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Microsoft is establishing Copilot as its primary AI brand for Windows, Microsoft 365 and GitHub. However, the terms of use, warnings, and disclaimers for each Copilot differ. By doing this, the Redmond-based tech giant is undermining trust in its own AI tool.

For the Raspberry Pi 5: A new add-on board looks well suited to a range of specific use cases and enables both backup power in the event of a power outage and the storage of larger amounts of data on an SSD.

Anthropic’s fight over the leaked 'Claude Code' source code was conducted so aggressively that even official repositories were deleted via DMCA requests. Analysis of the code reveals that the issue involves more than just protected algorithms; it concerns the monitoring of user emotions and concealment.

For about four hours, Nicholas Carlini worked on FreeBSD supported by Anthropic’s Claude. Carlini states that Claude performed a large part of the work autonomously, from identifying the vulnerability to the finished exploit.

The Neuro N6 is a new compact board designed for applications such as image recognition, including the use of AI and neural networks. It is advertised as having low power consumption, which could make it suitable for mobile applications.

Samsung's new Galaxy Book6 Pro is a good 16-inch multimedia laptop with Intel's Panther Lake mobile processors, but the manufacturer charges $2100 for the SKU with the slow iGPU, which is way too expensive.

Google releases Gemma 4: The new model family (E2B to 31B) brings reasoning capabilities and multimodality directly to laptops and smartphones. With a huge context window of up to 256K tokens and Apache 2.0 license, Google is setting an example for free local AI.

Visa is launching six AI tools to streamline credit card dispute handling as volumes hit 106 million in 2025. The tools are designed for merchants and banks with predictive models and automation - rollout is expected later this year.

A PC modder, “kryptonfly,” used Claude AI-assisted BIOS rewriting to inject missing microcode and get Intel’s OEM-only Core 9-273PQE Bartlett Lake CPU to reach POST on an Asus Z790 motherboard, with the BIOS correctly identifying the processor. The system still fails to boot past POST with a black screen and errors, underscoring that full Bartlett Lake support remains unofficial and could be closed off by future Intel or Asus firmware updates.

A new Olaf robot at Disneyland Paris suddenly collapsed during a performance and even lost its carrot nose in the process. On TikTok, the awkward but funny incident is already being celebrated as a viral fail.

The EU Commission is set to introduce the so-called "Data Carbon Tax" on April 1, 2026. This tax on 'dark data'—such as old emails or duplicate photos—is designed to offset the surging energy consumption of AI data centers powering ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar applications. In the future, users who fail to clean up their data within specified deadlines must expect financial penalties or even the mandatory deletion of their cloud storage. However, a little more tidiness can't hurt ;)

If Asia is any indication, other parts of the world could see memory prices fall further. After U.S. and European buyers noticed fluctuations, TrendForce found sharp declines in retail DDR5 RAM costs in China. Yet, critical DRAM manufacturers insist that demand from AI data centers remains steady.

Garmin wearables users can benefit from powerful and very extensive additional data analysis with Garmin Chat Connector, and do so without a paid Garmin Connect+ subscription. Rob Trent shows the capabilities of the solution using an example.

GitHub users have reported massive amounts of spam in over 11,000 projects. Microsoft Copilot has been inserting suggestions that reference the productivity tool Raycast. Developers are calling it advertising, but Microsoft has denied this, attributing it to a technical error that has since been fixed.

OpenClaw has become a massive trend in China, with lobster-themed merchandise and government subsidies fuelling the hype. In contrast, Europe and the US remain sceptical. While Chinese companies use the agent to increase efficiency, Western companies are primarily concerned about the potential risks.

A bedside lamp that not only automatically adapts to your sleep rhythm, but also uses mmWave sensors to enable more precise sleep tracking than a smartwatch - Sleepal aims to contribute to better sleep health.

A Reddit user reported buying a Crucial 64GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM laptop memory kit for $6.99 at a local liquidator after it was labeled as an Amazon return and lacked a price tag, prompting the cashier to assign a flat price.

