Your Wi-Fi router’s hidden trick: Easy file sharing between PCs
An easy way to share files between PCs in your home is to set up a share drive using your router’s USB port. You can set up a share drive with just a few easy…
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Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in
Independent AI researcher Simon Willison, reviewing the feature today on his blog, noted that Anthropic’s advice to “monitor Claude while using the feature” amounts to “unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic’s users.” Anthropic’s mitigations Anthropic…
OneDrive gets Copilot AI features like file comparisons and summaries
Microsoft 365 users will now have access to a few more Copilot AI features, as highlighted in this Microsoft OneDrive blog post. Among other things, it will now be possible to summarize the contents of…
Microsoft tests AI-powered file search in Windows 11 with Copilot
Microsoft has started rolling out a new version of the Copilot app (version 1.25082.132.0 ) to testers in the Windows Insider Program. The update includes two major new AI-powered features. The first big feature is…
Ditch Windows Explorer! These programs are better for fast file transfers!
There’s no doubt that dragging and dropping files using Windows Explorer is a super convenient way to copy and move files. But the sad truth is that these transfers are pathetically slow compared to what…
Some guy saved a PNG file to a bird’s brain
With apologies for contradicting the weird stickers and meme-obsessed teenagers you’ve been seeing for the last few years, birds are actually quite real. They aren’t robots built by the government to spy on you. But,…
Security flaw found in GIMP! Avoid opening this file type until it’s fixed
The current edition of GIMP (version 3.0.2) has a security vulnerability that could be exploited to inject malicious code. The developers released GIMP 3.0 back in March, then followed it up a week later with…
MSP360 Backup review: Very effective local backup — and free file backup!
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Available in a fantastically capable free version File-level and imaging (Pro version) backup Supports prosumer/IT online storage services Cons Pro version with imaging is subscription only Lacks support for…
How to use NordVPN’s Meshnet feature for direct file transfers
With Meshnet, the VPN service NordVPN offers a function for securely connecting multiple devices. If Meshnet is activated in the desktop app on the PC and on in the app on a mobile device, it…
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively. That is then fed into the codec, and…