Tag: software

OpenAI claims Elon Musk ‘demanded absolute control, and to be CEO’ while also agreeing to ditch its non-profit status back in 2017, despite him now suing it for turning decidedly for-profit

OpenAI claims Elon Musk…

The complex history between OpenAI and Elon Musk, former co-chair of said AI company, has taken an unexpected turn.…
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…
Meta’s deepfake-fighting AI video watermarking tool is here, and for some reason it’s decided to call it the Video Seal

Meta’s deepfake-fighting AI video…

Look, forgive me, all right? It’s Friday afternoon as I write this, and I know I’ve picked a silly…
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…