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Amazon’s Luna game streaming service launches in the UK — how does it compare to its rivals?

A smattering of games are available to Prime subscribers, but big names require an additional subscription

Evening Standard

Microsoft launches collaboration platform Loop, its answer to Notion

Microsoft has launched a new platform built for collaboration to try and simplify how teams work on projects together. The new platform, Microsoft Loop, is currently in public preview and allows teams to organise everything they need for a project into one unified workspace, including documents, files, and tools. The…

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Windows, macOS, and Tesla exploits debuted at Pwn2Own hacking contest

Security researchers have successfully exploited zero-day vulnerabilities found in macOS, Windows, and Tesla software at the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own conference. Day one of the 2023 competition, hosted in Vancouver, saw 12 unique zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in Microsoft SharePoint, Windows 11, Adobe Reader, Oracle VirtualBox, Tesla Gateway, and macOS. SEE…

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Gmail is getting an AI-powered writing assistant on Android, and I’m furious

Gmail’s upcoming ‘Help me write’ feature is clever, but it’s liable to cause more problems than it really solves.

TechRadar

ChatGPT privacy flaw exposes users’ chatbot interactions

OpenAI has revealed a privacy flaw in its popular chatbot ChatGPT temporarily allowed users to see the conversation titles of other users in their chat history. Users on Reddit and Twitter started reporting the bug on 20 March and shared screenshots indicating that their ChatGPT web history contained titles they…

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Windows 11 preview provides a glimpse of some big changes to the desktop

File Explorer is getting a full redesign and a bunch of additions, including a recommended files section.

TechRadar

Why is big tech racing to partner with Nvidia for AI?

Nvidia has announced a series of big tech partnerships this week, including collaborations with AWS and Adobe to provide cloud infrastructure and hardware for training proprietary AI models. AWS will work with Nvidia to build scalable infrastructure with the express purpose of training large language models (LLMs) for use in…

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Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’

The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok

The Guardian - UK

Here are the things generative AI can do well today

Right now, the hot new field is at its best when handling creative tasks where there's no "right answer."

Axios

How to move the Windows 11 taskbar

Microsoft locked the Windows 11 taskbar in one spot. Want to break it free? We'll show you how.

Laptop

Windows screenshot flaw could expose cropped info — how to protect your PC

A flaw in the Windows 11 Snipping tool and the Snip and Sketch tool in Windows 10 could prove disastrous for users that are cropping confidential data out of their screenshots.

Laptop

Bay Area tech and biotech layoffs worsen, Microsoft slashes more jobs

Tech and biotech layoffs have worsened in the Bay Area, a fresh round of cutbacks resulting from job cuts at tech titan Microsoft and genetic testing firm Natera, according to official state government filings.

Tribune News Service

A.I. means everyone gets a 'white-collar' personal assistant, Bill Gates says

A.I. in the workplace could make life a lot easier for many employees, but growing pains may be inevitable.

Fortune

Confirmed: Microsoft killed the PlayStation version of Redfall for Xbox exclusivity (Update)

Arkane's upcoming vampiric shooter Redfall was originally slated for PlayStation, confirmed by the studio.

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Windows 11 will finally show seconds on its clock

Microsoft just shipped a new Windows 11 build to Insiders in the Dev Channel. The update adds a new page in the Settings app for USB4 devices and the ability to show seconds on the clock in the system tray.

TechRadar

How to sign up for Google Bard and try the ChatGPT alternative for yourself

Here's how to sign up for Google Bard and use Google's new AI chatbot that it's made as a ChatGPT and Bing Chat alternative.

TechRadar

Nvidia is giving your business the chance to use the cloud tech used to develop ChatGPT

Advanced model training can now be done without the need to acquire expensive on-prem hardware.

Fortune

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the Bard chatbot would make mistakes. It called Google a monopoly and asked for the government to break it up

Alphabet's Sundar Pichai warned "things would go wrong" with Bard when it opened to the public. The chatbot then opposed Google in an antitrust lawsuit.

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Is Sony asking for PlayStation VR support as a concession in the Xbox-Activision deal?

A footnote in the most recent regulatory filings with the UK CMA may hint at Sony's ideal outcome for the big Microsoft Xbox-Activision merger.

Tom’s Guide

Bing now features an AI image generator — here's how to use it

Here's how to use the new Bing AI Image generator, which leverages DALL-E technology.

Windows Central

Microsoft Loop brings together all of Microsoft 365 into shared workspaces, and it's available in preview

Microsoft Loop is now available in preview. The service brings together Microsoft 365 content into workspaces and projects that be shared easily.

Irish Mirror

Dozens injured after huge ship owned by billionaire tips over at Edinburgh's Imperial Dock

Emergency services responded to a call on Wednesday morning and are dealing with multiple casualties, while an air ambulance has been spotted at the scene.

Tribune News Service

Microsoft’s GitHub to add OpenAI chat functions to coding tool

Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI’s language-generation tools — an app called Copilot that helped software developers write computer code. Now GitHub is adding a chat and voice feature that will let programmers ask how to accomplish certain coding tasks.

GamesRadar

Redfall PS5 version was in development, but cancelled after the Xbox buyout

"We were acquired by Microsoft and it was change with a capital C"

TechRadar

I asked Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT to solve my anger issues, and the results surprised me

In my hour of need, I turned to AI chatbots, not for help - but for levity. Their responses gave me mixed feelings about what comes next for AI.

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