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Meta, IBM and others launch AI Alliance to drive open AI development – MSPoweruser
To counter the rapid development of AI by technology giants including Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, Meta and IBM along with a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government today launched the AI Alliance to drive open AI development.
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European Union’s negotiators approve new regulations for AI software and services – Neowin
The European Union’s negotiators have approved new regulations for AI software and services, which could result in fines for companies that do not follow these rules.
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There is just one thing missing. There is no ban on AI systems causing mass unemployment. 😉
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This is a topic not included in the new regulations. Not yet 🤨
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Microsoft confirms a Windows 11, Windows 10 bug mistakenly renames printers
Microsoft is officially looking into the Windows 11 printer bug to determine how all printers are now HP-branded.
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Microsoft Learn Launches a New Series on Generative AI for Innovators
Do you have a great idea for a startup, but dont know how to turn it into reality? Do you want to learn how to use the latest AI technologies to create..
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OpenAIs Sam Altman opens up about shock firing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals where he was and how he felt when the former board of the artificial intelligence startup he co-founded fired him, a move that was quickly reversed.
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Azure Command Companion – Microsoft Community Hub
Welcome to the world of efficient and effective Azure resource management with the “Azure Command Companion”. This innovative tool, powered by Azure OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo model, is designed to simplify the complex task of provisioning, managing, and querying Azure resources.
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By leveraging the advanced language understanding capabilities of GPT-3.5 Turbo, it can generate Azure CLI commands from natural language inputs. Simply provide your requirements in plain English, and the Azure Command Companion will translate them into the appropriate Azure CLI commands.
Sounds like DevOps without dev.
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Clean Windows 11 23H2 benchmarked against Windows 11 22H2 – Neowin
23H2 brings with it many new changes for Windows 11, some good and some less popular, like CoPilot, but who cares? All we want at the end of the day is a better more stable, and faster system, right?
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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT getting ‘lazier’, working on a fix – MSPoweruser
Weve been hearing since the last few days that OpenAIs GPT-4 LLM (Large Language Model) has become lazier, with users complaining that it does a sloppy job of completing tasks it used to do with ease sometime back.
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I think that the November update included more data than previous training sets. It is a well-known fact that Language Models (LLMs) do not necessarily improve with more data. Therefore, I believe that we will witness the emergence of more specialized LLMs in the future.
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Microsoft confirms a Windows 11, Windows 10 bug mistakenly renames printers
Microsoft is officially looking into the Windows 11 printer bug to determine how all printers are now HP-branded.
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Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 21.3 ‘Virginia’ Beta now available for download
The beta release of Linux Mint 21.
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Over 30% of Log4J apps use a vulnerable version of the library
Roughly 38% of applications using the Apache Log4j library are using a version vulnerable to security issues, including Log4Shell, a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2021-44228 that carries the maximum severity rating, despite patches being available for more than two years.
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Google shares fix for deleted Google Drive files
Google says it identified and fixed a bug causing customer files added to Google Drive after April-May 2023 to disappear. However, the fix isn’t working for all affected users.
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Luckily, I just moved from Google Drive to iCloud because I often had syncing issues. Google Drive was undoubtedly more reliable than OneDrive, but it is time-consuming if files are always missing when you switch to another device.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Copilot is the next gen Windows Start button, but not literally – Neowin
It looks like Microsoft is pumped and excited about Copilot. The company Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella recently said that Copilot is the Start menu on the next-gen AI-powered Windows.
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This is what Nadella said:
The Copilot is like the Start button. It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.
For me, this sounds more like “Copilot is the next gen Windows.” I mean what else does an OS do than “navigate me to an application.”
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SLAM Attack: New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs
Your CPU might be at risk. New SLAM side-channel attack can leak sensitive data from Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs.
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Edge Copilot can now summarise videos, generates time stamps – MSPoweruser
Microsoft Edge Copilot is gaining a new superpower: the ability to process information from videos. As shared by Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising & Web Services at Microsoft, the updated Copilot displays a video summary alongside the playing YouTube video.
