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Microsoft has extended free Windows 10 updates for another year
6+ hour, 11+ min ago (203+ words) " " " "! Microsoft unexpectedly and without any major announcements extended Windows 10 extended support for another year " until October 2027. They will be available to all users who use a Microsoft account. Previously, the company's website stated that the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program…...
AMD has acquired a start-up that converts SSDs into virtual RAM to reduce the cost of systems
6+ hour, 41+ min ago (294+ words) Mezha AMD has acquired a start-up that converts SSDs into virtual RAM to reduce the cost of systems AMD has acquired the start-up MEXT, which is regarded as a pioneer in AI-based memory optimisation. It offers multi-level allocation technology that…...
Notion is shutting down its AI-powered email client
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (130+ words) " " " "! Notion has announced the closure of its email service Notion Mail, which will cease operations on September 22. Instead, the company will focus on developing its artificial intelligence agents, writes Tech Crunch. The company also announced that templates and instructions for…...
A study in *Nature* has cast doubt on Microsoft's quantum breakthrough with Majorana
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (487+ words) " " " "! A peer-reviewed scientific article, published in the journal Nature, has cast doubt on one of Microsoft's most high-profile claims in the field of quantum computing. The author of the paper claims that the company has not provided convincing evidence of…...
Bill Gates, Anthropic and Open AI have joined a $500 million fund to combat respiratory viruses
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (302+ words) " " " "! Stripe, a company that develops payment processing software, is to fund a new non-profit organisation, valued at $500 million, which will focus on preventing colds and flu. Its ultimate goal is to eradicate respiratory viruses completely. This is reported by MIT…...
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are working on a new user verification system that does not use CAPTCHA
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (361+ words) " " " "! Cloudflare, together with the developers of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, has announced the creation of a new standard called Private Access Control Tokens (PACT). Its aim is to help websites distinguish between legitimate visitors and authorised bots…...
China's Alibaba used 25, 000 fake accounts to gain 'unauthorised' access to Claude " Anthropic
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (406+ words) " " " "! Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant Alibaba of a large-scale effort to gain "unauthorised" access to its Claude AI models using thousands of fake accounts. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing a statement from the start-up sent to several US…...
Most of Musk's AI traffic comes from adult content " report
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (152+ words) " " " "! Over 50% of the total traffic on the Grok chatbot, developed by Elon Musk's company x AI, consists of pornographic images and videos, erotic role-play chats and other adult content. This is reports Forbes, citing a'report by The Information, which interviewed…...
Fewer errors and a better understanding of queries: Open AI updates the standard Chat GPT model
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (329+ words) " " " "! Open AI has updated GPT-5. 5 Instant, the default model for free Chat GPT users. The company says the update improves the model's understanding of conversation context, more accurately determines user intent, and more effectively responds to clarifications and new conditions…...
NVIDIA promises to phase out water cooling almost entirely in AI data centres
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (332+ words) " " " "! NVIDIA has announced that its reference data centre design for the upcoming Rubin platform will enable the near-total elimination of water use for server cooling. The company claims that the switch to fully liquid cooling and operating the equipment at…...