Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on ‘improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows’ which is better than more AI

Microsoft seems to have listened to the year-long barrage of collective groaning, as it is apparently now focusing on improving the things in Windows 11 that matter. The Verge has heard from Pavan Davuluri, president of Windows and devices, who says the company needs “to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people.” “This…

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Mozilla says it’s building a ‘rebel alliance’ to challenge Big Tech and what it’s doing with AI, which is wild but I’m kind of here for it

Mozilla has been carving out a space for itself in this new and frightfully fast-growing world of AI. Last month, there was backlash when it announced that Firefox would “evolve into a modern AI browser.” Since then, it seems Mozilla has been clarifying what exactly this means, possibly in an attempt to reassure those who…

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You can now view the Computer History Museum’s collection from the comfort of your own home, and it’s full of retro blasts from the past

I love a good museum, and I also love me some antique hardware. So, I was overjoyed this morning to discover the Computer History Museum has launched a digital portal (via Hackaday), which means you can enjoy its collection from the comfort of your own home. The museum is based near Mountain View, California, which…

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Darren Aronofsky might finally kill art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce

I’ve been harsh about AI on this website before, but I’ll give it this—before the advent of the LLM revolution, I don’t know that I’d ever seen anything literally without value before (and I watched that Borderlands movie). Darren Aronofsky, the director behind films like Mother!, Black Swan, and The Whale, has a new project:…

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DeepSeek has reportedly been given conditional approval by the Chinese government to buy Nvidia’s AI GPUs

According to Reuters, two people “familiar with the matter” have said that the Chinese government has given approval for its top AI startup, DeepSeek, to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI GPUs, with regulatory conditions that are still being finalised. If these reports are true, it would mark a significant shift in China’s previous reluctance to allow…

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Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: ‘This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state’

Well, don’t I have egg on my face. After writing an article yesterday wherein I pointed out that Windows 11 is “currently in a reasonable state“, it appears the OS now has something of a stacked bug problem. We previously reported on a bug that Microsoft said was creating a “limited number of reports” over…

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