Tamlin Magee

1 week ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

With ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs crashing the economy and endless bellicose rhetoric, there are few areas where the Trump administration has not disrupted business-as-usual, at home or abroad. Cybersecurity is one particular arena facing turbulence. Last month, Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defence, was reported to have ordered a pause on offensive cyber operations against Russia. However, this has since been denied by the Pentagon.

1 week ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Businesses in the UK are taking less responsibility for cybersecurity at the board level, according to the Department for Science, Information and Technology’s (DSIT) Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025. Just over four in 10 businesses discovered a cyber breach over the past 12 months. Of those, phishing attempts – when attackers send malicious emails disguised as legitimate communications – were by far the most common, with 18% of all businesses in the UK having suffered such an attack.

2 weeks ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Trust in digital services has plummeted as consumers feel a greater onus to protect their data. And companies that violate their users’ privacy risk losing customers. These are the findings of the 2025 Digital Trust Index, produced by French aerospace and defence company Thales. The report, which surveyed 14,000 consumers across 14 countries, paints a bleak picture for the levels of trust in most sectors.

2 weeks ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Documents that describe the doings of powerful people are rarely accessible to ordinary folk. They’re often stuffed with obfuscatory jargon and euphemisms, which make getting to the truth of a statement a Herculean task. Consider, for instance, the term ‘quantitative easing’, used during the 2008 economic crash. The public might have been angrier had the government labelled this initiative more honestly – perhaps something like, ‘giving billions of pounds to failing banks’.

3 weeks ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Generative AI is supposedly coming for our jobs. But, if Silicon Valley bosses are to be believed, software developers may be especially at risk of redundancy. Late last year, Marc Benioff, the Salesforce chief executive, said his company would not hire any software engineers in 2025 thanks to advances in AI. Meanwhile, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, suggested there’s little point in teaching children to code, because AI will soon be capable of performing the majority of coding tasks.