Helldivers 2 alleviates wait times by boosting server capacity to 700K, but is it really enough?
Success has come at a small cost for Arrowhead
The Windows Photos app gets new AI object removal feature
Android had it and now Windows has it, too
Stable Diffusion 3.0 update (almost) perfects typography in generated images
Stability AI is diffusing the line between real and rendered text with this one
Nvidia app launches in beta: Nvidia's new GPU control panel is much faster, no log in required
One unified app, goodbye GeForce Experience
Something to look forward to: Nvidia is finally making long awaited, much needed changes to their graphics card software. Available now is a new beta application simply called the Nvidia App, which greatly improves the software experience for Nvidia GPU owners. While it doesn't contain all of its features just yet, the eventual goal is for the Nvidia App to replace the outdated Nvidia Control Panel and annoying GeForce Experience into a single unified application.
Forget hallucinations, ChatGPT has developed full blown dementia
The LLM and its offshoots, like Copilot, started spouting nonsense last night
Microsoft Publisher will wave goodbye in 2026
The "professional" design application will be retired in favor of other Microsoft 365 apps
Adobe's new PDF assistant can summarize documents and answer questions
Free until it comes out of beta
Here's how to turn off Microsoft Edge's pesky new sidebar button
Microsoft continues to add irritating new 'features' to its products
Developer sets new record by installing Windows 10 in 104 seconds
The lightning-fast speed might inspire a reevaluation of what a streamlined OS looks like
Android 15 first developer preview tightens up software-hardware harmony
Optimizations take centre stage
Google is testing a feature that holds customer service calls for you until a human representative arrives
Forward-looking: Most people dread calling customer service numbers because it usually means navigating a menu of automated options and then waiting on hold while listening to elevator music, sometimes for over an hour, before speaking to a live person. Google is testing a feature that allows technology to take your place for the initial steps of a call.
Face it, there is nothing that can replace COBOL
And don't hang your hope on generative AI, at least not yet
MSI Afterburner drops XP support, RTSS adds Reflex support
MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 updates the RivaTuner Statistics Server with more than 90 enhancements and new features including programmable conditional layers support, PresentMon and Nvidia Reflex integration.
Slack gets a new AI search function that will dig out the important bits from your chat history
It'll search through your messy message history so you don't have to
OpenAI is testing long-term memory capabilities of ChatGPT
Should chatbots retain personal information?
Chromium developers are working on a browser API for micropayments
TL;DR: Online micropayment systems, involving very small sums of money, have been proposed since the 1990s, but they have been unsuccessful so far. Chromium engineers are attempting to resurrect the concept through a new standardized API, though there is still a lot of work to be done.
Mozilla developers are working on Microsoft Exchange support in Thunderbird
Renovation works on the popular mail program are going strong, Mozilla states
Modder releases Unix-like operating system for the NES
Source code now available on GitHub
Upgrade your diagramming game with Microsoft Visio for just $29
Save hundreds on this top-rated flow chart and project management tool
Nvidia launches a chatbot that can run on your PC's GeForce RTX GPU
"Chat with RTX" requires an RTX 30 or RTX 40 series GPU
Broadcom is discontinuing VMware's free type-1 hypervisor ESXi, too
Users of the bare-metal hypervisor will have to migrate to competing products, or get a license
Microsoft to tighten Windows 11 hardware requirements in upcoming update, impacting users of vintage PCs
For those who managed to get Windows 11 running on 15-year-old PCs
ExpressVPN disables security feature that was leaking DNS requests to third-party servers
Split tunneling mode is temporarily unavailable while programmers look into the issue
Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS
Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades
Windows Insiders can now use Sudo just like they do on Linux
A bit of Linux convenience now on the Windows environment