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AI tools write code, answer tickets and draft configs in seconds. The evidence says they also make confident mistakes. Ten traditional IT disciplines that matter more, not less, when the machine is doing the typing.
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Solar panels last 25 years or more, inverters do not, and none of it goes in the skip. How panels fail, how to spot a problem from the inverter, what the UK WEEE rules say and where old panels actually go.
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A single AI text prompt uses about a quarter of a watt-hour; data centres used 1.5% of the world's electricity in 2024 and 2% of Great Britain's. Here are the credible figures, why they vary, and what they mean for a UK home or small firm.
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Five things the pandemic permanently changed about UK small-business IT, with 2019 and 2026 figures from the ONS, the Cyber Security Breaches Survey, Microsoft and Openreach, and a checklist for firms still running 2019-style IT.
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Three-quarters of UK financial firms already use AI for fraud detection, AML and credit decisions. What the Bank of England survey, PSR reimbursement data and UK Finance fraud figures actually show, and what a small business should do.
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