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Monday February 3, 2025. 08:15 PM
'We are removing the privacy protection feature and will invest in new areas that will better align to customer needs' If you were relying on Microsoft's Defender VPN, it's time to find an alternative - Redmond is shutting it down at the end of the month.…
Throw Copilot down the same well, too, maybe? No? OK If you were relying on Microsoft's Defender VPN, it's time to find an alternative - Redmond is shutting it down at the end of the month.…
Until now, if you wanted to play the classic computer games The Sims from 2000 and The Sims 2 from 2004, you needed the original CD-ROMs or DVDs. But that’s about to change. In celebration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary, Electronic Arts is releasing The Sims Legacy...
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund and said it may purchase TikTok. From a report: 'We're going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months. We're going to ...
US President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made computing equipment are slated to go into effect tonight — but at a much lower rate than he initially threatened. The 10% tariff will do much less damage than the 100% version that had been touted — and there are...
Microsoft’s powerhouse collection of useful Windows utilities, PowerToys, is adding the ability to strip out an audio track from a video file, plus the more general ability to transcode video files as well. Microsoft isn’t adding an additional app to PowerToys, a...
It’s not every day you see a massive discount on a Samsung Odyssey monitor, but right now you can get the Samsung Odyssey G5 for 36 percent off. Instead of its usual $550, Amazon has it on sale for $350, so you can finally upgrade your setup at a reasonable price. This is...
AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new technique to prevent users from eliciting harmful content from its models, as leading tech groups including Microsoft and Meta race to find ways that protect against dangers posed by the cutting-edge technology. From a report: In a ...
WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.
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The Pokémon Company International says it’s “actively investigating” ways to improve the feature after players threatened to cancel their subscriptions.
As part of Microsoft’s big push into AI services, the company has created a new department called the Advanced Planning Unit (APU). Employees of the APU will, among other things, study the effects of AI on society and make recommendations about which products are worth...
Fox News will report that Mexico has caved in, but anyone paying attention knows that Mexico agreed to nothing new, and convicted felon #47 has backed down. Everyone except conservative media understands that Trump got suckered into giving Mexico and we, the US consumers, a...
For many users, myself included, Windows 10 and 11 are functional but unremarkable. The design, while supposedly modern, tends to be a bit, well, boring. The current design comes across as bland, offering little of the warmth or personality that once defined Windows....
A glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy year for troubled chipmaker Beleaguered chip giant Intel has at least one thing to smile about after receiving a payout of €515.55 million ($536 million) from the EU in relation to an old antitrust case that it challenged.…
It’s hard to find a cheap laptop out there. Well, that’s not quite true. It’s hard to find a cheap laptop that’s actually worth buying. But today Staples has one that’s a godsend if you’re in the market for an affordable laptop that can run Windows well. The Asus ...
Microsoft has moved TypeScript 5.8 into the beta stage. The new release of the company’s typed superset of JavaScript introduces a limited form of type checking against conditional types in return statements. The TypeScript 5.8 beta was introduced January 29. To get...
In cybersecurity, the divide between IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) remains a problem that practitioners, vendors, and consultants must navigate daily. The differences between these two mindsets -- one rooted in the world of delivering data and...
Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure company, will now track and verify the authenticity of images across its network through Content Credentials, a digital signature system that documents an image's origin and editing history. The technology, developed by Adobe's Content...
Apple’s iPhone business isn’t just about new product sales. The second-user and services markets need to be considered, too. Not only does the company command the first market, but it continues to generate healthy services-related revenue on every iPhone used — an...
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