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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…
Recall is an upcoming AI feature of Windows 11. It takes captures of the screen every five seconds and saves them on the local system. Users may then interact with AI to look up information or process data that has been captured. Most current Windows 11 PCs won’t get Recall functionality, as a Copilot+ PC…
A lot has been written about the upcoming Recall feature of Windows 11 version 24H2. Reserved exclusively for Copilot+ PCs, it will be unavailable to the majority of users who upgrade their Windows 11 PCs to the new version. Recall, in a nutshell, takes frequent captures of the entire screen and stores them encrypted on…
Microsoft, Google, and other search engine companies have started to add AI to the search results. Google is rolling out AI Overviews to search. This feature displays AI generated content at the top of the results. This change has severe implications for the World Wide Web. In this article, I’m making four predictions about the…
DeepL Write Pro is a subscription-based AI writing assistant by DeepL, maker of the popular translation service. The target audience is organizations and professionals. DeepL Write has been available as a free service for some time. You can feed it text to get improvement suggestions. DeepL Write Pro takes the concept a step further. While…