Why can’t Apple’s Pro users have fun too?
Writing the column this week is proving more difficult than usual, because of a major distraction. My iPhone 16 Plus arrived a couple of hours ago, and it’s taunting me. I’m not sure how many…
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Kaspersky defends force-replacing its security software without users’ explicit consent
Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky’s antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared from their computers and had been replaced by a new antivirus called UltraAV, owned by American…
Discord steps up privacy for users with end-to-end encryption
Discord has faced its share of controversies. Just this year, it came to light that 600 million Discord users had their data leaked after someone scraped group chats across thousands of servers. And earlier this…
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model
OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI…
Windows 11 is (finally) a winner with Steam users
A lot of PC users aren’t keen to transition to Windows 11, and gamers seem to be one of the biggest groups of holdouts. But according to the latest Steam survey results, more Steam players…
ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?
On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active users, according to a report from Axios, doubling the AI assistant’s user base since November 2023. The company also revealed that 92…
Ryzen 9000 boost available to all Windows users
AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 series looked promising from its initial benchmarks, but the first reviews and user impressions painted a much more disappointing picture. As it turns out, AMD was testing with a bit of…
Chinese social media users hilariously mock AI video fails
Enlarge / Still from a Chinese social media video featuring two people imitating imperfect AI-generated video outputs. It’s no secret that despite significant investment from companies like OpenAI and Runway, AI-generated videos still struggle to…
Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language…
ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing
On Thursday, OpenAI released the “system card” for ChatGPT’s new GPT-4o AI model that details model limitations and safety testing procedures. Among other examples, the document reveals that in rare occurrences during testing, the model’s…