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The initial announcement of the AI feature Recall is a great example of shooting yourself in the foot. When Microsoft announced Recall, it floated on a wave of positive and encouraging AI news and developments. Recall was never tested in Insider builds prior to the announcement, at least to my knowledge. While the reason for…
If you use X, you may have heard about the AI Grok already. Currently, xAI and Grok are playing catch-up with the current AI allstars. Plans are to push Grok to first place by the end of the year. Whether that is going to happen or not remains to be seen. What is clear is…
In some years from today, search engines will likely look completely different. The traditional way of showing links to websites that match the search query best, at lest according to the search engine that you are using, is being phased-out. The replacement comes in form of AI generations. AI takes the user’s query, generates a…
Opera Software has released a preview version of its upcoming updated Opera One browser. Called Opera One R2, it comes with new and improved functionality. Where to download: you can download Opera One R2 Preview from this page on Opera’s website. Note: if you install the browser on Windows, you may get a SmartScreen security…
European Facebook and Instagram users may breathe a sigh of relief, as their public data won’t be used by Meta for AI training for the time being. Meta published an update regarding the use of data from European users on Facebook. Here are the highlights: The decision does not change the handling of data from…
A team of security researchers at the University of Illinois published a study back in April 2024 that demonstrated the hacking capabilities of AI. Using OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, they discovered that exploit code could be generated for 87% of the tested 0-day vulnerabilities. This figure dropped to 7% if the CVE description was not provided….
When Microsoft announced the AI feature Recall in May, it felt confidence in its AI strategy. Recall, a feature that takes snapshots of the PC screen every five seconds, was designed to be the selling point for a new breed of PCs, that Microsoft calls Copilot+ PCs. A lot depended on Recall. It was the…
DuckDuckGo has launched AI Chat officially. The feature promises anonymous interactions with several AIs, including GPT 3.5 , Claude 3, or Llama 3. DuckDuckGo claims that access is free and that all chats are private. The company says that it is anonymizing interactions with the AI models. Furthermore, interactions are not used “for any AI…
TotalRecall is a new open source tool for Windows that can be used to run searches across the entire Recall database. Recall is a new feature of Windows 11 that takes snapshots of the screen every five seconds. It stores them locally and makes them available for processing by the user. Recall is enabled by…
Microsoft has identified another service that its AI Copilot has not been available on. Today, Microsoft launched Copilot officially for the messaging service Telegram. Word of warning: while you do not need a Microsoft account to communicate with the AI, it is necessary to part with your mobile phone number for verification purposes. Here is…