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GPT-5 is coming: Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Azure are already making changes

News Software 08-01-2025 comment
More and more information about the new generation of the AI language model — GPT-5 is appearing online.

Expecting a million and getting $1000: Apple "modestly" thanked the developer who found a critical bug in iOS

News Software 08-01-2025 comment
Apple promises rewards of up to $2 million to those who find serious bugs. The developer was hoping to get rich, but received only $1000 for the critical vulnerability.

Vulnerable web coding: almost half of the code written by AI is potentially dangerous

News IT business 08-01-2025 comment
The study revealed a significant level of vulnerability in web coding products. With some programming languages, the result is much worse than average.

Goodbye, GeForce GTX 1060: NVIDIA ends support for Pascal and previous graphics cards

News Software 08-01-2025 comment
NVIDIA is discontinuing support for older graphics cards. Three architectures are being cut at once: Pascal, Maxwell, and Volta.

Amazon has invested in «Netflix with AI» — streaming, which allows viewers to generate their own series

News AI 07-31-2025 comment
Imagine if you could create your own ending for «Game of Thrones», or any other TV show or movie whose ending didn’t satisfy you? It might sound like science fiction if we didn’t live in the age of AI.

Windows 11 has improved integration with Android — PC control, file sharing, but still unreliable

News Software 07-30-2025 comment
Microsoft has updated the Link to Windows app for Android. It has become more convenient and functional. The beta version has a new design and a number of features that make it easier for your smartphone and computer to work together. Now you can lock your computer remotely from your phone, transfer files, and even view copied text or images from…

Is it possible to do this? In Microsoft Excel, pivot tables will automatically update

News Software 07-30-2025 comment
When something so obvious is available in competitors, even in other Microsoft programs and features, and Excel is only now getting it.

Get ready to blush: YouTube will determine the age of users based on their viewing history

News AI 07-30-2025 comment
Starting August 13, YouTube will use the age and activity of an account to determine whether it belongs to a minor. In this case, the age of the account is determined by the time that has passed since its creation, while the activity is obviously understood as the history of views.

Google AI Mode search gets smarter — support for PDF, images, and videos coming soon

News AI 07-30-2025 comment
Following the integration of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is expanding the functionality of AI Mode. Users will now receive four important updates, including video support in Search Live, a new Canvas feature, the ability to upload PDFs, and other additions.

Microsoft Edge becomes an AI browser — product comparison, tabbed help, and more in Copilot Mode

News AI 07-29-2025 comment
Microsoft has started testing a new experimental Copilot Mode in its Edge browser. This mode adds advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to the browser that not only respond to queries, but also help you manage open tabs, book restaurants, search for information by voice, and even organize your browsing into logical, themed «travel».

OpenAI boss: conversations with ChatGPT can be used as evidence in court

News Software 07-28-2025 comment
The OpenAI boss warns users to be careful what they ask in ChatGPT — the correspondence can be used against you in court.

«Ukrzaliznytsia» tests verification through «Diia» when buying tickets

News Software 07-25-2025 comment
«Ukrzaliznytsia» introduces verification through «Diia.Signature» to combat ticket overbuying for popular destinations. This is currently a test version.

What's new in iOS 26 beta 4: Apple Intelligence is back with caveats, changes to Liquid Glass

News Software 07-23-2025 comment
Apple has released the fourth beta version iOS 26 for developers. This update includes several design changes to Liquid Glass and brings back the AI-powered notification summary feature — after being temporarily suspended earlier this year.

Elon Musk wanted Grok developers to give the chatbot «their own faces» — leaked internal correspondence

News Software 07-23-2025 comment
Elon Musk once thought, why not force his employees to give their appearance to Grok AI? However, the scheme did not work with everyone.

Very expensive scales: the Apple MacBook app allows you to weigh items up to 3.5 kg on the touchpad

News Devices 07-22-2025 comment
Thanks to a free app, Apple Macbook touchpads can now weigh small objects.

Study: YouTube intentionally recommends funny videos to people who watch too much political content

News Software 07-21-2025 comment
Researchers from the University of Arkansas and the Center for Information Technology Innovation analyzed more than 685,000 YouTube videos to investigate how short video recommendations change depending on viewing time and content sensitivity.

Microsoft closes Movies & TV store on Xbox and PC

News Software 07-20-2025 comment
Microsoft no longer sells movies? The company suddenly closed Movies & TV app, available on Xbox and Windows PCs.

Elon Musk's Baby Grok: a children's version of the AI that scared adults

News Software 07-20-2025 comment
After stepping down from his work for the US government, billionaire Elon Musk has been focusing on his companies, including xAI. Recently, he has introduced the flagship model Grok 4 with the SuperGrok Heavy tariff for $300 per month. And now Musk has decided to create a children’s version of Grok. He wrote about it on his social network X.

DuckDuckGo allows you to hide AI-generated images in search

News Software 07-20-2025 comment
Recently, the Internet has been increasingly there is content created by artificial intelligence. It also appears in search engine results. It can lead to curiosities and irritation of userssearching for real photos, not AI-generated images. Based on user feedback, the DuckDuckGo search engine implemented a new feature — the ability to hide…

ChatGPT and no other model could pass the ZNO

News Software 07-18-2025 comment
Ukrainian researchers have created the first EIT test for AI and proved that even top models like ChatGPT would not be able to successfully graduate from school.

70% of Samsung Galaxy S25 owners use AI features — the company is preparing a major expansion

News Software 07-17-2025 comment
Samsung has taken the development of AI functions in the on their smartphones. She’s declaresThe company says that a huge percentage of its device users already use AI functions in one way or another. In the future, the company plans to significantly expand AI capabilities on Galaxy phones.

Massive fines in «Reserve+» for late data updates — even for those who have updated

News Software 07-17-2025 comment
In recent days, many people liable for military service have received a notification in the «Reserve+» app that they have been fined for late updating of their credentials. Last week, the Ministry of Defense just started rolling out a new version of the app, 1.7.1 with the function of paying fines online and with a 50% discount. However, the…

First NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression tests — up to 90% less video memory consumption, twice as fast rendering

News Software 07-17-2025 comment
An enthusiast tested NVIDIA’s Neural Texture Compression in combination with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing 1.2 — the result is fantastic.

Update «broke» Chrome on Windows and macOS — browser freezes or does not start

News Software 07-16-2025 comment
The latest Google Chrome update has caused problems for many users. The browser stops launching or freezes, and the situation seems to affect mostly Windows and macOS users.

Windows 11 will get adaptive power saving — laptop «will live» longer, but will work differently

News Software 07-15-2025 comment
Previously, energy saving in Windows 11 was quite simple. When the battery level dropped to a certain value (for example, 20%), the system turned on power saving. This caused a decrease in screen brightness, a decrease in processor frequency, disabling visual effects, and limiting background processes. All this was done in an attempt to squeeze the…

Twitter creator launches second app in a week — this one is built with AI and will make you «touch grass»

News Software 07-15-2025 comment
Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey impresses with his second app in a week. To test it, you will have to go outside.

Google is merging Android with ChromeOS — officially

News Software 07-15-2025 comment
Google has officially confirmed the long-discussed merger of its two operating systems — ChromeOS and Android. This is an important step for the company, which has long been looking for a way to make its ecosystem more holistic. Details are still scarce, but the direction of development has already been outlined.

«Safe» Bitchat messenger from the creator of Twitter has not passed any security checks

News Software 07-11-2025 comment
Twitter co-founder and Block head Jack Dorsey previously introduced «private» and «secure» Bitchat, which ironically turned out to be critically vulnerable.

Google launches Android Canary — a new program to access early OS features on Pixel

News Software 07-11-2025 comment
Google launched a new Android preview program that allows you to try out new features of the mobile OS even earlier. Thanks to the Canary program, Pixel smartphone owners will be able to test future features long before they are released to the public.

Adblock Plus users see worse ads than without it — research

News Software 07-10-2025 comment
Imagine: you install an ad blocker to avoid intrusive or harmful content, and you get… even more problematic ads. These digital billboards may inadvertently expose their users to more problematic content. Such conclusions were made by researchers from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. They analyzed how online…

The test of «clean» and «dirty» Windows 11 in games gave an unexpected result

News Software 07-08-2025 comment
It’s a common belief that a «clean» Windows 11 installation will run games better than a long-time user. We tested both in programs, tests, and games.

Threads catches up with X on smartphones — audiences are almost equal

News Software 07-08-2025 comment
The competition among social platforms is becoming increasingly fierce. And in this competition, Instagram Threads is catching up with X (formerly Twitter). According to analysts at Similarweb, the Threads mobile app (for iOS and Android) has come close to matching X’s results in terms of daily active users.

Telegram replacement from Twitter creator: Jack Dorsey presents BitChat — messenger without the Internet and censorship

News Software 07-07-2025 comment
Twitter creator and Block chairman Jack Dorsey has unveiled a beta version of BitChat, a messenger that works without the Internet via Bluetooth. Is this a challenge to Telegram?

