A Touch ID fingerprint reader is embedded in the power button; the headphone jack is gone; the iPad branding has been removed from the back; and there’s a USB-C port on the bottom (one benefit of upgrading for me—the old iPad Air was the last Lightning device in the house, give or take a Magic…
If you haven’t read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece, Catch-22, I highly recommend you do. The Catch-22 in the novel is this: “A combat pilot was crazy by definition (he would have to be crazy to fly combat missions) and since army regulations stipulated that insanity was justification for grounding, a pilot could avoid flight duty by simply asking, but…
Intel’s appointment of semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO marks a critical moment for the company and its enterprise customers. With rising competition from AMD, Arm-based chips, and RISC-V alternatives, Intel faces mounting pressure to defend its x86 dominance. While many enterprises still depend on Intel for data center workloads, AI acceleration, and PC deployments,…
A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality and discovered that the AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news content. Researchers Klaudia…
Ubisoft finally revealed all the details about Rainbow Six Siege X on March 13, 2025, and the devs are bringing a ton of new changes to the tactical first-person shooter. Siege X will mark a new era of the Rainbow Six franchise, with a new game mode, core gameplay updates, new modernised maps, an advanced…
In the past month and a half, the Trump Administration has drastically reduced the federal government workforce. The cuts alone have generated concern and anger among workers and those who rely on US government services. Adding to the angst: a new concern that government employees could be fired by an algorithm, as engineers modify a…
Google’s venerable 2015 Chromecast attempted to self-destruct earlier this week, upsetting a huge number of people who were still using the decade-old streaming dongles. Google was seemingly caught off guard by the devices glitching out all at the same time, but it promised to address the problem, and it has. Google says it has a…
Expired certificates have recently caused a lot of chaos, including for Chromecast users. With that in mind, Mozilla is now urging all Firefox users to immediately update the browser to the latest version. The reason: an older certificate expires on Friday, which means users who have not updated for a long time could be in…
OpenAI executives think the federal government should regulate artificial intelligence in the US, taking precedence over often more restrictive state regulations. In its contribution to a government consultation on AI regulation filed Thursday, the company also pointed to AI regulatory efforts in China as a threat to US developers — but then suggested that the…
Shrouded behind the mists of Apple Intelligence, one of the more thought-provoking implementations of artificial intelligence for real-world business use doesn’t come from Apple; it comes from webAI. The rise of webAI webAI is a crouching tiger, but not so hidden it didn’t get a mention when new Macs were introduced last week. The company’s AI-powered Companion…