Latest articles by James Bentley
'Preserving the web is not the problem. Losing it is,' claims the director of the Internet Archive
News "The Wayback Machine is built for human readers."
At a mere 2 square micrometers in size, this is the world's smallest QR code and it's 'smaller than most bacteria'
News You don't happen to have a microscopic phone camera yet, do you?
Dutch police have arrested a man for reportedly refusing to relinquish files they sent him: 'He would only comply if he received something in return'
News Note to self, don't download files from the police and refuse to send them back.
Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux
News Mozilla notes, "most browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have already ended support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1."
The 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' thought Excel becoming a popular esport was 'unlikely' before winning the grand prize in Las Vegas
News 'You can have a lot more fun with Excel than people realise.'
'The AI era is no longer a distant promise; it is a present reality,' Google declares in a report that also claims its AI principles are the 'north star standards'
News Google also promises to fix all the holes that have popped up in the AI ship as it's hurtled forward.
'As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important': Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams
News Corsair memory is getting even safer to buy—assuming you can actually afford it.
A radio host is suing Google for an AI-generated voice he claims sounds suspiciously like him: 'It’s this eerie moment where you feel like you’re listening to yourself'
News Google calls the allegations baseless.
'This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around,' says ex-Microsoft dev Dave Plummer about his synthwave-pounding AI dashboard
News In fairness, Plummer admits "it's a good thing I knew to stay in my lane, design-wise."
Lego Batman system requirements drop memory down to 16 GB, which I'm hoping becomes a trend now that memory is stuck up in the sky
News Though even 16 GB will cost you a pretty penny right now.
Today I learned Motorola was once developing a password pill that turns your body into an authentication token: 'We have demoed this working and authenticating a phone'
News This was part of Motorola's goal to 'fix' the "mechanical mismatch between humans and electronics."
Google has published a list of ways AI is currently being used by threat actors to more efficiently hack you
News Some of it is reportedly from 'government-backed' entities, too.
'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout
News This is alongside plans to enforce age restrictions and tackle 'harmful' infinite scroll designs.
Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'
News It's about time someone brought back the look.
A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago
News That's five of the 21 most popular games.
The latest Steam beta lets you give Valve your frame rate data, focusing on SteamOS devices to 'learn about game compatibility'
News Anything that improves SteamOS is a win in my book.
Steam reviews set to show a player's specs so it's easier to know if you'll share their experience or they misread the minimum
News Though that's only if users choose to add it.
MSI's $5,000+ Lightning Z RTX 5090 has seen real-world tests and hit a whopping 1076 W power draw in Cyberpunk 2077
News More power!
'Sick, bro, nice vape' is what I'd say to the people that turned a vape into a synth ocarina
News Whose joining the synth vape band? I've got ocarina.
Following Discord's suit, OpenAI will also predict your age based on your usage to know if it should ID you at the digital door
News How much does ChatGPT know about you?
'I do not have enough self-preservation. Send help': This streamer hacked her own balance to 'feel' racing games
News "I do not approve of anyone making this themselves. I don't condone that behaviour. It's incredibly dangerous and I'm not liable."
Someone has already made a free in-browser 3D model to bypass Discord age verification that 'works on any potato computer'
News That's one way to get around it.
Discord clarifies it 'is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID' and will 'confirm your age group using information we already have'
News That can only be good news, I assume?
