Items tagged with Windows
OpenAI is finally releasing a ChatGPT app for Windows, after making it available on macOS earlier this year. The company posted an announcement on the social media platform X, where it says that it’s now available to download from the Microsoft store for “ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, Team, and Edu users.” Free users will...
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Look, before we even get into the meat of what the problems were, if you're on Windows, make sure you've got the latest updates. Yesterday's "Patch Tuesday" brought with it fixes for nearly 80 different security bugs across just about every single Microsoft product, but the real worry has to do with a zero-day bug...
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Google wants to make accessing its services as easy as possible for Windows users with Google Essentials. The company says it’s “a new app that makes it easier for you to discover and install many of our best Google services — including Google Play Games — when setting up a new PC.”
Google Essentials will make its...
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Microsoft’s latest set of updates delivered during patch Tuesday is causing headaches for users who are dual booting Linux alongside Windows. One of the updates issued was supposed to address a vulnerability found in the GRUB2 boot loader used by several versions of Linux, which could allow attackers to bypass secure...
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This one's important, so let's get right to it: a new security flaw in all versions of Windows opens the door for a wormable remote code execution vulnerability. That means it can be exploited by an automated worm with zero user interaction required, and it gives the remote attacker the ability to execute code on the...
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Google has issued an apology after passwords disappeared for millions of Windows users. The company reported a significant number of users were unable to find or save passwords in the password manager for Google Chrome for 17 hours and 51 minutes.
For nearly 18 hours, Chrome users around the world found themselves...
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CrowdStrike, along with Microsoft, ruined many a weekend plan recently when an update to the former's security suite crashed millions of computers around the world. The outage has crippled airports, hospitals, and more. Naturally, IT pros are less than happy with this situation, but CrowdStrike hoped it could smooth...
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Arm’s CEO, Rene Haas, is bullish that chips based on the company’s designs will make waves in the PC market that is currently almost exclusively the domain of Intel and AMD. While chips using Arm’s designs have been a wild success in the mobile device nad IoT spaces, it hasn’t managed to make any significant inroads...
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Qualcomm is going all out for its Snapdragon X chips by releasing a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows alongside bringing the Qualcomm AI Hub to computers sporting the new processor. The company is hoping that with these two moves it can win over software makers with these two new additions to its ecosystem. It’s an...
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Working subtle advertisements into products seems to be the way of the future, with platforms like Discord testing the ad waters now as well. However, Microsoft has been well ahead of the curve and has been toying with the idea for quite some time for some of its software products. Now, the Redmond-based company is...
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Qualcomm and Google are giving people another reason to start embracing ARM-compatible PCs with an optimized Chrome browser. The new Chrome browser is just one aspect of Qualcomm’s initiative to make upcoming Snapdragon X Elite powered PCs more desirable to consumers.
While Windows on ARM has made significant...
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Elon Musk, of SpaceX, brain-computer interface, and Tesla fame, is struggling with a fresh Windows 11 install on a new laptop per recent postings on X, formerly Twitter. Musk is getting swiftly ratio’d by nerds on his social media platform using the community notes feature, however, explaining that he is wrong about...
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As we prepare to roll into an early Spring, if a ground-dwelling rodent is anything to go by, you might be looking to do some Spring cleaning, especially with your technology. At least for Windows 10 and 11 users, Microsoft has a solution that can help boost your PC’s performance, though this could prove to be...
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Microsoft has just set new performance targets for PCs to be considered AI-ready. The trillion-dollar software, services and devices company has specified 40 TOPS (Trillions Of Operations Per Second) in AI computational throughput and 16GB of memory at a minimum, for a system to potentially have all AI features...
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Windows has had some recent security issues, but Microsoft has gnerally been good about offering critical fixes. A problem comes when people don't actually apply those fixes to make their systems more secure. As such, TrendMicro has discovered a previously-patched vulnerability being exploited on Windows devices to...
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Just the other day, Windows released Insider Preview Build 26020 to kick off the new year with a handful of new features and capabilities. However, this update also took away some features with the official execution of WordPad, which will no longer be installable in a clean install of the OS. Moreover, in a future...
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Microsoft is keying in on ways to integrate its AI Copilot, and it starts with a physical key on upcoming PC keyboards. It will be the first major change to the Windows keyboard since 1994 when the Windows key was added.
It is no secret that big tech companies are frantically searching for ways to get users to...
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With Christmas behind us, you might have found yourself in possession of a new laptop or desktop that you need to set up and tweak. Whether you are looking to game or trying to get work done, there are several optimizations and changes that you can do to make your life better when it comes to working with your shiny...
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User reports have unveiled gaming performance degradation problems in Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 23H2 update. The problem is reportedly related to a Windows Defender bug that is choking or blocking off system resources, causing gaming performance to slow. Thankfully Microsoft has provided a fix for the problem, but...
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After numberous printing related bugs this year, you'd think Microsoft would be particuarly cautious and do some additional Q&A on its latest printing-related patches, but that doesn't appear to be the case. A newly discovered bug affecting Windows 10 and 11 seems to be renaming all printers on a system “HP...
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In case you weren't aware, VMware operates a security arm called Carbon Black. On Halloween, Carbon Black's Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) announced that it had found 34 different vulnerable Windows drivers that had firmware access. To be clear, that's 34 unique filenames; the actual number of different driver files is...
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AI chatbots and assistants are being integrated into nearly every software product and services at a blistering pace. Take, for example, Windows, which has recently been infused with Bing Chat AI via a feature called “Copilot.” While this feature might be cool for some, others may not want an AI bot lurking in the...
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