Javier Pastor

54 published news

July 2024

1. 05 July
2. AI Models Are Being Trained With Photos of Children. And It Doesn’t Matter if Parents Try to Avoid It
3. 04 July
4. Against All Odds, Threads Has Turned Into a Serious Rival for X, With 175 Million Monthly Active Users and Counting
5. We Now Know How Many Google Searches End Up With Users Staying on Google. Too Many
6. The ChatGPT Client for Mac Is the Latest Example of Why We Need More Security in AI
7. 03 July
8. A 20 TB SSD for $300 Is Possible: Manufacturers Believe They Can Make One by 2027
9. Google Is Reportedly Getting Ready to Release Its Own Version of Microsoft's Recall. At First Glance, I Prefer Google
10. 01 July
11. NASA Detected an Asteroid the Size of One of the Giza Pyramids Just Two Weeks Before It Passed 'Close to' Earth

June 2024

1. 27 June
2. YouTube Sees a Future Where AI Will Clone Current Music, But Convincing Record Companies Won’t Be Easy
3. 26 June
4. The EU’s Regulatory Obsession Is Creating a World Where AI Will Advance at Two Speeds—and Europe Will End Up Losing
5. Microsoft Is Reverting to Its Old Ways: It's Forcing Users to Use OneDrive Installing Windows 11
6. Say Goodbye to Google’s Search Infinite Scroll. Google Assures Users That Removing It Is a Major Improvement
7. 24 June
8. Microsoft Doesn’t Like The Fact That Users Use Local Accounts in Windows 11. So, It Removed the Instructions for Setting Them Up
9. Google Maps Has Been Tracking Our Movements for Years. Now, That Data Will Be More Accessible to Us Than Ever
10. ChatGPT and Its Rivals Are Boring and Dull. Making Them Funny Isn't Going to Be Easy
11. 21 June
12. ChatGPT Created a Script for a Movie About Creativity in Cinema. A Movie Theater Is Refusing to Screen It
13. 20 June
14. Microsoft Wanted to Sell Us a New Era of PCs With AI. So Far, It Hasn't Delivered on That Front, But It Has on Everything Else
15. Ilya Sutskever's New AI Company Has a Clear Goal: To Develop a Superintelligence With 'Nuclear'-Level Safety
16. 19 June
17. Lenovo’s New Copilot+ Laptops Showcase the Future of the PC: Efficiency Shines, With AI Promising to Do the Same
18. 14 June
19. Amazon Wanted to Turn Alexa into ChatGPT’s Nemesis, But the Project Is in Chaos
20. Big Tech Is Realizing Something: Their AI Can’t Keep Messing Up on This Scale
21. 13 June
22. The ‘Compact’ Version of Stable Diffusion 3 Is Here. And It’s Generating Monstrous Human Bodies
23. Microsoft’s Agreement With OpenAI Was Only the First Step. What It (Probably) Wants Is to Get Rid of the AI Company
24. 12 June
25. Apple Intelligence Is the Perfect Excuse to Buy More iPhones, a Crucial Element to the Company's Future
26. 11 June
27. Apple Intelligence: Apple’s Ambitious Bid to Finally Integrate AI Across Its Ecosystem
28. 06 June
29. AI Services Are Everywhere, Ushering in the Return of Subscription Fatigue
30. 05 June
31. Elon Musk Diverted Thousands of NVIDIA GPUs From Tesla to X. His Argument: They Would Have Collected Dust at Tesla
32. Microsoft’s ‘Co-Pilots’ Penetrate Everything Except Phones. Here's A Crazy Idea: Revive the Windows Phone
33. 04 June
34. Cohere Is Canada's Version of OpenAI for Business. It Does the Exact Opposite of Sam Altman
35. 03 June
36. 8BitDo’s New Retro Keyboard Pays Tribute to an All-Time Classic: the IBM Model M
37. NVIDIA Presents Project G-Assist: a Chatbot That Can Help You Defeat the Final Boss in Video Games
38. 02 June
39. I’ve Been Using a 5K Monitor for Years. I Still Don’t Understand How the Industry Hasn’t Made Them Mainstream
40. 01 June
41. Researchers Successfully Cracked the Password on an Old Crypto-Wallet. Their Reward: $3 Million

May 2024

1. 31 May
2. How to ‘Dumb Down’ Your Phone: These Apps Want You to Be Less Glued to Its Small Screen
3. 30 May
4. OpenAI Has a Clear Plan on How to Make ChatGPT Plus Succeed: Using ChatGPT as a Hook
5. 29 May
6. A Google Search Leak Allegedly Reveals Many of Its Algorithm’s Secrets. It's Digital Gold for SEO Experts
7. 28 May
8. Neuralink’s ‘Impossible’ Challenge Isn't a Brain Implant. It's a ‘Pied Piper’ and MP3 Players
9. Google’s Search Engine Is Undergoing Its Most Important Revolution Ever. So Far, It’s Been a Disaster
10. 24 May
11. Meta AI Chief Yann LeCun Is Sure About One Thing: LLMs like ChatGPT Won’t Replicate Human Intelligence
12. My Name Is 'Savan,' Not 'Satan.' Autocorrect's Obsession With Changing Names Is Causing a Slew of Controversy
13. Google’s AI Suggested Gluing Cheese to Your Pizza. Its Source Is a Reddit Comment From 11 Years Ago
14. 23 May
15. Windows’ Photographic Memory Feature, Recall, Wants You to Trust Microsoft More Than Any Other Company
16. After Years of Reading Books on My Phone, Here Are Some Apps and Tips on How to Get Started
17. The Rise of Digital Decay: How 38% of the Websites That Existed in 2013 Have Vanished From the Internet
18. 21 May
19. Recall, Windows’ New Star Feature, Is ‘Like Having a Photographic Memory’ in Your PC
20. 18 May
21. We Thought VPNs Were Unhackable, But It Looks Like Hackers Can Spy on Them While You're Connected
22. 17 May
23. Goodbye ‘Twitter.com.' Hello ‘X.com.’ Domain Change Marks New Chapter in Elon Musk’s Master Plan (and Obsession)
24. Passkeys Promised a Future Without Passwords, But They're Turning Our Present Into a Walled Garden
25. 16 May
26. Microsoft Already Knows How to Conquer the AI World: Money. It's Spent Nearly $30 Billion (So Far)
27. 15 May
28. Google's Project Astra Is Its Own Version of 'Her.' It's a Virtual Assistant You Can Chat With Using AR Glasses
29. 09 May
30. Apple Crushed Old School Tech With an iPad in New Ad. People Are Pissed
31. Spies Also Wanted to Use ChatGPT. Microsoft Created One for Them
32. 08 May
33. Deepfakes From Met Gala Prove We Have a Problem. Even Katy Perry’s Mom Thought They Were Real
34. Apple Debuts M4 Chip a Year Earlier Than Expected. The Culprit Is, Of Course, AI

April 2024

1. 23 April
2. Apple iMac M3 (2023) Review: Same Packaging, More Power, and Better for Gaming