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Lubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ship with Optional Wayland Session, Improved Installer – 9to5Linux
The upcoming Lubuntu 24.04 LTS distribution will ship with an optional Wayland session and an updated Calamares installer with new options.
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Microsoft introduces ‘Install as You Browse’ in the Microsoft Store via Windows 11 Insider (Beta Channel) – MSPoweruser
Before going to the main story, Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel had a recent release of Build 22635.2850 (KB5033453). This update brings several new features and improvements, but one that stands out is the integration of WhatsApp with the Windows Share functionality.
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Surface Pro 8 and Pro 7+ get Wi-Fi dropout fixes, inking improvements, and more – Neowin
The December 2023 firmware update is rolling out to the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro 7+. It fixes Wi-Fi dropouts, improves Bluetooth connections, enhances inking, and patches security issues.
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Say goodbye to Windows Speech Recognition this month – MSPoweruser
Microsoft has officially announced the deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition.
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Windows 11 is getting an ‘Advanced Settings’ panel for power users
Tired of default settings? You can soon use the new ‘Advanced Settings’ panel in Windows 11 and tailor your system to your needs.
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AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST show how Defender, McAfee, Norton, AVG hog your Windows 11, 10 PCs – Neowin
Microsoft Defender is found to be one of the worst performers in AV-Comparatives test suite which measured performance impact by anti-malware apps. AV-TEST also found similar results.
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AWS CodeDeploy now provides zonal deployment for Amazon EC2
AWS CodeDeploy now provides the ability to deploy your application one Availability Zone (AZ) at a time. Known as zonal deployment, it isolates the blast radius of any adverse in-place application deployments to a single AZ without impacting other AZs within an AWS Region.
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Deploy your Azure Machine Learning prompt flow on virtually any platform
Prompt flow is one of the most exciting tools that you can leverage to orchestrate your generative AI applications. Did you know that you can execute your flow..
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2850 (Beta Channel) | Windows Insider Blog
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2850 (KB5033453) to the Beta Channel. REMINDER: All Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel will now be on the same build (Build 22635.
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EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence | Ars Technica
Legislation lays out restrictive regime for emerging technology.
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Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Is Now Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.0 – 9to5Linux
Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for public beta testing with the latest Cinnamon 6.0 desktop environment and experimental Wayland support.
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Microsoft Edge 120 Released With Enabled App Container And New Policies
Patch up any information disclosure vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge with version 120, which you can download here.
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UUP Media Creator gets update with fixes for building Windows Insider ISOs – Neowin
UUP Media Creator, a third-party app for downloading and building Windows images (ISO), received an update to version 3.1.9.2. It fixes problems with creating builds higher than 26002.
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Windows: Microsoft declares speech recognition as deprecated | Born’s Tech and Windows World
The list of discontinued Windows functions that will eventually be removed is getting longer and longer. After Cortana, WebDAV client, etc., Microsoft also no longer wants to retain the speech recognition introduced with Windows Vista.
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GNOME Shell 45.2 Update Rolling out to Ubuntu 23.10 – OMG! Ubuntu
The first point release to GNOME Shell 45 only hit Ubuntu 23.10 at the end of last month, and now a second one is already on its way! GNOME Shell 45.
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Microsoft: Outlook email sending issues for users with lots of folders
Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 users and causing email-sending problems for those with too many nested folders.
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Transforming communications with Copilot for Microsoft 365 – The Official Microsoft Blog
At Microsoft, weve asked our communications team to be innovators of AI. To explore and experiment with how we can all use it in our everyday work. Weve urged the team not to forget their unique expertise and value the art of communications but to welcome some science into the process, to be…
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Microsoft tests a way for you to undock Copilot in Windows; new build rolling out for Dev insiders – MSPoweruser
The Redmond-based tech giant is currently testing a new feature that allows users to undock the Copilot panel in Windows.
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AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster
AWS Lambda functions now scale up at a 12x faster rate. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit.
