Tag: software

After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint

After more than two…

Paint.NET is one of the best free tools on the Internet, a Photoshop-like program that comes with much of…
Windows 10’s greatest achievement was not being Windows 8, and I think we can all be thankful for that

Windows 10’s greatest achievement…

Windows 10 is dead. Well, nearly anyway. The much-beloved operating system reaches its EOL on October 14, meaning that…
It’s only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams

It’s only a little…

With its latest update for Windows 11, codenamed KB5089573, Microsoft has finally started to fully roll out something that…
A malware dev has committed a magnificent self-own after an AI-coded malicious package leaked its own GitHub private token

A malware dev has…

We’re continually warned about the prospect of AI-generated malware these days, but there is one important factor working in…
AI software company Graphite says it practices ‘dogfooding’ and ‘onboarding roulette’ by deleting employee accounts at random

AI software company Graphite…

I thought I’d heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was…
Rufus is a free tool that gets rid of most of Windows 11’s installation nonsense and I’ll show you exactly how to use it

Rufus is a free…

Ah, good old Rufus. Where would we be without you? Well, it seems the answer is a world with…
YouTube says it’s making AI-generated content labels more prominent—and to help you see them, here they are zoomed in

YouTube says it’s making…

Have you ever watched a YouTube video and immediately screwed up your face in an attempt to discern whether…
Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade

Steam Workshop now looks…

Exciting news: Steam Workshop is pretty now. Or, at the very least, it’s prettier. Detailed in a Steam news…
‘There’s a lot of rogue attempts at this’: Amid AI music remixing plans, Spotify chief says he wants the company to be ‘the one that’s legal’ and ‘the one that’s controlled’

‘There’s a lot of…

Music streaming platform Spotify announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group last week which would allow subscribers to…
‘Technology is never neutral’: Pope Leo XIV criticises ‘culture of power’ driving AI race, and refuses to be taken in by consciousness claims

‘Technology is never neutral’:…

As an atheist, you won’t see me at Mass, but I’ll gladly welcome the Pope as another AI-sceptic ally.…