Category: Shorts

How Ads Might Look in Google’s New AI-Powered Search Experience Well, if a new Google video is anything to go by, ads are going to be even more annoying in the search experience than they were before. But at least that’s what company execs are saying. In the video, they show off their new AI-powered…

The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2019 The company has made many announcements about how it’s going to use AI across its apps and services, including in Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and more. Today, they announce that Windows 11 will get an AI Copilot and that it will live within the taskbar. Microsoft 365…

Golden Jackal: A New Threat Group Targeting Middle Eastern and South Asian Governments GoldenJackal – A worm that’s engineered to infect systems using removable USB drives and install the JackalControl trojan. This group of cybercriminals has been active for at least four years, although little is known about the group. Their main attack vector is…

Google’s new AI tool for adding flair to product images In a press release, Google announces that it’s launching a new tool called Product Studio for merchants. It lets merchants quickly edit and customize product images using artificial intelligence. Image: GoogleText prompts can be used within Product Studio to quickly make visual adjustments to product…

Google AI-Generated Ads The company offers the new features to advertisers for free, but says they could increase its revenue if AI-generated text and images encourage businesses to place more ads, or draw more clicks from consumers. Offering generative AI in ads is likely expensive, because the computing costs to operate text- and image-generating models…

Microsoft Build 2023: What to Expect Microsoft is holding its Build developer conference. Similar to other developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple’s WWDC, Microsoft uses Build to make feature announcements for its platforms and provide in-depth sessions for developers and other professionals that rely on its tools. There will be an in-person event taking…

Microsoft announces Windows Copilot, an AI personal assistant for Windows 10 Microsoft is adding a Copilot AI assistant to Windows 11. Called Windows Copilot, the new assistant will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and available to use from the taskbar. It will work just like the other sidebars we’ve seen in Edge, Office, and…

Windows Terminal is getting AI features thanks to GitHub Copilot The launch of GitHub Copilot comes just months after GitHub announced a new ChatGPT-like assistant to help developers write and fix code. The company also experiments with adding AI-powered features to other developer tools like its own WinDbg debugger. Today, it announces that it will…

Windows app reinstallation made easy with Microsoft’s new Dev Home Microsoft is making it easier for developers to set up and use Windows dev machines with Dev Home. It uses the Windows Package Manager to generate a configuration file to install the apps, tools, and packages that developers need. It also includes the ability to…

Microsoft’s Copilot and Bing AI Plugins to Work with ChatGPT Microsoft and OpenAI announce that they will support the same open plug-in standard for their chatbots, enabling interoperability between plug-ins for Bing Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot platform, and ChatGPT. Until now, only Google has supported this kind of standard, but it’s limited to two companies that…