Over two years ago, I wrote an article about how fake women and fake AI content ruined a major magazine – AI Generated-Content On The Rise. How Sports Illustrated’s use of AI-generated content turned a successful magazine, with a long history of journalistic excellence, into an AI-riddled slopfest that […]
As you’d most likely be aware, users have complained bitterly about Microsoft’s insistence on permeating every nook and cranny in Windows 11 with Copilot (AI), and the backlash caused Microsoft to announce it would be pulling back on its Copilot (AI) integration. Both my colleague
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No one would disagree that children need to be protected from unsuitable content on the internet – the UK OSA and recent Australian laws are good examples of this kind of government intervention – but age verification at the operating system level? You’ve got to
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Reports are circulating that Microsoft is working on a fully movable Taskbar, one that can be moved to the top, bottom, left, and right edges. For years, a movable Taskbar has been standard in Windows, but that all changed with the release of Windows 11.
For months, I’ve been reading about a new Start menu in Windows 11 but hadn’t seen it in either of my Windows 11 systems… until now. The new Start menu was installed on one of my Windows 11 machines yesterday, and now I’m not sure
Reports are circulating that Google is in the process of developing a new PC operating system as direct competition to Microsoft’s Windows 11, with a launch date expected to be sometime within the next 12 months. Microsoft has clearly upset a lot of traditional Windows
A Reddit user recently reported that his LG smart TV had just received an update with Microsoft Copilot installing itself, but without an option to remove it. Apparently, Samsung has also introduced this exciting new feature, so this is yet another example of AI
Microsoft has recently announced further steps to prevent users from signing in via a local account: Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE). While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account
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Microsoft has agreed to provide Windows 10 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) with free extended security updates until 13th October 2026. Microsoft’s decision follows pressure from representatives of the Euroconsumers group, who pointed out that Microsoft’s plan to stop providing security updates as
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Google messing with YouTube Shorts without permission! Microsoft introduces AI for Excel with a warning not to use it! We recently published an article detailing Google’s undue influence on the World Wide Web. Now, Google has been caught messing with YouTube Video Shorts. Several leading
Reports have been circulating on tech sites that Windows has lost 400 million users over the past three years. However, those reports have been predicated on an incorrect assumption, and the fact is that Windows global usage has not decreased significantly at all. The story
We’re only halfway through the year, and with the unstoppable rise of AI in the tech industry, we’ve already seen around 100,000 jobs disappear, so we should be very worried. According to a report from Final Round AI, about 500 tech workers are losing their
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Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company) is the largest technology company by profit and among the world’s most valuable companies. ~ Wikipedia Google has recently upped the ante in its fight against ad-blockers, targeting YouTube users with a new round of anti-ad-blocker pop-ups. I received this
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In a somewhat ironic twist, Microsoft has recently announced that it will extend support for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 PCs, completely contradicting an announcement last January that support for Microsoft 365 apps would be discontinued when Windows 10 reaches end-of-support. Obviously, the decision to
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