Tag: computing
Reddit failing to load for you? Live updates as the site and app encounter errors
If you’re having some issues accessing Reddit – either on the web or via the app on Android or iOS – you’re not alone. First spotted by my colleagues in the UK, Reddit is in the midst of an outage, with “Oops” appearing when trying to open the main page…
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WeTransfer issues flurry of promises that it’s not using your data to train AI models after its new terms of service aroused suspicion
WeTransfer users were outraged when it seemed an updated terms of service implied their data would be used to train AI models. The company moved fast to assure users it does not use uploaded content for AI training WeTransfer rewrote the clause in clearer language File-sharing platform WeTransfer spent a…
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NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1488, Wednesday, July 16
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle 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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here. It’s time for your guide…
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Microsoft employee uses terrible AI-generated image to advertise for Xbox artists just weeks after massive layoffs
An employee used a very bad AI-generated image to advertise graphic designer jobs at Xbox The image shows a woman writing code that somehow appears on the back of a computer monitor, among other problems The ad is especially awkward as Microsoft recently completed laying off more than 9,000 people…
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Google transforms NotebookLM into a curated knowledge hub and I might be in geek heaven
Google introduces featured notebooks into NotebookLM The curated content comes from sites like The Economist and The Atlantic You can ask questions about each notebook Tired of waiting for you to use NotebookLM to make fantastic learning resources of your own, Google has decided to take matters into its own…
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Is the inside of your PC a dust-filled nightmare? Maybe not in the future, thanks to case filters inspired by the human nose
A ‘bioinspired super-adhesive filter’ has been tested by Korean scientists It uses oil, mimicking ‘mucus-coated nasal hairs’ for better filtering of dust Your PC could be a lot more dust-free in the future as a result, if this ever comes to fruition with mesh case filters The dust filters that…
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