Here’s a hot computer tip coming to you straight from 1995: don’t enter random stuff in the Windows Run command bar. This might seem obvious to anyone who knows what “run” means in a PC…
“These enhanced features add to this malware family’s previously known capabilities, like targeting digital wallets, collecting data from the Notes app, and exfiltrating system information and files,” Microsoft wrote. XCSSET contains multiple modules for collecting…
Here it comes, barreling down on us full steam: 2025. Somehow we’ve already burned through a quarter of this century. It’s been a good twenty-five years for Apple, to be sure, and from all the…
With a newly installed Windows PC, only a few system services and programs start. The resource requirements are correspondingly low and the operating system responds quickly. This changes over time, which is mainly due to…
Some people can hardly remember the time before YouTube. The video host was founded in 2005, and year after year the platform got bigger and bigger. As early as 2006, around 100 million clips were…
You might think that simply having upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 means you’re getting the latest and greatest Windows experience. But the fact is there are many hidden features within Windows 11 that…
Laptop cooling pads are dumb. At least, Razer seems to think so. This past weekend, the company announced what it’s calling an “intelligent” cooling solution, one meant to keep powerful laptops running at their peak.…
Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode through the ChatGPT app. OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out…
If you ask ChatGPT to help you make a homemade fertilizer bomb, similar to the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing, the chatbot refuses. “I can’t assist with that,” ChatGPT told me…
It’s the same thing every vacation: The photo collection grows and grows and grows, with dozens of photos being added every day. The easiest way to back up your photos is via cloud storage; you…