A group of visual artists has scored a significant victory in their legal battle against AI image generators. A California federal judge has ruled that visual artists can continue to pursue some of their copyright claims against AI companies Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI. The artists alleged that these companies used their copyrighted…
Microsoft plans to begin archiving unlicensed OneDrive user accounts after 90 days beginning Jan. 27, 2025 — with a fee required for account storage and re-activation. There are different reasons why businesses might have unlicensed OneDrive accounts, Microsoft said in a blog post on the SharePoint admin site; if a license has been removed when an employee…
Microsoft fixed 88 vulnerabilities on Tuesday as part of its monthly patching cycle. Six of those flaws were already being actively exploited in the wild before a patch was available and another four were publicly disclosed, putting the total number of zero-day vulnerabilities covered in this release at 10. Of the 88 vulnerabilities patched only…
The massive worldwide Windows outage caused by a disastrous update from the security company CrowdStrike made clear again just how reliant the world is on technologies few people understand — seemingly even the companies in charge of them. The incident is a case study in how vulnerable the world is, not just to technology, but to the…
Modern-day websites aren’t usually built for printing. Whether you want to print a web page on paper, save it as a PDF, or capture a clean screenshot for archival purposes, it’s often harder than it should be. Plus, so much junk — advertisements, pop-ups, navigation elements, and more — can get in the way of…
Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing…
Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. Samuel Axon After a 14-year journey of various states of availability and usefulness amid the shifting policies of Apple’s App Store approval process, MS-DOS game emulator iDOS is back on the iPhone and iPad. It’s hopefully here to stay this time. iDOS allows you to run…
Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each…
Microsoft introduced Windows 365 three years ago, a service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity applications in the form of Office — Microsoft also serves up ersatz hardware,…
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. As with Windows 10, Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the…