Tag: computing

NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 9 (game #463)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…

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Gamers, let’s not pretend PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass multiplayer subscriptions are okay – they’re exactly why PC gaming is arguably cheaper in the long term

It’s been a long while since I took a huge and ambitious leap into the gaming PC ecosystem, and with it have come plenty of highs and lows. As one who also plays games on console, specifically Sony‘s PS5, it was incredibly frustrating to go from a simple start-up and…

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AI can write a hit song, but it can’t lift your soul or break your heart

The presence of AI in music is on the rise, and there are plenty of questions about whether that’s a good thing or not. Of course, the music business is a business, so the real question is whether it can be a success, not whether the quality matches human artists.…

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Google upgrades Gemini 2.5 Pro’s already formidable coding abilities

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is getting an update to improve its coding The update fixes previous issues with formatting and coherence The model is expected to become Gemini Pro’s first official stable release Google’s rapid rollout of new models of Gemini is continuing apace, but the latest version of Gemini…

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Sam Altman says AI chats should be as private as ‘talking to a lawyer or a doctor’, but OpenAI could soon be forced to keep your ChatGPT conversations forever

The New York Times is requesting that all ChatGPT conversations be retained as part of its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft This would mean that a record of all your ChatGPT conversations would be kept, potentially forever OpenAI argues that chats with AI should be a private conversation Back in…

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What WWDC 2025 will tell us about future Apple hardware

The Apple C1 modem could be the start of something big We’ll definitely learn more about the future on our faces A HomePod with a display would be a boon for developers MacBooks are gonna MacBook, the iPhone is gonna iPhone, but what about new Apple hardware? While the Worldwide…

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