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Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway
News Other than the addition of tabs, Windows' file Explorer hasn't felt meaningfully improved in a long time.
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'These reports are misleading': Google denies claims that Gmail is scraping your emails to train its AI
News Smart features are distinct from Google Gemini.
Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor Jennifer English has advice for AI pushers: 'Don't'
News "Mistakes are beautiful."
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Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player
News Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors.
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Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Opinion Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
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Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
News Hacking the planet with florid verse.
Nvidia reminds us it's not a gaming company anymore, but 'an AI data center infrastructure company'
News Doesn't have the same ring to it, somehow.
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Grok AI temporarily so sycophantic it claims Elon Musk is the best at drinking pee, and other things I'm not going to put in a headline, you can't make me
News Musk blamed the snafu on "adversarial prompting".
