This week governments, hospitals and big companies took websites offline to avoid being hacked. The cause is two serious flaws in PHP. That’s the software running quietly behind most websites, including every WordPress site. Attackers can use them to take over a website, and they’re already trying. The fix is out. But it only protects you once it’s been applied. If your firm’s website runs on WordPress, here’s what to do this week: - Find out who hosts your site (your web designer will know) - Ask your host to confirm your site has had this week’s PHP security update - If you’re on an old version of PHP (8.1 or earlier), ask to upgrade... those won’t be fixed - Make sure you have a recent backup first - Update WordPress, your plugins and your theme - Remove any plugins or old sites you no longer use If you’re on Squarespace, Wix or similar, the platform looks after this for you. Not sure what to say to your host? Ask ChatGPT or Claude to write the email for you. Mention “this week’s PHP vulnerabilities” and ask them to confirm your site is patched. Most firms I speak to don’t know what their website is built on. Do you? 👇

I don't know if this is scary or what... I got an email: You're invited to advertise on ChatGPT. Millions of people come to ChatGPT every day to discover options, compare choices, and decide what to do next. ChatGPT Ads give your business an opportunity to show up in these high-intent moments.

Four days ago, Anthropic released something that completely blew me away. It's called Claude Design. And it solved a problem I've been struggling with for weeks. I'm not a designer. Never have been. But I needed a beautiful eBook and a landing page for it... and everything I'd tried felt clunky or took too long. In the video I show you: • How Claude Design works (it's at claude.ai/design, separate from the main app) • How to upload your brand style guide, logos, and colours to create a design system • How it created a complete, beautifully designed eBook from just my copy • How I then created a matching landing page in the same session • How I exported everything and built the live page in Lovable using vibe coding The design quality genuinely shocked me. This isn't basic template stuff... it's proper, professional design that respects your brand guidelines. You only set up the design system once. After that, it knows your fonts, colours, gradients, logos... everything. Then you just tell it what to create. My honest take? This is the best AI design tool I've used. Better than anything I've tried in Canva for this kind of work. And it's fast... the eBook took about 10 minutes, most of which was Claude thinking while I got a coffee. The video is below 👇 (It's on my YouTube Channel. Please support the channel with a Like, Subscribe and Comment 🙏) Have you tried Claude Design yet? What would you create first? P.S. If you want to check it out (or even get the eBook) click here

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Big news: Intuit (the company behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp) has partnered with OpenAI to deeply integrate AI into their product ecosystem. This means apps like QuickBooks will soon be able to connect directly to ChatGPT. So, what does that mean for us in the accounting space? 🧠 AI-powered workflows are about to get much more practical inside tools we already use 💬 Client conversations, forecasting, and compliance could soon include real-time GPT guidance 💻 ChatGPT connectors to QuickBooks may reshape how we do reconciliations, reports, and insights 💡 Opportunity for firms who understand AI first—before clients do it themselves And one big thought: If this becomes mainstream, how will your firm differentiate itself? I’d love to know… 👉 Are you using any GPT integrations or AI tools inside accounting platforms yet? 👉 How do you see this shift impacting your work? Drop your thoughts in the comments 👇 (And if you want to read more, here’s the original article: TechCrunch link)