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Google Search has been the major search engine in most regions for a long time. While it has changed a lot under the hood in that time, it is still used by many as the main tool for searches. AI is threatening Google’s search dominance. While it is too early to tell how good AI-based…
One of the first things that I disable on Windows 11 PCs is the integrated web search. Microsoft merged local and web search in Windows some years ago mostly for its own benefit. Web search results generate clicks and revenue for Microsoft. For users, they serve little purpose. Often, they tend to get in the…
Microsoft introduced the new dedicated Copilot-key for Windows keyboards less than a year ago. Now, the company suggests to remap the key to another function, but only on managed PCs. Here is a quick refresher: Microsoft announced the Copilot key in January to “kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs”. The company even went…
Remember suggested actions? Microsoft introduced the feature in mid-2022 in Insider builds of Windows 11 and rolled it out to stable systems later on. The core idea behind the feature was simple: highlight certain text in Windows and the operating system suggests actions based on the highlighted string. Highlight a phone number and you get…
Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track feature from Firefox. The idea behind it was simple: inform websites that the user of the browser does not want to be tracked. What looked good on paper did not work well in the real world. Many sites ignored the header, which made it ineffective as a…
Copilot Vision is an experimental AI-feature that, Microsoft promises, is going to revolutionize the online life of computer users. Microsoft says that Copilot Vision sees the pages that users are on, reads the content of the pages, and is there for users when they have questions about current or past content, or want to have…
Micro-patching service 0Patch have disclosed a new 0-day vulnerability that affects all recent client and server versions of the Windows operating system. A successful exploit gives the attacker access to a user’s credentials. All that is required for that is that the user opens a folder on Windows that contains a malicious file. 0Patch releases…
Windows System Control Center is a free program for personal use on Windows that you may use to explore, download, and use hundreds of the best free apps for the operating system. The app brings together programs by popular developers such as Nirsoft, SysInternals, MiTeC, and others. It is available as a portable application, but…
Is it an experiment, rolling out to everyone, or a bug? Reports are coming in that users are starting to see ads in the Microsoft 365 application for Android when they open PDF documents in the app. The ad shows up at the top of the screen underneath the title of the document. It features…
Linux users who download Firefox from Mozilla to install the browser on their device will experience quicker downloads and installs going forward. Mozilla explained on its Nightly website that it switched the packaging to .tar.xz from the previously used .tar.bz2 format. The change has the following benefits: A 25 percent reduction in file size reduces…