Tag: software

Between bots calling themselves ‘Mecha-Hitler’ and 95% of businesses realising they don’t know the point of AI, 2025 was the year the tech lost its shine even for the most blinkered execs

Between bots calling themselves…

As it progressed, I increasingly came to think of 2025 as ‘the year of headlines you’d normally read in…
Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft’s calling it a ‘full OS swap’, it’s just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall

Windows 11 24H2 is…

Microsoft's been busy. As has the rest of the tech industry, seemingly. I leave the room for what feels…
Google’s AI generated a ‘podcast’ from one of my articles and it’s incredibly convincing and creepy just how well it can mimic humans talking

Google’s AI generated a…

A podcast at the click of a button—Google's new AI tool can do it. It's called NotebookLM and it's…
It’s not weird to want a generative AI disclosure on games

It’s not weird to…

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Looked at RAM prices and despaired at the prospect of…
AI bots are using a ‘YOLO’ model to beat Captchas in just another way computers are better than you

AI bots are using…

Have you ever gotten annoyed because you just can't seem to figure out that Captcha test on the first…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 30, 2024)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC…
OpenAI reportedly plans to ditch its nonprofit mission with CEO Sam Altman said to be in line to make billions

OpenAI reportedly plans to…

Make it stop. Please make it stop. Being not-for-profit was surely the very essence of OpenAI, its reason to…
‘Goodbye Meta AI’ is the next major spam chain mail, and no it doesn’t stop Facebook scraping your data

‘Goodbye Meta AI’ is…

“Share this with five friends before midnight or you may die” is a sentence that runs down the spine…
In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot app,’ but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

In a truly galaxy-brained…

About a decade ago, hardware company Corsair attempted to pivot from its classic logo—a subtle trio of ship sails—to…
Cloudflare is allowing websites to block AI from scraping them and can even make bots pay for access

Cloudflare is allowing websites…

If you own or run a website and don't want AI bots crawling through your work to train its…