The laptop has two USB-C ports on the right side, seen here, and a USB-A port and headphone jack on the left. Surface Connect is gone. For those reasons, it seems like most individual buyers would still be better off going for the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop, with the new one only really making sense for…
Several downgrades, and one that’s hard to ignore The 12-inch Surface Pro. Credit: Microsoft The design looks pretty similar to the existing 13-inch Surface Pro overall but with some significant tweaks. The 12-inch Surface still supports the Slim Pen and other Surface styluses, but there’s now a magnet on the back of the tablet that…
OpenAI is reportedly acquiring Windsurf, an AI-powered coding assistant, for approximately $3 billion. The acquisition comes just months after Windsurf explored funding at this same valuation from investors, highlighting the premium being placed on specialized AI coding capabilities, reported Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal, which is yet to be closed, represents…
Remember those simple days of yore, when generative AI meant sending a question to an AI model and getting an answer in return? You might add in a vector database to provide some context for the question and some guardrails for safety and security. That sounded hard at the time, but in retrospect it was…
OpenAI has scrapped plans to reduce its nonprofit parent’s oversight and will keep its existing governance structure intact, a move that limits CEO Sam Altman’s influence and responds to mounting external pressure. “We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with…
The deluge of applications for every open job position has pretty much forced harried executives to turn to technology to help winnow out candidates worth interviewing. However, a new study has again confirmed what many applicants have observed: open source AI tools vetting resumés, like their non-AI resumé screening predecessors, are biased toward male candidates….
A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source AI image generation tool. Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening…
A messaging service used by former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has temporarily shut down while the company investigates an apparent hack. The messaging app is used to access and archive Signal messages, but is not made by Signal itself. 404 Media reported yesterday that a hacker stole data “from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company…
On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it will remain under the control of its founding nonprofit board, scrapping its controversial plan to split off its commercial operations as a for-profit company after mounting pressure from critics. In an official OpenAI blog post announcing the latest restructuring decision, CEO Sam Altman wrote: “We made the decision for…
The youths love it. Credit: Google The youths love it. Credit: Google All those studies allegedly revealed that people prefer Material 3 Expressive to the old version. However, that preference varies greatly with age. Zoomers apparently like Material 3 Expressive a lot, with over 80 percent of younger folks saying it was better than the…