PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is Such a Common Password
For too many people, moving the digits around in some variation of Patriots69Lover is their idea of a strong password. So you might expect something complicated like” “ji32k7au4a83” would be a great password. But according to the data breach repository Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), it shows up more often than one might expect.
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‘Dance, Bing, Dance’: Microsoft Lets Users Choose the Tone of Chatbot’s ‘Personality’
Microsoft’s Bing AI now has three different modes to play around with, though even the most “Creative” version of the company’s Prometheus AI remains a severely limited version of the ChatGPT model.
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Zuckerberg Says ‘AI Personas’ Are Coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram
Meta is angling to get in on the artificial intelligence arms race, whether that’s with AI-generated photo filters to ads.
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Google Starts Rolling Out Fall Detection to the Pixel Watch
Four months after its launch, Google has finally brought fall detection to the Pixel Watch. The software update starts rolling out today to all Pixel Watch users. You can check for it on the device or through the Personal Safety app on Android.