Framework, the designers and sellers of the modular and repairable Framework Laptop 13 and other products, announced today that it would be “temporarily pausing US sales” on some of its laptop configurations as a result of new tariffs put on Taiwanese imports by the Trump administration. The affected models will be removed from Framework’s online…
We’re used to updating Windows, macOS, and Linux systems at least once a month (and usually more), but people with ancient DOS-based PCs still get to join in the fun every once in a while. Over the weekend, the team that maintains FreeDOS officially released version 1.4 of the operating system, containing a list of…
On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a surprise weekend move that caught some AI experts off guard. The announcement touted Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick as major advancements, with Meta claiming top performance in their categories and an enormous 10 million token context window for Scout. But…
Google started cramming AI features into search in 2024, but last month marked an escalation. With the release of AI Mode, Google previewed a future in which searching the web does not return a list of 10 blue links. Google says it’s getting positive feedback on AI Mode from users, so it’s forging ahead by…
The AI market could grow to as much as $4.8 trillion by 2033, according to a new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. At the same time, the money is expected to be concentrated among a few players and could increase inequality between countries, CNBC reports. “The benefits of AI-driven automation…
GTA 5 is coming back to Xbox Game Pass in April, and here’s the release date and the version you will be able to play. Table of Contents When is GTA 5 coming back to Xbox Game Pass? GTA 5 is coming back to Xbox Game Pass on April 15. If you haven’t purchased the…
And there are real concerns and annoyances that will come with Game-Key cards. Normally, the physical copy of a game is playable right out of the box—or, at most, after downloading patches that are a fraction of the size of the entire game. This saves time, and it saves internal storage space. That’ll be particularly…
It might be time for Apple-as-a-service as the company looks to plot a cunning course through the post-globalist freeze — and offering its products as a service could help it do just that. Apple had been expected to introduce just such a service. In fact, Mark Gurman recently said those plans were quite advanced, but the company shelved the idea, presumably…
When Google first launched the NotebookLM beta in late 2023, the company billed it as an experimental note-taking app with a generative AI assistant built in. You can still use it to create notes, but the app has evolved into something much more novel and powerful. Google now calls it “the ultimate tool for understanding…
Mesmerized by the scalability, efficiency and flexibility claims from generative AI (genAI) vendors, enterprise execs have been all but tripping over themselves trying to push the technology to its limits. The fear of flawed deliverables — based on a combination of hallucinations, imperfect training data and a model that can disregard query specifics and can ignore guardrails…