Tag: software

US Gov report slams Microsoft over email hack—’The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred’

US Gov report slams…

Last year, Microsoft disclosed that a Chinese hacking group referred to as “Storm-0558” was responsible for a security breach…
OpenAI CEO thinks the AI singularity is already upon us and that cracking down on it wouldn’t be good for humanity, because of course he does

OpenAI CEO thinks the…

Tech leaders sure do say some wacky things. But AI tech leaders perhaps say the wackiest things (here’s looking…
Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1

Cloudflare says DDoS attacks…

If you thought the AI industry deals with big numbers—millions of tokens, giga-zigga-exa-flexa-FLOPs (a very real metric, I tell…
AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

AI companies are anonymously…

AI isn’t doing great on the PR front. Whether it’s the exponentially increasing electricity consumption amidst worsening climate change,…
The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn’t down to bad code but bad memory

The father of the…

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and…
2 Star Ocean games go DRM-free on GOG as the storefront promises it’s working on embracing the Linux faithful

2 Star Ocean games…

If you love JRPGs and hate DRM, some good news: the Star Ocean series has arrived on GOG. Well,…
AI is poised to tackle some of the world’s most important issues, including making beer taste better

AI is poised to…

What comes to mind when you think of AI? ChatGPT? Skynet? Cats doing impossible things? How about making better…
A keyboard sticker can turn your new laptop into an AI PC. Probably…

A keyboard sticker can…

Microsoft's Copilot AI functionality recently got some upgrades, allowing it do complete a wide range of OS grunt work…
The disk ‘Format’ dialog in Windows was only meant to be a temporary solution but it’s still chugging along, 30 years later

The disk ‘Format’ dialog…

Just imagine that you're a software developer and you've got an enormous list of tasks to do. One of…
OpenAI’s GPT-3

OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 is the…

You probably already know that large language models (LLMs) are used to power chatbots or generative AI tools for…