‘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 withoutĀ 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 Chromeā€™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 ofĀ Googleā€™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
You can even create a personalized QR code for your group chats. InstagramĀ wants to be yourĀ hub for messaging,Ā aĀ priorityĀ made all the clearer on Wednesday when it launched fiveĀ new featuresĀ with the help of global superstars JENNIE and Doechii. Users can now translate messages in 99 different languages within their DMs. All youContinue Reading
Mozilla will continue to support older Windows operating systems for a few more months. Last September, Mozilla announced that it would extend support for Firefox on older Windows operating systems until March of this year. Now, the company has updated its release calendar, which now says that Firefox Old ESRContinue Reading
Windows 11’s KB5051987 update causes problems for File Explorer At a pivotal moment in time when Microsoft should be winning the hearts and minds of desktop PC users by presenting a stable and reliable platform inĀ Windows 11, the latestĀ 24H2 update (KB5051987)Ā has caused some users to face several major issues, includingContinue Reading
Elon Musk’s xAI has officially launched Grok 3, touted as “the smartest AI on Earth”, with a live stream showing its capabilities. The model is on par if not better when compared to leading AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking on certain benchmarks. The model was trainedContinue Reading