Tag: software

The team behind Windows NT sent ‘black cardboard coffins’ and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds

The team behind Windows…

No matter how smart you are, there’s always room for a little childish fun. Or an ominous threat to…
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used ‘adversarial poetry’ to jailbreak AI and it worked 62% of the time

Poets are now cybersecurity…

Today, I have a new favorite phrase: “Adversarial poetry.” It’s not, as my colleague Josh Wolens surmised, a new…
Nvidia reminds us it’s not a gaming company anymore, but ‘an AI data center infrastructure company’

Nvidia reminds us it’s…

A recent financial call from Nvidia shared all sorts of roaring successes for the tech giant, including an eye-watering…
NY governor orders a pause on large AI data center construction, to ensure that ‘when companies succeed because of New York, New Yorkers succeed too’

NY governor orders a…

New York State governor Kathy Hochul has announced a year-long moratorium on new high-powered data centers. The executive order,…
We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)

We used to be…

Microsoft has delivered some blows to Task Manager in recent times. As noted last week by PC Gamer’s Andy…
George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: ‘There’s nothing you can do about it… it’s the future’

George Lucas says rejecting…

Just over a year after Lucasfilm, the production company bearing his name, declared creative bankruptcy with a risible display…
New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we’ll be able to disable web results

New changes to Windows…

Say what you want about Windows—I’ve certainly said my fair share—but recent months have shown at least that Microsoft…
New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we’ll be able to disable web results

New changes to Windows…

Say what you want about Windows—I’ve certainly said my fair share—but recent months have shown at least that Microsoft…
More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but ‘only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team’

More Windows security updates…

I’m pretty staunchly opposed to the use of generative AI—for me, it’s the one-two punch of dubiously sourced datasets…
Marathon cinematic director Alberto Mielgo says the 8-minute reveal video was not made with AI and frankly he can’t believe he even has to say that

Marathon cinematic director Alberto…

Marathon is in a flat spin right now, but half a year ago—and despite some bumpiness at Bungie—Sony had…