Czech-to-English translator and editor Max Hejtmanek says Warhorse Studios abruptly ended his four-year role on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, telling him his position would become “obsolete” as the company shifts all future translation work to AI to boost efficiency and cut costs. Hejtmanek, who says he handled much of the game’s English text from dialogue to promotional material, urged fans not to harass staff or review-bomb the game, while Warhorse and its publisher have not publicly responded.

To keep the PS6 price reasonable, Sony may sacrifice a larger SSD and an optical drive. A leaker thinks that neural texture compression could result in trimmer game sizes than expected. The PS5 price increase and storage shortage have other analysts predicting a $1000 MSRP.

Google wants to make it much easier to switch from ChatGPT, Grok and other AI apps to Gemini. New import tools can transfer memories, preferences and complete chat histories so users no longer have to start from scratch.

The Taalas HC1 is a new chip – essentially a processor – specifically designed to accelerate a single AI model. The rise of such specialized chips isn’t an entirely new phenomenon and has already been seen in crypto mining.

New Blood Interactive CEO David Oshry and Dusk creator David Szymanski have criticized Nvidia’s forthcoming DLSS 5, set to launch this fall on RTX 50-series GPUs, arguing that its shift toward generative AI goes beyond super-sampling and muddies what DLSS is meant to be. Both warn that “optional” adoption may become effectively mandatory as games are built around the tech, and they urge developers and consumers to push back by withholding collaboration and spending.

Will Wright, creator of The Sims, is continuing to push forward with Proxi, an AI-driven “memory game” that turns players’ personal recollections into a navigable world populated by avatar-like Proxies, despite years of technical uncertainty and investor skepticism. After Gallium Studios’ funding dried up in October 2024 and its 30-person team was laid off, Wright has kept the project alive with an unpaid skeleton crew while still searching for backers in 2026, framing the effort as a high-risk pursuit he’d rather see fail spectacularly than succeed modestly.

CheckMag Whether you are looking to host a D&D campaign, troubleshoot code, generate ideas, create NSFW content, or bypass the guardrails set out by the big players, hosting your own LLM is easy with KoboldCPP, and works surprisingly well, even without a GPU.

U.S. buyers are starting to see memory prices level off at major retailers. Amazon shoppers will find that some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM is now slightly more affordable. Google’s TurboQuant algorithm may allow AI data centers to use fewer modules, increasing supply for gamers.

Omnissa says Windows devices in its enterprise telemetry dataset saw 3.1 times more forced shutdowns than macOS in 2025, alongside higher crash and app-hang rates.

Half-Life 2 and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw says a small group at Valve is quietly experimenting with generative AI tools, though he argues the technology remains “pretty bad” at creative writing and isn’t a near-term threat to human authors. He suggests AI may be more useful for improving real-time, reactive NPC dialogue systems, while emphasizing Valve’s efforts are informal and exploratory rather than a company-wide initiative.

A new report explains how Battlefield 6 may have taken years longer to surface without AI tools. Developers relied on machine learning to make lip movements appear more natural and modify facial animations. Despite the lack of a Steam disclosure, gamers also believe the company approved AI images.

Google is expanding its "Live Translate" feature to iOS, allowing iPhone users to experience real-time audio translation through headphones. Supporting over 70 languages, the tool preserves the speaker's original tone and cadence for more natural conversations. The update is currently rolling out across major global markets, including the UK, Japan, and Europe.

Apple plans to introduce "Extensions" in iOS 27, allowing users to replace or expand Siri’s AI capabilities with third-party chatbots like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. This might turn Siri from one of the least helpful AI assistants to one of the most flexible ones.

This compact AI voice recorder offers unlimited transcription, supports numerous languages and sports a long recording time. Thanks to a big spring sale discount, this helpful gadget is now 27% cheaper than usual.

Ride-hailing company Uber, together with Verne and Pony.ai, is bringing autonomous taxis to European roads. The first commercial robotaxi network is launching in Croatia.

Intel published slides comparing the Arc Pro B70 GPU with Nvidia's RTX 4000 Pro. The Intel card appears to have up to 2.2x larger context windows thanks to its 33% larger VRAM capacity, which leads to 2x tokens per dollar performance increase and up to 6.2x faster responses in multi-agent or multi-user workloads.

