Make sure you recognize the devices with active access to your email, photos, and other files. If you live in a more populated area, you likely check your doors before bed to make sure they’re locked. The same idea is worthwhile to apply to your vital online accounts, too—verifying thatContinue Reading
OpenAI’s much-awaited improved AI image-generation capability is here. Instead of using a separate image generation model like Dall-E, the new advanced image generator is now part of GPT-4o. There are several AI image-generation models on the market that can create surreal, breathtaking scenes. However, they all struggle to create images involving text,Continue Reading
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched a new AI model that it claims to have the ability to read human emotions. The model is called “R1-Omni,” and it is developed by Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab. By reading emotions, Alibaba’s R1-Omni aims to stay ahead of its rivals, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.Continue Reading
This month’s Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 includes security fixes and a new feature that lets multiple apps use the same camera at once. Windows 11 users have a new update to install. As is usually the case, Microsoft released a Patch Tuesday update on the second Tuesday ofContinue Reading
‘Dark Storm Team’ Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on Monday Repeated outages on social media platform X – formerly Twitter – on Monday are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform, conjoined withContinue Reading
Your home lab should be a testbed for new ideas, techniques, and inspiration while you learn concepts and established wisdom. Of course, it’s no fun without a little chaos as well, and that means sometimes things will break. Well, more often than not, but that’s okay, because with a robust backupContinue Reading
A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced a new “native” Copilot app for Windows. However, the excitement quickly faded when users discovered that the program was still a web app. Now, Microsoft is finally addressing the complaints with a truly native XAML Copilot app for Windows 11. Also, the latest updateContinue Reading
Brave and Firefox are two of the most secure browsers out there. Brave has made privacy its key selling point, integrating features that block ads, prevent tracking, and stop fingerprinting. Firefox, on the other hand, is the OG secure browser, challenging Chrome’s dominance for as long as we can remember.Continue Reading
Microsoft recently increased the price of the Microsoft 365 subscription, justifying the change by adding more AI experiences to the service. Of course, that upset quite a few users, so Microsoft is now making a move in the opposite direction by letting Windows customers use Office apps for free. Users noticedContinue Reading
Google is always trying to improve its apps, but it rarely makes major changes to security features to avoid confusing users. One of Google’s most popular apps, Gmail, is going to change a crucial security feature in the coming months. In an interview with Forbes, Google confirmed plans to switch from SMSContinue Reading