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LogoFail vulnerability affects many Windows and Linux devices – gHacks Tech News
Many commercial computers are vulnerable to a set of vulnerabilities that exploit flaws in the processing of startup logos during boot.
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Alpine Linux 3.19 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS and Raspberry Pi 5 Support – 9to5Linux
Alpine Linux 3.19 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.6 LTS, Raspberry Pi 5 support, GNOME 45 desktop, and more.
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23601 (Dev Channel) | Windows Insider Blog
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23601 to the Dev Channel.
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Windows 11 Notepad gets a built-in character counter, finally
Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being abuilt-in character counter.
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PowerToys 0.76.1 is out with fixes for FancyZones, PowerToys Run, and more – Neowin
The 0.76 release brings new File Explorer Add-ons in Preview Handler and Thumbnail Provider, it modernizes PowerToys Run, Quick Accent and Text Extractor UIs Windows 11-like theme, and fixes.
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Microsoft reveals Edge Copilot requires ‘pre-processing’ for video transcription – MSPoweruser
Microsofts Edge Copilot recently gained the ability to summarize YouTube videos, even if they lack timestamps. However, a recent tweet by Microsofts Mikhail Parakhin clarifies that the transcribing functionality relies on pre-processed video data or subtitles embedded within the video.
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Accessing new Windows Server Insider Preview versions should be easier in early 2024 – Neowin
Microsoft has announced, starting in early 2024, members of the Windows Server Insider Program will be able to download new builds the same way as Windows Insider Program users receive them
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Microsoft acknowledges it’s not HP who’s auto-installing printer Smart app on your Windows – Neowin
Microsoft recently confirmed that user complaints about Windows auto-installing the HP Smart printer app were correct. Today, the company has acknowledged that HP is not at fault for this.
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GitHub – Sysinternals/ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
ProcDump is a Linux reimagining of the classic ProcDump tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. ProcDump provides a convenient way for Linux developers to create core dumps of their application based on performance triggers.
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Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints and Azure API Management – Microsoft Community Hub
Efficiently load balance your OpenAI endpoints for optimal scalability and resilience!
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Azure Communication Services December 2023 Feature Updates – Microsoft Community Hub
Azure Communication Services chat integration with the Azure AI Bot Service is now generally available. This new capability enables developers to connect their conversational bots built on the Azure AI Bot Service to Azure Communication Services Chat. This new functionality will be especially helpful in customer service scenarios where bots can provide the first line of support.
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Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) | AWS News Blog
One of the challenges with distributed systems is that they are made up of many interdependent services, which add a degree of complexity when you are trying to monitor their performance. Determining which services and APIs are experiencing high latencies or degraded availability requires manually putting together telemetry signals.
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Author API Management policies using Microsoft Copilot for Azure – Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft Copilot for Azure, now in public preview, introduces policy authoring capabilities for Azure API Management, empowering API developers and..
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Bard with Gemini Pro has a sense of humor
I just asked if he/she/it is based on Gemini Pro. See the answer in the screenshot below. It seems our new AI in town has a sense of humor.
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Never tried with Bard, but good to know 🙂
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I was experimenting with Bard a little and encountered an odd issue. I requested it to create a basic Word macro, which ChatGPT handled without any problems. However, Bard produced a script that made no sense, and then it stopped responding. After reloading the page, I was surprised to see three different scripts that were valid. It appears that there might be some problems with the interface.
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AWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement
Today, AWS announces an updated Service Level Agreement (SLA) for AWS Secrets Manager, which promises a stronger availability commitment. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make AWS Secrets Manager available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each AWS Region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event AWS Secrets Manager does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the AWS Secrets Manager SLA.
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Google Bard: How to try the new Gemini AI model
Were starting to bring Geminis advanced capabilities into Bard.
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Big Blue is worried about being left behind again.
Probably… 🙄 in any case there are many vendors, universities, and other public services that try to drive and give rules for AI technology. We hope that this initiative will also keep an eye on the user side.