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Here you’ll find useful IT advice, as well as the latest stories from Wessex IT, our clients and the fast-moving IT industry.

We’ll Tame The Technology While You Bring Home The Bacon

Keeping up with the steady stream of new technologies, software updates, cybersecurity threats, and system upgrades can feel like a full-time job. For many small to medium-sized business, the very tools designed to boost productivity and improve security can become sources of stress and confusion, leading to the serious condition

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Are You Driving Without A Spare Tyre?

Data backups may not feel urgent when everything’s working fine, but when something goes wrong, they can be the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major catastrophe. Not backing-up your data is like driving without a spare tyre. Most of the time, you don’t need it – but when

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BFFs Tell You The Truth. AI? Not Necessarily!

There’s a problem with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and CoPilot. These digital chatterboxes have a bit of a “yes-man” syndrome, meaning they strive to be overly helpful, sometimes at the cost of being accurate. They were trained to use Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, which was meant to

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Bob Mortimer May Do His Own Dentistry But …

We’ve all met that person – you know, the one who watched a YouTube video and now thinks they could perform minor surgery or build a rocket in their garage. That is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action: the curious human tendency for people with limited knowledge to overestimate their abilities.

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I’m Looking At You Steve in Accounts!

Plot twist: The biggest cybersecurity threat to your business isn’t hackers in hoodies. It’s Steve from accounting clicking on that ‘urgent’ email. 👨‍💼 95% of successful cyber-attacks start with human error. But here’s the good news – humans can also be your strongest defence. The secret? Making staff aware of

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