Find a new role or job after redundancy
The job market is still pretty tight in April 2026, and IT is tougher than the headline unemployment numbers suggest because employers are hiring more selectively, keeping vacancy growth subdued, and raising the bar for experience. UK labour-market reporting says hiring is close to stabilising, but conditions remain challenging, and technology roles are resilient relative to the wider market rather …
Is 2026 Going to be the Worst Year for IT Layoffs?
So far in 2026, the biggest IT/tech layoffs have been driven by AI spending, restructuring, and cost cuts, with published trackers putting the total anywhere from roughly 45,000 to nearly 94,000 cuts depending on scope and date [1][2][3]. The single largest named cut is Amazon’s 16,000 corporate layoffs in January, while Oracle, Meta, Atlassian, Block, Pinterest, and a growing list …
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
In 2025, economic analysts and sociologists, most notably in a widely discussed analysis by The Economist, have identified Generation X (born 1965–1980) as the “real loser generation” due to a unique convergence of financial and social setbacks. The primary reasons Gen X is characterized this way include: Wealth Lag: Despite being at their peak earning years, Gen X has significantly …
What is AI, AGI and ASI?
We know what AI is but what is AGI and ASI? AI refers to machines performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. AGI is AI with general, human‑level cognitive abilities across a wide range of tasks. ASI is a hypothetical AI that surpasses human intelligence in virtually all domains. Overview AI or ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence): specialized AI that excels …
AI Circular Financing
We’ve all seen the above image when Oracle started making waves about their AI contract to provide OpenAI compute power at their Abilene DC with tonnes of NVIDIA GPUs – well there’s now news about circular financing fraud involving the big AI players… We look at what this article is saying and assess whether a postive circular financing fraud case …
The Reasons Behind Global Internet Outages
There isn’t going to be a single answer to why we are experiencing major global internet outages of late. There will be a number of reasons that are all coinciding to produce these recent occurrences. Recognising these reasons will allow us to predict who is next after AWS, Azure and Cloudflare… Why is today’s internet so fragile? Recent outages at …
