Working hard — or hardly working? Mansi Singhal, a 24-year-old software engineer, has gone viral several times over after she revealed what a day in her life at a Microsoft office — where she works in Hyderabad, India — looks like in an Instagram reel. Between a 45-minute breakfast break, a dessert run and a … Read more
Bill Gates’ youngest daughter Phoebe is shaping up to be a mogul in her own right. The 22-year-old Stanford grad launched a new podcast on Tuesday, on which she teased the launch of her forthcoming “sustainable” shopping website, Phia. The podcast, titled The Burnouts, is hosted by Phoebe and her business partner, Sophia Kianni. During … Read more
A cancer patient says surgery to remove a four-centimeter mass from her brain was cancelled this week — due to the worldwide IT glitch. Chantelle Mooney, 41, was due to have a craniotomy on Friday 19 July — but says the surgery was cancelled due to the worldwide IT outage. Chantelle was diagnosed with stage … Read more
This airline literally wrote its own ticket. A passenger in India was flabbergasted after receiving a hand-scrawled boarding pass amid the Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage affecting computer systems across the globe. An X post detailing the scribbled ticket incident garnered over 5 million views as of Friday morning. “I got my first hand-written boarding pass today,” exclaimed … Read more
Experts are speechless. Researchers at Microsoft have developed an artificially intelligent text-to-speech program at a human level of believability. It is so realistic that creators are keeping the high-tech interface “purely a research project” and will not yet allow it to be used by the public. Microsoft has unveiled a new text to speech tool … Read more
A new and sophisticated malware that impersonates Google Chrome and Microsoft has the potential to steal money from Microsoft device owners, cyber experts warn. Since March, online protection firm Proofpoint has flagged an ongoing nefarious campaign, seeing “cybercriminal threat actors adopting new, varied, and increasingly creative attack chains.” This month, Proofpoint identified a larger distribution … Read more
Apple plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year that will more deeply integrate financing, rewards, and buy now, pay later options into the iPhone. The new features are part of Apple’s annual iOS update that will arrive in the fall, the company said. Apple revealed some of … Read more
Maybe Microsoft Recall should get a recall. The computer giant’s new artificial intelligence program is causing worry among cyber experts as it takes screenshots of a user’s activity every five seconds. “This could be a privacy nightmare,” Dr. Kris Shrishak, an AI and privacy adviser, warned the British Broadcasting Company. “The mere fact that screenshots … Read more
PowerPoints are all the rager. Gen Z’s idea of “work-life balance” was stifled during the COVID-19 lockdown — and now their parties even feature PowerPoint presentations. A PowerPoint party is pretty self-explanatory: People get together and show each other PP presentations on a topic of their choosing for “fun.” The, um, point is for friends … Read more
Mona Lisa is brushing up on her rap skills. Microsoft put out an artificial intelligence-generated video of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa rapping, and viewers have strong opinions. The tech giant revealed its new AI technology called VASA-1 which can take a still image and an audio clip and combine them to generate lifelike videos … Read more
It was quite a dilemma. Kelly Rowland is finally dishing on the “flack” she’s received after trying to send Nelly a text message via Microsoft Excel in the 2002 music video for “Dilemma.” “Do you know how much flack I get from that?” Rowland, 43, said during an appearance on Mystical Kitchen’s “Last Meal” series after being … Read more
An elderly widow from Arizona feels “devastated” after losing her entire life savings of $25,000 to telephone scammers last month. Susan Guthrie, 76, was conned by fraudsters who posed as Microsoft employees and talked her into depositing the money into their account, SWNS reports. They convinced her that her computer had been hacked and unless … Read more
Feb 16 — Video game maker Activision Blizzard has been hit with a U.S. lawsuit claiming it restricts competition for organized gaming involving its flagship franchise “Call of Duty.” Professional gamers Hector Rodriguez and Seth Abner said in an antitrust lawsuit, opens new tab filed in Los Angeles federal court on Thursday that Activision is unlawfully monopolizing … Read more
ChatGPT is no BFF. An Oxford University computer science professor has sounded the alarm on why it’s an awful idea to confide personal information and deep, dark secrets with language learning models such as ChatGPT. “The technology is basically designed to try to tell you what you want to hear – that’s literally all it’s … Read more
ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time … Read more
The popular new artificial intelligence service ChatGPT refused to write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of the New York Post — but gladly spit out a CNN-like puff piece protective of the president’s embattled son. It is the most recent example of the futuristic AI’s liberal bias, which seems to have been … Read more
Modern Xbox consoles will soon have a new default setting that regulates the video game systems’ power usage to protect the environment. “Xbox is working to reduce our environmental impact to help us reach Microsoft’s goal of being a carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste company by 2030 by rethinking how we design, build, distribute, … Read more