Tag: software

Microsoft CEO warns that we must ‘do something useful’ with AI or they’ll lose ‘social permission’ to burn electricity on it

Microsoft CEO warns that…

In a conversation at this year’s rich person convention—aka the World Economic Forum—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI…
‘It’s a whole new kind of blerp’: YouTube’s AI-enhanced reply suggestions seem to be working as well as you might expect

‘It’s a whole new…

Have you heard of the dead internet theory? It’s essentially the idea that the internet is primarily populated with…

Google’s AI overview search…

One of the most obnoxious traits of the AI slop era is the way any phrase you type into…
Firefox is getting rid of its ‘Do Not Track’ setting and what it’s being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns

Firefox is getting rid…

Anyone else feel like the past decade has been one of the gradual normalisation of privacy-defiling practices? If so,…
The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn’t a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot

The shift key trick…

Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with…
Steam has just beaten its concurrent players record once again with a whopping 39

Steam has just beaten…

Steam has once again shown its ability to never run out of steam, as a weekend of big game…
FBI recommends coming up with a ‘secret word or phrase’ to make sure your family know you’re you and not some hellish AI copycat

FBI recommends coming up…

Imagine a situation where someone phones an elderly relative and it appears to be a favourite grandchild on the…
Palantir and Anduril have teamed up to ‘ensure the US government leads the world in artificial intelligence’ and this is what happens when LOTR fans get to name companies

Palantir and Anduril have…

I’ve never been that much of a Tolkien buff, but even I know a Lord of the Rings reference…
Ubisoft has fixed some of the issues with Avatar, Outlaws and the Windows 11 24H2 update, but the big three Assassin’s Creed are still borked

Ubisoft has fixed some…

Printers, webcams, routers—the usual things that have issues after a big operating system patch. For the Windows 11 24H2…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 9, 2024)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie…