I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI models, and now it’s official. At Microsoft’s Build developer conference today, the company confirmed it’s expanding its Azure AI Foundry models list to include Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini from xAI. “These models will have
Read MoreNew submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting students’ voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams feature called ‘voice and face enrollment’ by default, which creates biometric profiles to enhance meeting experiences
Read MoreApple invited a select group of student influencers to its one-day “Apple University” experience, highlighting how its tools support education and content creation. Image Credit: Apple In March, Apple held an Apple student experience, nicknamed “Apple University,” for student influencers. The one-day, invite-only event was designed to help students better grasp how Apple’s products can
Read MoreGoogle’s annual I/O developer conference is almost here, and all eyes will be on the company’s opening keynote. But for the first time in years, we know there’s little reason to hope for major Android OS announcements, since Google already did that last week. Instead, we’re expecting I/O’s keynote to be (almost) all about AI,
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google and Samsung frequently top our lists of the best camera phones on the market, and I can understand why. A big reason for this is that they both have great camera apps, offering distinctive designs, mostly consistent image quality, and a variety of modes. However, after using recent
Read MoreMacworld Just when you think Apple’s long-running dispute with Epic Games is finally over, someone manages to find a way to spin it out even longer. There’s always time for one more lawsuit, one more appeal, one more acrimonious tweet. And if two multibillion-dollar corporations can’t find a way to resolve their differences amicably, what
Read MoreWhen the Pixel 8 was first announced, it was the most excited I’d been about a Google phone in quite some time. After a brief defection to the dark side (i.e., the iPhone 13), I was more than ready to come back into the Android fold. I was enticed by the more compact size, more
Read MoreFor more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for developers seeking answers to coding questions. At its peak in the mid-2010s, the site saw more than 200,000 new questions each month. Those days are gone. Since the arrival of AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Stack Overflow’s usage has fallen off a
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Read MoreFor more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for developers seeking answers to coding questions. At its peak in the mid-2010s, the site saw more than 200,000 new questions each month. Those days are gone. Since the arrival of AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Stack Overflow’s usage has fallen off a
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple is said to be working on allowing users to ditch Siri in favor of third-party digital assistants to comply with EU regulations. Users will soon be able to set alternatives like Gemini and ChatGPT as their digital assistants, instead of Siri. This freedom mimics Android’s long-standing openness, but
Read MoreEntrepreneur Linda Chander sheds some light on her start-up, which has developed a product to protect people from harmful UV rays. Read more: Sunire: Protecting skin cancer patients from further UV damage
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Some Nest Audio and Nest Mini users are seeing blue and purple colors on their devices instead of the usual white lights. The change marks the presence of Gemini and seems to be appearing for users enrolled in the Google Home Public Preview program with experimental AI features enabled.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Some Nest Audio and Nest Mini users are seeing blue and purple colors on their devices instead of the usual white lights. The change marks the presence of Gemini and seems to be appearing for users enrolled in the Google Home Public Preview program with experimental AI features enabled.
Read MoreTechCrunch reports: The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) increased the yield of the experiment, first to 5.2 megajoules and then again to 8.6 megajoules, according to
Read More[ProjectsInFlight] has been on a mission to make his own semiconductors for about a year now, and recently shared a major step toward that goal: homemade spin-on dopants. Doping semiconductors has traditionally been extremely expensive, requiring either ion-implantation equipment or specialized chemicals for thermal diffusion. [ProjectsInFlight] wanted to use thermal diffusion doping, but first had
Read MoreOpenAI CEO and Sam Altman believe Artificial General Intelligence could arrive within the next few years. But the speculations of some technologists “are getting ahead of reality,” writes the New York Times, adding that many scientists “say no one will reach AGI without a new idea — something beyond the powerful neural networks that merely
Read MoreOpenAI CEO and Sam Altman believe Artificial General Intelligence could arrive within the next few years. But the speculations of some technologists “are getting ahead of reality,” writes the New York Times, adding that many scientists “say no one will reach AGI without a new idea — something beyond the powerful neural networks that merely
Read MoreApple may have started late, and hit some speedbumps along the way, but Apple’s Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea, wants to beat Apple Intelligence into shape before handing over the reins to a successor. John Giannandrea is focusing on finally making Siri a more competitive AI engine. Giannandrea is
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Kotaku: One of the most striking things about Bungie’s Marathon is its presentation. The sci-fi extraction shooter combines bleak settings with bright colors in a way that makes it feel a bit like a sneaker promo meets Ghost in the Shell, or as designer Jeremy Skoog put it,
Read MoreApple’s executives are pushing for Siri to become a proper AI chatbot that scours the web, potentially as a direct competitor to ChatGPT. It’s just not clear when that’s going to happen. Apple’s leadership wants Siri to have ChatGPT-style smarts. As part of the Apple Intelligence shift, Apple said it would overhaul Siri to be
Read MoreWe love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded programming accessible to more people than anything else in the history of the field. One thing the Arduino ecosystem is rarely praised for is its speed. That’s where [Playduino] comes in, with his video (embedded below) that promises to make everyone’s favourite
Read MoreA new report from a reliable leaker suggests that the AirPods line will see IR cameras added next year, with an update to the AirPods Max waiting until 2027. Apple’s AirPods line could see some major new features in their next iterations. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has reiterated a June prediction that Apple’s AirPods line would
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Read MoreThe Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to “move the Internet’s security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code.” Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they’d begun work on rav1d, a safer high performance AV1 decoder written in Rust, according to a new update: We partnered with Immunant
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