Will the future of software development run on vibes?
3/6/2025 5:05 PM
Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity. To many people, coding is about precision. It’s about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those actions exactly, precisely, and repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s now possible for someone to describe a program […]
Read MoreYou knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results
3/6/2025 5:05 PM
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning “to find things on the Internet.” Soon, Google might just tell you what’s on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more […]
Read MoreYes, we are about to be treated to a second lunar landing in a week
3/6/2025 5:05 PM
Because the space agency now has some expectation that Intuitive Machines will be fully successful with its second landing attempt, it has put some valuable experiments on board. Principal among them is the PRIME-1 experiment, which has an ice drill to sample any ice that lies below the surface. Drill, baby, drill. The Athena lander […]
Read MoreBrother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink
3/6/2025 5:05 PM
Skip to content 3-year-old Reddit post sparks uproar Brother: Updates aren’t behind degradation of quality or removal of features. A Brother MFCL3750CDW laser printer. Credit: Brother Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if […]
Read MoreAMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD’s problems
3/6/2025 5:05 PM
Skip to content For $549 and $599, AMD comes close to knocking out Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070. AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT are its first cards based on the RDNA 4 GPU architecture. Credit: Andrew Cunningham AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT are its first cards based on the RDNA 4 GPU […]
Read MoreCopilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
2/28/2025 8:46 PM
Screenshot showing Copilot continues to serve tools Microsoft took action to have removed from GitHub. Credit: Lasso Lasso ultimately determined that Microsoft’s fix involved cutting off access to a special Bing user interface, once available at cc.bingj.com, to the public. The fix, however, didn’t appear to clear the private pages from the cache itself. As […]
Read MoreMicrosoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time
2/28/2025 8:46 PM
It took a couple of years, but it happened: Microsoft released its Copilot AI assistant as an application for macOS. The app is available for download for free from the Mac App Store right now. It was previously available briefly as a Mac app, sort of; for a short time, Microsoft’s iPad Copilot app could […]
Read MoreNew AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
2/28/2025 8:46 PM
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA’s researchers report their 8 billion parameter model performs similarly to LLaMA3 8B across various benchmarks, with competitive results on tasks like MMLU, ARC, and GSM8K. However, Mercury claims dramatic speed improvements. Their Mercury Coder Mini scores 88.0 percent on HumanEval […]
Read MoreGoogle will finally fix awesome (but broken) song detection feature for Pixels
2/28/2025 8:46 PM
Google’s Pixel phones include numerous thoughtful features you don’t get on other phones, like Now Playing. This feature can identify background music from the lock screen, but unlike some similar song identifiers, it works even without an Internet connection. Sadly, it has been broken for months. There is some hope, though. Google has indicated that […]
Read MoreThe PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough
2/28/2025 8:46 PM
Sony’s first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit stores at the right price at the right time and ended up being one of VR’s biggest hits. The PlayStation 5’s PlayStation VR2? Not so much, unfortunately. In either an effort to clear unsold inventory, an attempt to revitalize the platform, or both, Sony has announced […]
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