Software

US federal agencies must appoint chief AI officers, according to new guidelines

Adobe's new AI aims to become the invisible helping hand for marketing teams and creatives

HWiNFO 8.00 adds a new FPS and system statistics overlay

GPT-4 loses its position as "best" LLM to Claude-3 in LMSYS benchmark

Canva acquires Affinity for $380 million to take on Adobe

MIT researchers showcase novel method for super-fast AI image generation

Uncannily Fast: Generative AI services can produce a high-quality visual patchwork but are usually quite sluggish. Researchers from MIT and Adobe have developed a potential solution to this time-consuming issue, with a new super-fast image generation method with minimal impact on quality. The technique spits out about 20 images per second.

Chrome is getting better text rendering in Windows thanks to Microsoft engineers

Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs

Google's AI-powered search can recommend malicious sites, including scams and malware

DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6 adds support for new video formats

Windows UI for disk formatting was a temporary solution that stuck for 30 years

Apple prepares in-box iPhone software update system for unboxing convenience

Microsoft adds spellcheck and autocorrect to Notepad

Larian is walking away from Baldur's Gate 3, no DLC, no expansions, no sequel

Wow! Larian Studios stunned the crowd during a panel discussion at the Game Developers Conference. Founder and CEO Swen Vincke revealed that the studio has no interest in expanding upon its massively popular Baldur's Gate 3 RPG. He clarified that fans shouldn't get their hopes up for any DLC, expansions, or a Baldur's Gate 4.

Formula 1 chief retires "impossible to navigate" Excel spreadsheet used to manage car parts

WTF?! When James Vowles took over as team principal for the Williams F1 crew in early 2023, he knew they lagged behind the competition in several key areas. Pat Fry joined the team later that year as chief technical officer, and the two quickly determined that Williams' use of Microsoft Excel to manage its car build workbook was a problem.

AMD promises upscaling quality improvements with FSR 3.1 update, adds Vulkan and Xbox support

Unreal Engine 5.4 revealed running Amy Hennig's new Marvel game

The latest macOS update breaks Java Virtual Machine, among other things

Nvidia shows what games could be like with fully AI-controlled NPCs

This company aims to offer a new gaming OS to compete with SteamOS and Windows

Firefox adds caret browsing in PDFs, improves tab management

YouTube introduces labeling requirements for synthetic and altered content

Steam Family Sharing gets a complete overhaul

Microsoft confirms standalone Office 2024 is coming to Windows and Mac later this year

If you teach a chatbot how to read ASCII art, it will teach you how to make a bomb

In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your company's books or crystal meth. Developers block the chatbot from fulfilling these queries, but that hasn't stopped people from figuring out workarounds.