Month: July 2024
This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry
A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the audience at a tech conference in San Fransisco watching Bloomberg’s Emily Chang interview Reid Hoffman. She asked about Microsoft’s hiring of the team behind Inflection, a would-be OpenAI competitor that Hoffman co-founded. It was an acquisition in everything but name,…
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The Sims 4’s Lovestruck expansion lets you dive into a steamy polyamory sandbox
The new Lovestruck expansion pack for The Sims 4 gives the decade-old sequel a shot of life by turning it into a full-fledged dating sim — including non-monogamous WooHoo-ing for the first time. In addition to polyamory, the $40 DLC adds an in-game dating app, an encounter-planning system, turn-ons and…
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The year so far in AI: the biggest stories from ChatGPT to Gemini and what’s coming next
The generative AI explosion of the last couple of years hasn’t slowed in 2024. There’s been a slew of new products employing large language models and an almost daily blast of some new feature or tool for the existing services. ChatGPT is more powerful and has a new voice mode…
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Windows 11 has never been so popular – but is a fresh surge of installations coming from a place of love or mere tolerance?
Windows 11 is creeping up on its three-year anniversary since launch, and the OS has apparently hit an all-time high for users – almost 30% of all Windows PCs now run Windows 11, at least according to one analytics firm. That may not seem like a lot – frankly, it…
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D-Link routers are being hacked to steal customer passwords — but it says there is no patch
Threat actors are abusing a vulnerability in an outdated D-Link router to steal people’s sensitive data, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity experts from GreyNoise recently reported observing hackers in the wild, abusing a critical vulnerability in D-Link DIR-859 Wi-Fi routers. The flaw is described as a path traversal vulnerability that leads…
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Some Pixel 6 owners say factory resets have bricked their phones
Some folks are reporting being left with bricked Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6A phones after they factory reset them. Google is aware of the issue and is investigating, according to a comment from a member of the Pixel support forums’ product expert program. “Cannot load Android system. Your data…
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