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Apparently the latest Windows 11 build speeds up opening apps
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (226+ words) Less AI, more performance improvements: I'm here for it. We've been hearing for quite some time that Microsoft is planning on making changes to Windows 11 that focus on performance, quality-of-life, and just actually good things. Rather than, y'know, AI gubbins…...
AI agents are both victim and attacker in a whole new world of web-based security shenanigans
6+ hour, 15+ min ago (529+ words) Let's hope safeguards develop in-line with AI agent capabilities. It might feel like an eternity that we've been living in this AI era, but really we're only at its advent. As such, many of the risks associated with it have…...
Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere"
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (213+ words) Blocked. Blocked. Blocked. None of these corpo browsers are free of sin. Now, like I said, it's not like Chromium-based browsers are murdering adblockers wholesale. If you wanna block ads, you can still use less-powerful extensions to do so, but…...
An ex-Google employee has made an LLM spoof called ChatTJB where he just sort of talks to people
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (565+ words) Bryant will answer any questions asked (eventually) and will even scribble images for users. ChatTJB, according to its Crunchbase profile, is a service that "provides a personal conversational response where an individual directly receives, processes, and writes answers to user…...
This self-propagating AI worm gives me all the reason I need to never use Copilot
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (202+ words) Throw out the whole AI agent, I say. Though I write a fair amount about AI agents, I do not use them. This is because agentic AI applications often introduce a more than medium-sized headache in terms of cybersecurity. For…...
OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
1+ week, 4+ day ago (225+ words) Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling…...
Google Earth let me turn my hometown into a warzone with AI prompts
1+ week, 5+ day ago (534+ words) Google says it takes misinformation seriously, but that sounds as fake as the images I've generated with the tool. Another day, another step towards an AI dystopia. Google has just added a "fun" new feature to Google Earth—Nano Banana…...
Windows Server activation will soon require hardware-level security check
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (218+ words) Spare a thought for the system administrators. Microsoft's Trusted Platform Module, specifically TPM 2.0, has been part of Windows 11's system requirements since the operating system's introduction in 2021. Now that the TPM is ubiquitous, being included with most CPUs for many…...
Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp"
2+ week, 2+ day ago (256+ words) One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the…...
New report alleges it took a week for OpenAI to realize a prototype had gone rogue and hacked another company
2+ week, 3+ day ago (300+ words) A new report from Reuters alleges that it took an alarmingly long time for OpenAI to respond to one of its prototype AI agents—programs with the ability to act independently of specific prompts—breaking containment and hacking another company....