Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again: Meteor Lake meh, Linux upgrades good

Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again: Meteor Lake meh, Linux upgrades good

Enlarge / The ever-evolving Framework Laptop 13 is back again, this time with some Linux-friendly upgrades and Intel’s new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs. Andrew Cunningham Would you believe that the Framework Laptop 13 is back again? Framework’s fifth motherboard for the Laptop 13—which, in typical fashion, can be easily swapped into any existing Framework…

Apple’s Patreon fee will hurt the wrong people

Apple’s Patreon fee will hurt the wrong people

Apple’s insistence on taking a slice of subscription sales made on iOS from Patreon seems short-sighted, as it effectively takes money from the pockets of creatives who probably aren’t earning that much. Of course, from Apple’s point of view, its rules have to apply consistently and apparently it has not been consistently applying these against Patreon, which…

Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

Enlarge / A still video capture of X user João Fiadeiro replacing his face with J.D. Vance in a test of Deep-Live-Cam. Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going viral on social media because it can take the face of a person extracted from a single photo and apply…

X faces new challenges in Europe over AI training with personal data

X faces new challenges in Europe over AI training with personal data

After the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Austrian advocacy group NOYB has now filed a complaint against the social media platform X, accusing it of using personal data to train its AI systems without consent. In a statement, NOYB said it has lodged GDPR complaints with data protection authorities in nine countries to ensure the…

GenAI compliance is an oxymoron. Ways to make the best of it

GenAI compliance is an oxymoron. Ways to make the best of it

One of the biggest challenges CIOs face today is reconciling the constant pressure to deploy generative AI tools with the need to keep their organizations in compliance with regional, national, and often international regulations. The heart of the problem is a contradiction deeply embedded into the very nature of generative AI systems. Unlike the software…

Modern Warfare 2 Remastered mod soon makes classic 2009 multiplayer lobbies better than ever

Modern Warfare 2 Remastered mod soon makes classic 2009 multiplayer lobbies better than ever

A new mod for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is about to bring Modern Warfare 2’s iconic multiplayer experience back to life, taking you on a 2009-fueled nostalgia trip to the good ole days of CoD. If you were lucky enough to remember Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in its heyday, you probably…