A recent incident highlights the importance of using AI carefully and responsibly. The AI went Admin-mode and installed a bunch of updates that it could never reboot from.
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AMD has been making great strides in the CPU division ever since the advent of the first-gen Ryzen. However, it looks like the company launched its first dud in the form of the octa-core 5700.
Humane's futuristic wearable device called AI Pin gave wrong answers to some questions during its demo. The company acknowledged the issue and released an edited version of its promotional video.
It is yet another goof-up by Artificial Intelligence this time by Microsoft's. In a recently published travel guide for Canada, the AI recommended going to a food bank on an "empty stomach".
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Microsoft had warned about a kernel patch that could break something on the system. However, two months since, it has pushed that update enabling it by default via the latest Patch Tuesday.
AMD partner PowerColor has mistakenly leaked the images and specs of the RX 7800 XT. However, the leak suggests the upcoming Radeon card could end up being worse than its predecessor.
Last week, a report suggested that Nvidia's partners were finding it hard to get excited over the company's 16GB variant of the already heavily criticized 4060 Ti 8GB. We now understand why that was.
A customer ordered a new laptop from Amazon UK recently but was extremely surprised by how lightweight it was when they received the package. Turns out it had Weetabix inside it instead.
The OceanGate submarine taking five people to the Titanic that went missing underwater last weekend may have been using a decade old Logitech G F710 gaming controller with 3D printed thumbsticks.
The latest Edge update may be sending data for all the websites and domains you visit to the Bing API server website. The reports are currently being looked into by Microsoft itself.
Microsoft recently rolled out Patch Tuesday for this month. The company however has confirmed that WSUS servers based on Server 2022 failed to offer the update due to a botch. A workaround is out.
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Following more third-party testing regarding very high temperatures on AMD's RX 7900 XTX, the company has confirmed that it is indeed its cooler which seems to be behind the 110°C hotspots.
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Microsoft detailed another big performance boost to Teams, claiming faster switching, responsiveness, and latency improvements. However, some of the percentage gains appear to be somewhat misleading.
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Nvidia it seems has finally realized that naming different specced products with the same name is misleading to consumers. As such the company has announced that it is "unlaunching" its RTX 4080 12GB.
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Online benchmarking website UserBenchmark is known for hating on AMD, often openly bashing the company and its products. Rather ironically, the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7900X has managed to top its charts.
ICYMI, the U.S. CPSC has announced the formal recall of Asus ROG Z690 Maximus Hero motherboards. This boards had the potential to cause fire and burn hazard as it had a major manufacturer fault.
One of the leading anti-virus assessment companies, AV-TEST couldn't stop the breach of its own Twitter account. The attack happened over a week ago and the account still remains hacked.
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Windows 11 has several new security-related features. One of these features called Smart App Control that intelligently blocks suspicious apps and files blocked one of Microsoft's own files.
Testing has revealed that Alder Lake P Core i5 parts are outperforming the corresponding higher Core i7 CPU variants. For consumers looking to buy some, this makes choosing much harder.
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AMD may be developing a 2GB desktop card in the form of the Radeon RX 6300 based on the company's Navi 24 chip. If true, the card may potentially be even worse as a product than the 6500 XT itself.
The $599.99 Maximus Hero Z690 motherboards could be going up in flames due to a silly error from ASUS' manufacturing. Analysis shows that the board's capacitor is placed incorrectly, causing failure.
Amazon's Alexa proposed to a 10-year-old child to perform a dangerous "outlet challenge" from TikTok. Thankfully for the kid, its mother was close by and shared this incident on Twitter.
A report claims that fewer than half a million Chromebooks have been sold in the 21 months since they first went on sale, with "compatibility and consumer usage habits" highlighted as factors.
The week of August 7th, 2008 the amount of malicious spam a single computer user received finally overtook health and product spam. Meant to exploit holes in your operating system, get credit card information...
Microsoft Corp. directors failed to decide on the next step in the pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. yesterday, leaving open the debate over whether to walk away from the $44.6 billion bid or fight to replace...
Apple Inc. shares continued to take a pounding for a second straight day Wednesday, with investors and some industry analysts expressing disappointment with Apple's latest announcements at the annual Macworld Expo. Apple's stock cut its...
The US Government has given a failing grade today to a prototype device that Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Dell Inc. and other technology companies said would beam high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves. In...
All three of the anti-malware products submitted by Trend Micro for Virus Bulletin's independent tests failed because they produced false positives. Of the 20 products submitted for testing, six generated false positives when scanning a...
A federal judge in Texas has sanctioned the attorney of a defendant in one of the RIAA's countless file-sharing lawsuits after the attorney himself requested sanctions for the RIAA's counsel. Not long afterwards, the parties...
Is Microsoft Trying to Kill PC Gaming? When Microsoft started talking up Vista's gaming functionality, PC gamers got all hot and bothered. There it was, laid out in front of us, the holy land...
The first man to be arrested in China for virus-writing goes by the name of Li Jun, a 25 year-old man from Wuhan, who was arrested last month for allegedly selling copies of Panda. In...
While the U.S. courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT (File Allocation Table) patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany. According to a report in the German news publication...
Despite Microsoft's virtual concert launch party for Windows Vista in Second Life, according to a recent post on Second Life's official blog, some Vista users cannot reliably connect to the virtual world. Second Life...
Nvidia is scrambling to improve the low performance of its graphic-card drivers on Windows Vista. The maker of the GeForce graphic processors and related daughterboard products has received lots of flack from gamers who say...
Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security suite has failed a test to detect or stop 37 malicious programs on Windows Vista. Independent security certification body Virus Bulletin tested 15 security suites on Windows Vista against a...
A draft version of the 802.11n standard failed to pass a first ballot on May 2, leading existing 802.11n vendor Airgo to criticize existing "pre-802.11n" products that have already shipped. Although the 802.11n working group...
A near three-year-long attempt by Apple Computer to patent the menu-based software interface of its popular iPod digital music player has ultimately proved unsuccessful, AppleInsider has discovered. The company's patent application, which...
A problem has been identified in the MOM Administrator Console. After Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been upgraded to Service Pack 1, the Administrator Console may fail when the Computer Groups node is selected. This...
Nearly two months after promising to update its media player software to block the threat of malware infection, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday admitted that users of its Windows Media Player 9 Series remain at risk....
Microsoft's Gaming page has always been somewhat of a joke. Now it looks like Microsoft is getting their act together by updating this page, and by recognizing new & better gamming hardware. Last...
