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The desktop/laptop market has been pretty quiet for several years. Windows carved out its dominant space, and despite repeated claims that it would happen, Linux never really emerged as a challenger on the desktop. The Apple Mac proved to be a solid if pricier alternative,...
One of my favorite Android features right now is something that’s simultaneously new and familiar. It’s Circle to Search — a clever concept that came out for Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones along with the Galaxy S24 earlier this year and is now in the midst...
Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear Opinion Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it's actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey.…
Five-hundred-and-ninety in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. The Moment Update 5 for Windows 11 is finally here for most users. It is...
Conversations around artificial intelligence and the threat it poses to humanity have been building for years. The launch of ChatGPT (or generative AI) nearly a year ago thrust the issue to the forefront of the global agenda. Discussions have reached such a fever pitch that...
Just about everyone who has used Windows has at some time complained that it is slow. The sluggish performance of Windows 11 -- in particular the Start menu -- has even been noted by an ex-Microsoft developer who worked on the creation of the operating system. Software...
Project managers know how challenging it can be to get complex projects done on time and under budget. There’s no shortage of project management software on the market to help, but you won’t find much more bang for your buck than with this deal on Microsoft Project...
And be paid danger money while he did it On Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly wander through readers’ recollections of being asked to perform tech support under all sorts of strange circumstances, most of them difficult. But not always.…
Artificial intelligence is just about impossible to avoid, and not content with packing Windows with AI-powered features, Microsoft is doing the same with PowerToys. Details are currently a little thin on the ground, but the popular collection of utilities is due to gain a...
China is rapidly advancing its space capabilities to challenge the United States' dominance in space, as evidenced by its significant increase in on-orbit intelligence and reconnaissance satellites and the development of sophisticated counterspace weapons. Space.com reports: ...
Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive The UK's competition watchdog sniffed around the AI industry with a bit more interest than usual on Thursday at an antitrust event in the US.…
Microsoft, it seems, never learns. Despite having repeatedly riled users by pestering them with ads for its products the company seems intent on continuing to use Windows to badger people. The latest example of this is a full screen message displayed to Windows 10 users...
Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats Several French municipal governments' services have been knocked offline following a 'large-scale cyber attack' on their shared servers.…
Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased Apple has made a significant change to the wording of its threat notifications, opting not to attribute attacks to a specific source or perpetrator, but categorizing them broadly as...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense, whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the beta release of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 (code-named 'Noble Numbat'). Delayed by one week due to the backdoor found in the xz data compression library, the...
As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration VMware's end user compute products appear likely to be rebranded as Omnissa after being sold off.…
Amanda Hoover reports via Wired: Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows. A year ago, Turnitin rolled out an AI writing detection tool that was...
Harvard College is reinstating the requirement for standardized testing, reversing course on a pandemic-era policy that made them optional. It follows similar moves from elite universities like Yale, Dartmouth, and MIT. Axios reports: At Harvard, the mandate will be in place ...
Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's latest stop on his AI emperor roadshow was in the United Arab Emirates, where he floated the idea of a global consortium of governments and private...
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