If you thought Windows’ humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft’s never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months back, and now it’s prompting users to pay for a Microsoft 365 subscription to use AI features like Rewrite.For over four decades, Notepad has been…
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I’ve been telling you how amazing the iPhone 16e will be for months, but battery life never made the list of potential highlights. Back then, we thought the handset would be called the iPhone SE 4. The design upgrade to a notch display, the iPhone 16 specs, and a starting price of around $500 were…
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Microsoft followed up its massive January Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities with a more modest crop this month. This time, it released fixes for 57 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in its update, three of which are critical. Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative described one of the vulnerabilities as unprecedented in…
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When Apple introduced the iPhone 16 last year, the company said it would have an exclusive Apple Intelligence feature related to Camera Control called Visual Intelligence. With Visual Intelligence, you can quickly learn “more about the places and objects around you.” You can look up details about a restaurant or business, have text translated, summarized,…
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Market analysis from Forrester has forecast that organisations in Europe are set to increase IT spending by 5% during 2025. According to the analyst’s Global tech forecast 2024-2029, spending will reach $4.9tn in 2025, with accelerated investment in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security and cloud infrastructure. Generative AI (GenAI), cyber security and cloud services are…
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The iPhone 16e is the first Apple device with the company’s custom Wi-Fi chip. Apple says this new radio is “the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone, delivering fast and reliable 5G cellular connectivity.”While we still have to see how it works in real life, Apple apparently feels pretty confident it’s good enough to…
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Two major artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives have been launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris, focused on promoting sustainable and “public-interest” applications of the technology. The first is Current AI, a public interest foundation launched by French president Emmanuel Macron that seeks to steer the development of the technology in more socially beneficial directions.…
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Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are purportedly arriving on March 12Reviews are apparently going to be published the day beforeWe’re still waiting for a key detail here, and that’s the asking prices of these high-end X3D chipsAMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors are rumored to be hitting the shelves on March 12.VideoCardz claims that…
Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU has been spotted in gaming laptops alongside the RTX 5060Incoming HP Victus 15 notebooks will feature these Blackwell GPUsThe RTX 5050 is likely to be a laptop-only graphics card, as with the previous Lovelace generationAway from the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, and the continued stock woes around these GPUs, we’ve…
Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ChatGPT o1 tried to hack the system. This forced the opponent to concede the game, and the AI achieved its goal.Fast-forward to mid-February…
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