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Don’t blame Slack for training its AI on your sensitive data
Slack has come under siege for using customer data to train its global AI models and generative AI add-on. Sure, requiring users to manually opt-out via email seems sneaky (isn’t avoiding email the whole point of Slack?), but the messaging app doesn’t bear all the responsibility here. The most popular…
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AI PCs. Is it all hype, should you switch, and if so, when?
The emerging landscape of AI PCs is set to transform how we work with our devices whether PC or laptop. There are both positives and negatives around this new technology and before embarking on an adoption program, it’s important to know the facts. What is an AI PC? AI PC’s…
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Huawei succeeds where Microsoft failed miserably — HarmonyOS now on almost one billion devices, and China’s largest mobile phone manufacturer has completely eliminated Android
While Microsoft‘s venture into the smartphone operating system market ultimately ended in failure, Huawei’s HarmonyOS has proven to be a huge success and a genuine rival to Android and iOS, at least in its home nation. The operating system is found on over 900 million devices in China, and growing…
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GPD’s double-foldable convertible laptop will come with AMD’s fastest mobile CPU, can display more pixels than a 4K monitor — and comes with an OCuLink connector
GPD, best known for compact gaming devices, is launching its first full-fledged laptop, the Duo Dual-Screen. Initially teased in May 2024, we knew the device would have two foldable 13.3-inch AMOLED Aurora displays offering 10-bit color depth and 1.07 billion colors with touch and stylus input, but other details were…
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You can buy Seagate’s largest hard disk drive right now but don’t think you can use it anywhere — 25TB Exos X26z HDD is affordable but requires special equipment to work
We wrote about the Exos X26z, the largest hard drive Seagate makes, back in December 2023. The 25TB enterprise HDD is a host-managed shingled magnetic recording (HM-SMR) unit that doesn’t work with Windows or macOS. The Linux-compatible drive was created exclusively for Seagate’s largest enterprise customers and has always been…
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Goodbye Natick! Microsoft has given up on one of its coolest projects ever — underwater data center pilot canned despite successful outcomes and won’t come back
Microsoft has officially killed off Project Natick, its underwater data center experiment, which began life in 2015. Noelle Walsh, Head of Microsoft’s Cloud Operations + Innovation, told Data Center Dynamics, “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world. My team worked on it, and it worked. We learned…
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