Screenshot by Destructoid | Published: Apr 9, 2025 09:38 am In Path of Exile 2, reaching The Molten Vault can be a bit tricky due to the sheer size of the area leading up to it. The real challenge lies in locating it, but there are a few tips that can make your journey a…
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, revealing how the company’s AI model, Llama, played a critical role in accelerating China’s AI capabilities — particularly contributing to the rise of DeepSeek. Actively endorsed by Chinese officials, DeepSeek has emerged as a formidable rival to OpenAI,…
Google’s new on-demand generative AI (genAI) analyst for spreadsheets stood out among a slew of new AI features for its Workplace productivity suite announced at this week’s Cloud Next event in Las Vegas. The upcoming “help me analyze” feature in the Google Sheets application in Workspace can take information from tables and provide instant data analysis and insights. It does…
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden have launched a formal inquiry into partnerships between tech giants Google and Microsoft, and AI startups, demanding detailed information about arrangements they fear may be circumventing antitrust scrutiny while consolidating power in the rapidly evolving AI market. In identical letters sent to Google and Anthropic, as well as…
The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it comes to professional productivity. Sure, it’s convenient — it’s better than clicking your way through the entire menu to find what you need. But more often than not, it mostly just gets in your way. In fact, Microsoft’s Start menu outright disrespects you by…
Fair warning: This column is a fair bit different from the type of thinking we typically take on in these musty virtual quarters of ours. More often than not, when we talk about Android apps, we’re talkin’ about some manner of intriguing new possibility that’s worth your while to try — be it a series…
A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly structured and mostly efficient organization staffed by personnel with expertise in various specialities, including exploit development, infrastructure optimization, social engineering, and more. The trove of records was first posted to file-sharing site MEGA. The messages,…
On Monday, John Carmack, co-creator of id Software’s Quake franchise, defended Microsoft’s recent AI-generated Quake II demo against criticism from a fan about the technology’s impact on industry jobs, calling it “impressive research work.” Last Friday, Microsoft released a new playable tech demo of a generative AI game engine called WHAMM (World and Human Action…
The American workforce is undergoing a shift, with major companies like Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Tesla enforcing return-to-office (RTO) mandates, leading to fewer remote work opportunities for employees. Despite the back to workplace push, a survey of 1,000 US workers in January found strong resistance to full-time office returns. In the last…
common stock, dampening IT department hopes that it might invest in innovation or make its products more affordable. Looking at the announcement of Broadcomm’s buyback plan, Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said this is consistent with Broadcom’s historic strategy and holds no good news for enterprise IT leaders. “They shouldn’t expect any relief…