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Hey Strangers, #microsoft #laptop #windows11"Facepalm: Microsoft markets Windows 11 as the fastest and most secure version of the operating system, but users often complain about it being slow, bloated, and buggy. A new speed test now suggests that there may be more truth to those complaints than Microsoft would like to admit. YouTuber TrigrZolt ran several tests pitting six generations of Wi...

Hey Strangers, #crypto #scam #coin Is bags.fm safe?— Unfortunately, not likely.🚨 Gridinsoft blocks this website because it was classified as phishing. As of January 14, 2026, Bags.fm has a very low trust score of 1/100 according to our algorithm. Through the security analysis, it has been identified as a potential phishing. Our detection system has found multiple risk indicators, and we recommend...

Hey Strangers, #stock #sin #2026 Investing in the stock market often brings to mind themes of growth, innovation, and long-term value creation, but beneath the surface lies a niche segment that has historically delivered outsized returns: sin stocks. These are companies operating in industries often considered socially or morally controversial, including alcohol, tobacco, gambling, weapons manufac...

Hey Strangers,#ai #elonemusk #grokDegrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them. After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their con...

Hey Strangers,#ai #ces #techComments (All New)The annual Consumer Electronics Show is now well underway with Las Vegas once again hosting a sprawling sneak peek at the tech that will shape the industry throughout 2026.The Verge is on the ground at CES 2026, covering the biggest announcements, press conferences, and gadgets and we’ll be sharing hands-on impressions and takeaways of the best new tec...

Hey Strangers,#ai #ice #filminginpublic The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the American public that identifying roving bands of masked federal agents is “doxing”—and that revealing these public servants’ identities is “violence.” Noem is wrong on both fronts, legal experts say, but her claims of doxing highlight a central conflict in the current era: Su...

Hey Strangers,#valve #ai #gaming What is maladaptive daydreaming? Discourse is swirling around Steam's AI labelling after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney doubled down on calling out the platform's handling of such assets. In response to someone claiming the category is unnecessary, an artist at Valve says it's crucial for allowing people to make informed purchases. Matt Workman, a cinematog...

Hey Strangers,#HR #job #shrm SHRM said it plans to appeal the decision. "Today's decision does not reflect the facts, the law, or the truth of how SHRM operates," the trade group said in a statement. "We have acted with integrity, transparency, and in full alignment with our values and obligations." SHRM was sued in 2022 by Rehab Mohamed, who worked at the trade group as an...

Hey Strangers, #ai #tech #new Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for. Users can access the new setting by conducting a search on DuckDuckGo and heading to the Images...

Hey Strangers, #fact #assassinscreed #bestgame Assassin’s Creed Shadows was Europe’s best-selling new game of 2025, beating competition from Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, Mario Kart World and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.In data shared with The Game Business ahead of Gamescom 2025, 71 million PC and console games have been sold across the major European markets so far this year (data up unti...

Hey Strangers, #jeffreyepstein #ai #tech In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized. To look for a way forward, a small group of scientists gathered for “The St. Thomas Common Sense Symposium.” AI pioneer Marvin Minsky was the central presence, along with h...

Hey Strangers, #OnlineSafetyAct #gta6 #kidsPrepare to present your ID to play your preferred video games, not to purchase a drink. One of the first big games to be impacted by the age verification that Microsoft has formally started enforcing on Xbox in the UK may be Grand Theft Auto VI. Players will soon have to present official identification to prove their age to use all Xbox social features, i...

Hey Strangers, #OnlineSafetyAct #internet #kidsWell, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you know? It’s turned out to be exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster that everyone with half a brain predicted it would be. Le...

Hey Strangers, #microsoft #fired #ai "Microsoft is thriving," said CEO and chairman Satya Nadella in a new statement following a round of layoffs earlier this month that cost 9000 employees their jobs. The statement, shared publicly and with Microsoft employees, reiterates the company's mission, with Nadella doubling down on the importance of AI.First, he acknowledged the layoffs. &q...

Hey Strangers, #airbnb #drama #ai Airbnb guest says images were altered in false £12,000 damage claimWoman wins apology and refund of almost £4,300 after claiming host’s photos were digitally manipulatedAirbnb has apologized to a woman after an apartment host falsely claimed she had caused thousands of pounds’ worth of damage and used images she says were digitally manipulated to back up his alleg...

Hey Strangers, #genz #jobs #6figures A new survey release by Indeed and Harris Poll shows that nearly 40% of Gen Z and millennial workers (ages 18-34) said they would leave a job because of political differences at work, and 40% said they would leave if their CEO expressed political views they disagreed with. Overall, 28% of workers would consider resigning over political differences, and 32% migh...

Hey Strangers, #Ai #school #america ust two years ago, Lorraine He, now a 24-year-old law student, was told to avoid using AI for her assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on ChatGPT, students had to buy a mirror-site version from a secondhand marketplace. Its use was common, but it was at best tolerated and more often frowned upon. Now, her professors no longer warn students ag...

Working From Home is Hurting Your CareerHey Strangers, #career #jobs #workfromhome I’m a big fan of having the option to work from home, and I believe every company should offer this amenity to its employees. Sure, there are some jobs in which this isn’t possible—I can’t imagine an ER doctor operating out of his living room—but keeping employees locked up in an office building every hour of every...

Hey Strangers, #games #kickstarter #indie MADRID/LISBON, April 28 (Reuters) - Power started returning to parts of the Iberian peninsula late on Monday after a huge outage brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, grounding planes, halting public transport, and forcing hospitals to suspend routine operations. Spain's Interior Ministry declared a national emergency, deploying 30,000 po...

Hey Strangers, #gronk #elon #southafrica A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrelated topics on X. Grok, which competes with other chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is directly integrated into the socia...

Hey Strangers, #games #kickstarter #indie Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with “rising costs” and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. If a creator’s project is affected by tariffs...

Hey Strangers, #sinners #movie #spoiler From Ryan Coogler, director of "Black Panther" and "Creed"-and starring Michael B. Jordan comes a new vision of fear: "Sinners." Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back==================...

Hey Strangers, #ubisoft #assassinscreed #review The incredibly successful launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows has continued well past its release date, with Ubisoft's latest remaining on top of the U.S. sales chart for the third straight week. For 2025, Shadows now only trails the year's biggest hit, Monster Hunter Wilds, which has been crushing sales records for Capcom since its releas...

Hey Strangers, #rust #american #ai AI experts are feeling pretty good about the future of their field. Most Americans are not. A new report from Pew Research Center released last week shows a sharp divide in how artificial intelligence is perceived by the people building it versus the people living with it. The survey includes responses from over 1,000 AI experts and more than 5,000 US adults, rev...

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