Legislation that could lead to a national ban of TikTok cleared the Senate Tuesday night in a bipartisan vote of 79-18, representing one of the most serious threats to the immensely popular social media app’s U.S. operations.  Some lawmakers insist they don’t want to actually ban the platform used by roughly 170Continue Reading

Microsoft has introduced the next iteration of its lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model, called Phi-3. The updated family includes the 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-3 Mini, the 7-billion-parameter Phi-3 Small, and the 14-billion-parameter Phi-3 Medium. This release comes after the Phi-2 model, introduced in December 2023, was surpassed in performance by models such as Meta’s Llama-3Continue Reading

Nearly three decades after its launch, WordPad is leaving Windows. WordPad, the rich text editor shipped with Windows 95, will soon be removed from Windows 11. Microsoft announced last year that WordPad will be removed, but we now have a concrete timeframe: In a support article, Microsoft says that WordPad will beContinue Reading

In a startling development in Nigeria’s ongoing tax evasion case involving Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, a high-ranking executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, has reportedly escaped detention using a fake passport. The revelation adds a dramatic twist to the unfolding legal saga surrounding Binance’s operations in the country. Binance exec escape Anjarwalla, along with his colleagues, wasContinue Reading