«Demolish» Xbox and Copilot: Windows 11 25H2 will allow you to uninstall system programs

News Software 07-07-2025 comment
Microsoft seems to have heard the pleas of millions of users who have been complaining about unnecessary programs in Windows for years. With the Windows 11 25H2 update, the company has decided to clear some space. Now users will have an official way to get rid of built-in applications, often referred to as «bloatware» (software that is usually…

For the first time in 4 years, Windows 11 has outpaced Windows 10 — but not in Ukraine

News Software 07-07-2025 comment
Three months before its fourth anniversary, Windows 11 surpassed the previous version in market share for the first time. Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021.

TikTok to be split into two apps — with «US-only» version, launching September 5

News Software 07-07-2025 comment
China’s ByteDance is developing a separate app specifically for US users after long disputes and threats to restrict access to TikTok.

New menu «Start» Windows 11 sorts programs into a small file — without any AI

News Software 07-04-2025 comment
Microsoft is updating the «Start» menu in Windows 11. And this time it’s not about changing the design of icons or a hint of nostalgia, but a very specific function: automatic sorting of programs into categories. Does it sound like something complicated and technologically advanced? In fact, everything is much simpler than it seems. This…

Opera 120 gets its own AI translator for 40 languages and security improvements

News Software 07-03-2025 comment
Usually, updating a web browser is a routine thing that happens once every few weeks and goes almost unnoticed by the user. But sometimes there are releases that really deserve attention. This is exactly the case with Opera 120, the new version of the popular browser that is already available for download. The development team hasn’t just…

Dig this: Microsoft «resuscitated» Skype for Business because Teams failed

News Software 07-02-2025 comment
Although Microsoft recently retired SkypeIt’s too early to say that the messaging service is a thing of the past. Indeed, the classic Skype that worked through the cloud, gave way to Microsoft Teams. But it should not be confused with Skype for Business Server — the on-premises solution for companies that still does not have a full-fledged…

Microsoft denies losing 400 million Windows users and replaces bad blog post

News Software 07-02-2025 comment
Microsoft has responded to reports of the possible loss of 400 million Windows users. The company replaced the vague wording in the document that led to this conclusion.

Chinese students bypass AI detectors... with artificial intelligence — because they mark real texts as generated

News Software 07-01-2025 comment
It turns out that to prove that your text was not written by artificial intelligence — you just need to ask artificial intelligence for help.

Spotify is now on Instagram — you can listen to tracks in Stories without switching

News Software 07-01-2025 comment
Instagram and Spotify have taken a step towards millions of users who have been waiting for years for a simple but important feature — the ability to share their favorite songs on Instagram Stories with sound. Previously, when someone added a track from Spotify to a story, it was just a static image with the song title and the «Listen» button.…

Steam has learned to show how many frames in the game are real and how many are — generated

News Games 07-01-2025 comment
Steam has received an updated performance panel — it now shows not just the frame rate, but also how many of them were generated by third-party technologies.

«Reserve+» launched a beta test of payment of fines by the CCP — 50% discount

News Software 07-01-2025 comment
As well as promised earlier, the «Reserve+» app now has a function to pay fines. It is currently available in beta.

Windows, goodbye! The number of devices with Microsoft OS decreased by 400 million in 3 years

News Software 06-30-2025 comment
In operating systems, just like in cars or smartphones, competition never stops. And even giants like Microsoft are not immune to losses. New official statements from the company have given grounds to talk about a serious decline in the number of Windows users. All indications are that the number of Windows devices has decreased by hundreds of…

Windows 12 will wait — Microsoft announced Windows 11 25H2

News Software 06-30-2025 comment
Rumors about Windows 12 have been going since 2023but we’ll have to wait. Microsoft has officially said about the launch of Windows 11 25H2 for Windows Insider.

Claude the chatbot ran a «convenience store for a month» — lost $200, went crazy and went to a business meeting with the Simpsons

News Software 06-30-2025 comment
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 model ran a real food vending machine in their San Francisco office for a month. As a result, things got absurd — even the Simpsons were mentioned.

Facebook is trying to lure data for its AI from your gallery and unpublished photos

News Software 06-30-2025 comment
Facebook is testing a new feature that requires users to have access to your entire gallery and photos you haven’t posted yet — officially, to offer you versions «improved by AI»; and possibly to collect data to train its artificial intelligence models.

30 years old «blue screen of death» Windows is dead. Now BSOD will be black

News Software 06-27-2025 comment
The usual BSOD in Windows 11 is gone, but the abbreviation will remain, since blue and black start with the same letter. However, this is not Microsoft’s first attempt to kill the «death screen».

Bug in 600+ printer models of the same brand exposes default administrator passwords

News Devices 06-27-2025 comment
Researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in a series of popular printers that exposes administrator passwords by default. Worse, it cannot be fixed through the firmware of existing printers.

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