Tag: software

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour…

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week’s multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like…
Electronic Arts signs a deal with Stability AI: ‘We’re evolving how we work so that AI becomes a trusted ally’

Electronic Arts signs a…

Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion generative AI image maker,…
Microsoft resurrects Clippy in Copilot, presumably because it’s intrusive, doesn’t understand context, and is god damn annoying

Microsoft resurrects Clippy in…

Clippy did nothing wrong. I know, you’re all thinking my nostalgia has gone too far, “it looks like you’re…
‘Everything is on the table’: Trump administration reportedly considering curbs on exports made using US software to China

‘Everything is on the…

The US and Chinese governments have been battling it out once more over trade policies, and the big point…
AI is ‘a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,’ Take-Two boss says: ‘A great thing’ for business, but it’s not creative and never will be

AI is ‘a combination…

Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and he’s…
Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95

Windows 10 might be…

Windows 10 may be essentially an ex-operating system, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft has relinquished its appetite for really…
Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’

Palworld studio Pocketpair says…

Palworld developer Pocketpair kicked off 2025 by launching a publishing division, and was immediately swamped with interest: It received…
Catholic church calls for a global AI regulatory framework as the Pope pontificates against the technology arms race, calling for the ‘audacity of disarmament’

Catholic church calls for…

Ever since his election, Pope Leo XIV has made no bones about AI being a central theme for his…
Windows 11 25H2 has borked the mouse and keyboard controls in the Windows Recovery Environment, because what would a major update be without a fresh batch of bugs

Windows 11 25H2 has…

Should your Windows machine run into major difficulties, you may find yourself staring at a blue screen. No, not…
OpenAI stops itself from generating ‘disrespectful’ Martin Luther King Jr

OpenAI stops itself from…

OpenAI has said it will stop its AI video-generating app Sora from creating videos featuring the likeness of Dr.…