OpenAI has changed how ChatGPT handles long pasted text, with content over 5,000 characters now converted into attachments for Plus, Pro, and Business users.

A leaked AMD GitHub repository revealed an INT8 build of FSR 4 that appears capable of running on RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs, even as AMD positions official FSR 4 support exclusively for newer RDNA 4 hardware. Sony has effectively deployed this same INT8 technology as the PlayStation 5’s upgraded PSSR (often dubbed PSSR 2.0), prompting modders to port the leaked libraries to Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards while AMD remains publicly silent.

The second batch of limited-edition Dnsys Z1 knee exoskeletons made in collaboration with Kojima Productions will be released on March 26, 2026. The exoskeleton reflects the world of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach while providing mobility assistance.

The MacBook Pro 14 with Apple's new M5 Max SoC has some flaws, but the overall performance is still excellent and there is hardly a better alternative, especially when you want to edit pictures or videos.

Google is turning up the volume on generative AI with the launch of Lyria 3 Pro, capable of composing full three-minute songs with pro-grade control. This new model allows users to ask Lyria for specific verses, choruses, and bridges. From original gaming soundtracks to cost-cutting corporate jingles, Lyria 3 Pro is set to disrupt the music industry by putting studio-grade production in the hands of everyone.

Thanks to artificial intelligence and data from the TESS satellite, astronomers have been able to discover new exoplanets in the universe. And this could also help solve one of the greatest mysteries to this day.

In the sci-fi MMORPG SpaceMolt, 700 AI agents have gathered around a quest relic and founded their own religion. Phenomena like this are not all that unusual in a game like SpaceMolt, however, and are described by the developers as “emergent behavior.”

E-commerce giant Amazon has just acquired Swiss delivery robot start-up Rivr, known for its autonomous delivery robots. The goal is total automation through robotics and AI, further streamlining Amazon's delivery operations and cutting down on costs. Meanwhile, former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has bigger ideas.

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has just published paradoxical quarterly results. While its new electric vehicle business, centered around the top-selling SU7 and YU7 models, is outperforming competitors such as Tesla and BYD with record margins, profits in the smartphone sector have plummeted. Exploding hardware costs are taking a toll.

The golden age of dating apps is over. Alongside dating pioneer Tinder, competitors such as Bumble are now also struggling with a massive drop in user numbers. It seems singles have grown tired of "endless swiping". Now, the industry leader from the US is responding to the growing frustration by implementing a plan that has been on the back burner for over a year.

Developers apologized for failing to disclose the role of generative AI in the Crimson Desert Steam listing. Some players have appealed to Valve anyway, noting that the announcement came after its release date. The marketplace may not issue refunds due to the small number of placeholder AI Images.

MacBook's are very popular among content creators and the two new SoCs M5 Pro as well as M5 Max manage excellent results in the PugetBench tests for Adobe apps and DaVinci Resolve. They also clearly beat the mobile GeForce RTX 5090.

OpenAI just announced the abrupt shutdown of its AI video app, Sora, just six months after its record-breaking debut and the collapse of a $1 billion Disney partnership. While the move marks a rare failure for the AI giant, creators are left wondering if this is a win for human artistry or simply a tactical retreat before a more powerful successor arrives.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has softened his stance on criticism of DLSS 5 after initially dismissing gamers as “completely wrong” following the technology’s GTC 2026 showcase. In a Lex Fridman podcast interview, Huang said he understands concerns about “AI slop” and insisted DLSS 5 is intended as an optional, artist-controlled development tool amid controversy sparked by an altered Resident Evil Requiem demo and Capcom’s subsequent rejection of generative AI for final assets.

Capcom says it will not ship games containing AI-generated materials or assets, but will use generative AI internally to speed up development across areas like graphics, sound, and programming. The policy, disclosed in a March 23 investor Q&A amid renewed scrutiny following NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 showcase, positions AI as a productivity tool rather than a source of final in-game content.