Microsoft adds AI Copilot key on Windows keyboards

This move underscores the tech giant’s commitment to infusing AI into its products, aligning with its substantial investments in artificial intelligence. The Copilot key is a testament to Microsoft’s ambitions for AI-enabled PCs, designed to harness advanced chips capable of running large-language models and AI-powered applications directly on the device, rather than relying on the cloud. This strategic move is anticipated to revitalise the personal computer market post-pandemic, with analysts predicting accelerated adoption of AI-capable PCs starting in 2025. Expected to make its debut on some new Windows 11 PCs…

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X users report global outage: monitoring site

SAN FRANCISCO: Tens of thousands of global users of X on Thursday reported problems using the Elon Musk-owned social network. Reports of the platform´s troubles began spiking just before 0600 GMT on monitoring site Downdetector. “User reports indicate problems at X (Twitter),” the site said. Timelines on the platform were emptied and no new posts visible, although the twitter.com site was available. With no way to post on X, social media users published updates about the outage on rivals including Facebook, Threads, and Reddit. The platform resumed service for users…

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin postpones space travel due to technical difficulties

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin had to postpone its much-anticipated return to space on Monday due to technical difficulties, however, the company promised to try again later this week. Since an unmanned September 2022 crash put the company’s programme on hold while it made repairs and sought regulatory certification, Jeff Bezos’s space company has not launched a rocket, AFP reported. Finally, the business declared that it would launch on December 18 from its facility close to Van Horn, Texas. However, due to the frigid weather on the actual day, it first moved back…

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Meta rolls out much-anticipated end-to-end encryption on Messenger

Meta is finally delivering a promise that the company made years ago by announcing Thursday the launch of end-to-end encryption for one-on-one talks and calls on Messenger. According to the company, only the sender and the recipient may see the contents of a message received using Messenger when end-to-end encryption is turned on. In 2016, Messenger’s encrypted conversation capability was first made available as an optional feature. But after a lengthy court battle, proposals for two-person talks and end-to-end encrypted messages will now be accepted as standard practice. “This has…

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Good news! WhatsApp users will soon be able to share status updates on other platforms

n a bid to streamline cross-platform content sharing, WhatsApp is currently developing a feature to allow its users to share their WhatsApp status updates on Instagram as well. The feature, once introduced, will not only save time but also improve reliability and consistency by streamlining content sharing across the two platforms. The development came into the limelight after being discovered by the WaBetaInfo in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.25.20 update available on the Google Play Store which provisions “optional sharing” of status updates on the other platform. As seen from…

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More than 500 OpenAI employees threaten to leave over Sam Altman ouster

Hundreds of OpenAI employees are threatening to leave and demanding that the ChatGPT board resign, a move which comes after a turbulent weekend that started with CEO Sam Altman’s unexpected termination and concluded with Altman being hired by Microsoft. They would follow OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, who said he was starting an AI subsidiary at Microsoft following his shock sacking from the company whose ChatGPT chatbot has led the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology. In a letter, some of OpenAI’s most senior staff members threatened to leave the company…

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AI may make warfare deadly further wrecking world peace: experts

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to completely transform combat, much like gunpowder and the atomic bomb did and it might make conflicts between people unthinkably different and considerably deadlier, as per experts. There were rumours that US President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping would agree to outlaw lethal autonomous weapons before their next conference. Although there didn’t seem to be any agreement from the summit, experts believe it’s an important issue that is already changing armed conflict and intensifying the race for global domination. Analysts claim Beijing is…

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Bad news! WhatsApp to stop offering ‘unlimited’ storage for backups

The prominent messaging platform WhatsApp is set to stop rendering “unlimited storage” for chat backups in the near future. Google, along with the meta-owned app, will notify its users in advance of their decision to remove the unlimited quota option for WhatsApp backups. For now, the storage-limiting feature available on the WhatsApp Business beta for Android 2.23.24.21 update, but the two companies intend to roll out this change to beta testers soon, followed by everyone else next year, WaBetaInfo reported. When implemented, this change will bring WhatsApp’s backup feature at par with that of iOS…

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New Outlook for Windows wants to send your non-MSA data to its servers — Should you be worried?

Microsoft made its intentions for the New Outlook for Windows app public a few days ago, a feature that seems to have slipped under the radar despite being in preview for some time is its ability to sync user mail data even when the user is not using a Microsoft Account (MSA), such as Gmail or Yahoo. This was noted by d3rf3l, a Neowin forum user, who started a topic about it. It was during the testing of the New Outlook that German outlet Heise discovered a warning concerning.  Their…

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WhatsApp rolls out ability to format, customise messages text

After announcing the enhanced search option for the web client, Meta-owned messenger WhatsApp is now releasing the new text formatting tool to improve the messaging capabilities for its desktop users, WABetaInfo reported. The new set of tools will enable the users to format the text and customise the appearance and layout of their messages. As per the WhatsApp news tracker, the update will be available to some beta testers prior to being rolled out to more users. “Following successful testing with a select group of beta testers over the past…

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