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Google denies Gmail reads your emails and attachments to train AI, but here's how to opt-out anyway
Posted on Saturday November 22, 2025
The settings menu states that users who enable smart features agree to let Google use their information and activity to personalize the experience. Malwarebytes and blogger Dave Jones interpreted the wording to mean that the company is training AI with user content, but Google insists this isis inaccurate.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Federal authorities take down criminal network smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Federal prosecutors have charged four individuals for allegedly orchestrating a GPU smuggling operation from the United States to China. The group, consisting of two Americans and two Chinese nationals, is accused of exporting "hundreds" of Nvidia GPUs, providing significant AI acceleration capabilities to Chinese companies.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google's Nano Banana Pro model makes AI images sharper, cleaner, and far more real
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Nano Banana Pro is engineered to deliver what earlier AI image generators often struggled with: consistent accuracy in both image creation and editing, even with complex prompts. Whereas first-generation models like Gemini 2.5 Flash Image sometimes stumbled on nuanced instructions, the new model translates detailed text inputs into visuals with...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Dell and HP turned off HEVC decoding on recent laptops without telling anyone
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Users on various forums have been troubleshooting video playback errors on newer Dell and HP laptops over the past few weeks. While the specific issues vary, recent software decisions by both OEMs appear to be the root cause in all cases.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel confirms Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPUs will debut at CES on January 5th
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Panther Lake processors will employ a five-tile architecture, comprising Cougar Cove performance cores, Darkmont and Skymont efficiency cores, an Xe3 Celestial integrated GPU, and a 5th-generation NPU for on-device AI acceleration. The lineup will introduce Intel's new Core Ultra X branding, with the flagship model designated as Core Ultra 9.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft open-sources the original Zork trilogy, unlocking a huge piece of gaming history
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Microsoft recently introduced its latest effort in digital game preservation by making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT license. Turning the main Zork trilogy into an open source project will make sure students, teachers, and developers can study the original code, play the games, and...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GeForce Now Fast Pass turns budget Chromebooks into capable cloud gaming machines
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
GeForce Now Fast Pass mirrors much of the functionality found in Nvidia's existing free tier. It gives users access to more than 2,000 "Ready to Play" games that can be streamed directly from their existing Steam, Epic Games Store, or Xbox accounts.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PowerToys 0.96 upgrades Advanced Paste with local AI support
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
PowerToys 0.96 upgrades Advanced Paste with a redesigned UI and support for multiple AI endpoints, including Azure, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, and local models like Foundry Local and Ollama. The release also improves the Command Palette and PowerRename tools.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
YouTube dominates, X stalls, Snapchat drops: survey reveals US social media preferences
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
The Pew Research Center's latest Americans' Social Media Use report shows that YouTube remains the most widely used "online platform," which seems like Pew's preferred term for the video-sharing site – the argument over whether YouTube should be classed as a social media company has raged for years.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The age of household robots might finally be here: Meet Memo
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
In a Mountain View kitchen, a wheeled robot named Memo methodically prepares an espresso, illustrating the technical progress underway at Sunday Robotics. The machine, roughly the size of a compact dishwasher, features two articulated arms with pincer-like grippers, a height-adjustable central column, and a display that mimics a cartoon face...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »