Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but it was easy to miss in the platform’s sea of red alerts. OK, so what’s different? “Any devices you’ve frequently used Facebook on in the past two years will be …
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Despite plenty of misgivings, artificial intelligence—and in particular, generative AI that produces text and images from prompts—continues to be pushed into the hardware and software we use every day. Microsoft has been active in the space, adding AI chatbot capabilities to its Bing search engine earlier this year, and it's …
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October has been a security flaw-fest, with Apple, Microsoft, and Google issuing patches for vulnerabilities that are being used in real-life attacks. There were also multiple enterprise fixes during the month, with Cisco, VMWare, and Citrix fixing serious security bugs. Some of the patches are more urgent than others, so …
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When I worked as a copywriter at a dog-toy-slash-tech company, we used Airtable and Basecamp to organize our workflows. At my next job, the marketers made us learn Asana (“same as Airtable but much better”), but the product team pushed their work and sprints through Jira. I was laid off …
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OpenAI recently announced an upgrade to ChatGPT (Apple, Android) that adds two features: AI voice options to hear the chatbot responding to your prompts, and image analysis capabilities. The image function is similar to what’s already available for free with Google’s Bard chatbot. Even after hours of testing the limits …
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Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion. Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its …
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PCs, for a long time, had a bloatware problem. The major PC manufacturers—Dell, Asus, Acer, and the like—had a bad habit of including "free trials" of software like Norton AntiVirus on new devices. The software companies paid to be included. This got so bad in the late 2000s that many …
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Software engineers have joined the ranks of copy editors, translators, and others who fear that they’re about to be replaced by generative AI. But it might be surprising to learn that coders have been under threat before. New technologies have long promised to “disrupt” engineering, and these innovations have always …
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NameDrop, StandBy, Contact Poster. These aren't rad band names, but rather some of the top new features available with iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. Apple's latest mobile operating systems come jam-packed with useful new capabilities—all of which we break down below. We've also included instructions on how to download the …
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macOS Sonoma is Apple's latest desktop OS. It brings a variety of new capabilities, including interactive widgets, new video conferencing tools, enhancements to Safari, and more. Here, we break down the top features, whether your machine is supported, and how to download the new software. Updated April 2024: We added …
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