroplatform has 16 brain organoids containing roughly 160,000 neurons total. Each organoid interfaces with 8 electrodes sampling at 30 kHz. The system has operated continuously for four years, testing over 1,000 organoids, collecting 18 terabytes of data.

The peer-reviewed research is published. Nine universities have free access. You can watch neurons computing in real-time on their website.

This is happening right now. Not science fiction. Science fact.

There's a lab in Switzerland where they're building computers out of living human neurons. Sounds completely barking mad, right?

Here's the thing: these brain cells compute using one million times less energy than silicon. Meanwhile, training a single AI model now produces the carbon emissions of 500 cars over their entire lifetimes. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just committed billions to restart nuclear power plants because they can't keep the lights on.

And your business? You're paying for every watt through exploding cloud bills. Listen to this week's episode. It's properly mental.

Seven communication platforms. Fifteen employees. £23,000 legal discovery bill when employment tribunal demanded complete records. WhatsApp Business for customers, Slack for projects, Discord for "team building," Signal for "confidential" talks, Telegram for contractors. When they needed to reconstruct one client relationship, conversations were scattered across platforms they couldn't control.

Customer satisfaction dropped 40% because every interaction started from zero knowledge. The legal penalty cost three times more than the actual dispute.

Tonight, count how many platforms your business uses. Calculate your exposure. Because communication chaos isn't flexibility - it's liability waiting to explode.

Yesterday's Episode 6 dropped the bombshell: 42% of business applications are unauthorized. Today we're diving deeper into the hidden app epidemic destroying UK SMB security.

Karen's Dropbox backup strategy with password "Password" shared via email. Marketing teams feeding confidential data to AI platforms. Customer service operations running through WhatsApp Business storing financial information in chat logs.

DNS monitoring revealing 200+ cloud connections in a single week. This isn't isolated incidents, it's systematic security failure hiding in plain sight. The digital squatters have moved in, and most businesses have no idea they're paying rent to criminals.

After analyzing the Ingram Micro ransomware attack and reviewing the latest threat intelligence, I need to be brutally honest about VPN security. We're facing a 56% increase in VPN-related attacks, an 8-fold surge in edge device exploitation, and zero-day VPN exploits jumping from 3% to 22% of all incidents.

The SafePay group's destruction of a $48 billion distributor through basic VPN misconfiguration isn't an anomaly. It's the new normal.

From my civil serice career experience, I can tell you that traditional VPN architectures are fundamentally incompatible with modern threat landscapes. Time for uncomfortable truths.

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is security theatre masquerading as systematic protection. Every second Tuesday, they dump 30-80 vulnerabilities on businesses and expect immediate deployment while providing minimal testing guidance.

It's a monthly game of Russian roulette disguised as responsible disclosure. SMBs get caught between "patch immediately or die" hysteria and "test everything or break the business" paralysis.

Meanwhile, Microsoft profits from both the problems and the solutions. Here's why the entire Patch Tuesday system is broken for small businesses, and what we actually need instead of monthly security panic cycles.

Microsoft just dropped 51 vulnerabilities in June's Patch Tuesday, including 18 rated critical. And I guarantee you, most UK SMBs will ignore the lot. CVE-2025-34567 allows remote code execution through a simple email attachment. CVE-2025-34701 lets attackers escalate privileges with ba

sic user credentials. These aren't theoretical risks but active attack vectors that criminals already exploit. Yet I'll bet half the businesses reading this still haven't patched last month's critical fixes.

This isn't about being behind the curve anymore. This is about being a sitting duck with a neon "hack me" sign flashing above your office.

It's 6 PM on the second Tuesday of the month. While normal people are heading home, UK IT teams are just starting their monthly nightmare.

Microsoft has dumped 150 security fixes with zero consideration for how real businesses operate. No test environments, no staging procedures, no time to breathe.

Just impossible choices: patch immediately and risk breaking everything, or wait and become sitting ducks for "Exploit Wednesday" when criminals reverse-engineer the fixes.

After decades of watching this monthly chaos destroy businesses, I'm done pretending it's sustainable. Here's how to survive Microsoft's security roulette without losing your sanity or your business.

Yes, this is real. Yes, it’s still happening. Businesses in 2025 are still exposing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to the open internet like it’s a perfectly normal thing to do. It’s not. It’s deranged.

It’s like licking a petrol pump and being surprised you got sick. If you’re still running RDP with no VPN, no access controls, no MFA, and no clue , buckle up. This isn’t just a best practice failure.

This is IT malpractice. And if you’re an MSP still recommending it? You should probably stop calling yourself a professional. You’re part of the problem.

It’s 2025, but some UK councils and NHS departments are still sending confidential data via fax machines.

That’s right. No encryption, no audit trail, just a shrieking relic from the 1980s spewing out safeguarding case notes or your latest blood test results from the GUM clinic into a shared office tray.

With the analogue switch-off looming, this isn’t just old-fashioned, or quaint, it’s reckless. Why the hell are printer manufacturers are still enabling this madness - Looking at you HP, Epson, Xerox et al.

If your council or trust or SMB still faxes, they’re not just behind the times. They’re holding the door wide open to the next data breach.

It’s 2025. You’re in a sterile, brightly lit dental surgery — and there it is. A screen glowing with the unmistakable Windows 7 login. The same OS that went end-of-life in 2020. What the actual hell? That PC isn't just a relic — it’s a walking GDPR violation and a ransomware welcome mat.

If your dentist is still running patient records on Windows 7 or even XP, you’re not just risking plaque you’re risking identity theft. Please for the love of all things secure STOP THIS NOW. Before a root canal becomes the least painful part of your visit.