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HWiNFO 8.00 monitoring tool gained a built-in OSD display and lost Windows XP support

Developers have released a new version of monitoring software HWiNFO 8.00. This version dropped support for the outdated Windows XP OS - developers focused exclusively on x64 systems. Although 32-bit systems are still supported, the official installe...

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More than a quarter of YouTube's affiliate program members get paid by Shorts, but the payouts are negligible

One year after YouTube introduced monetization for Shorts videos, more and more creators are making money from this format. Over a quarter of creators in the YouTube Partner Program are now earning money through YouTube Shorts. With over 3 million cr...

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Telegram will allow limiting the authors of private messages for Ukraine, Russia and Belarus - Durov

Starting next week, Telegram will introduce the ability to limit the circle of those who write personal messages for residents of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Pavel Durov, the owner of the messenger, reported this. The option is allegedly being add...

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Claude 3 artificial intelligence model outperforms GPT-4 for the first time at Chatbot Arena

The large language model (LLM) Claude 3 Opus from Anthropic has surpassed GPT-4 from OpenAI for the first time on Chatbot Arena. "The king is dead," wrote software developer Nick Dobos in a post on X (Twitter), comparing GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opu...

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Twitch banned streaming gameplay to breasts and buttocks

The Twitch service has updated its community rules and banned the focus on breasts and buttocks in streams. According to the update, starting from March 29, "content that focuses on intimate parts of the body for a prolonged period of time will not b...

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While waiting for the X Elite: Google created Chrome for laptops with Snapdragon processors for laptops

Google has introduced a version of Chrome for Windows laptops running on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. According to statements from two unnamed partner companies, the Snapdragon version of Chrome demonstrates "significant performance improvement." ...

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MacPaw has released an updated ClearVPN with one-click online security and privacy activation

The Ukrainian company MacPaw has announced the release of a new version of the ClearVPN program - a VPN solution for anonymous connection. This version features an updated user interface. Now, to activate the service, you just need to press one butto...

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Telegram offers a free premium subscription. But in return, it requires you to disclose your phone number to strangers

Telegram offers a new way to get a premium subscription for free. To do this, it is enough voluntarily to provide your phone number to transmit one-time passwords (OTP) to other users. While this may seem attractive at first glance, in reality, it is...

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MPs propose to regulate Telegram and other information sharing platforms

A group of deputies registered a new bill No. 11115 in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine aimed at regulating the Telegram messenger. The document is entitled "Draft Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding the Regulation of Platforms for Jo...

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The interface of the "Format Disk" window in Windows, created as a temporary window, has remained unchanged for nearly 30 years

Among developers, there is a common rule - if something works well, don't touch it. Perhaps it is because of this rule that for almost 30 years one of the popular functions in Windows operating systems has not changed - the "Format" command window. A...

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Microsoft will improve text rendering in Chrome on Windows PCs

After several years of complaints, Microsoft has finally made changes to Chromium that should improve text rendering in Google's browser on Windows computers. By default, Chrome uses Skia text rendering with hard-coded values for contrast and gamma, ...

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Opera records a 164% increase in iOS users (spoiler: DMA helped)

The Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into force on March 7, among other things provides users from the EU with the freedom to choose their default browser. To comply with the new European legislation, Apple has added a new default browser selec...

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U.S. authorities demand Google reveal the identities of viewers of certain YouTube videos

The US federal authorities have requested Google to provide names, addresses, phone numbers, and actions of users of accounts who viewed specific videos on YouTube from January 1 to January 8, 2023. People who watched these videos without logging int...

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The workings of AI models can easily be distorted by buying $60 domains or editing Wikipedia - study

A group of artificial intelligence researchers recently discovered that for just $60, a malicious actor can interfere with the datasets generated by artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. Chatbots or image generators can give complex responses...

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X Twitter will be the new YouTube - X's video app for TVs

Recently, the publication Fortune reported that Elon Musk plans to launch the X Twitter social network as a video service on smart TVs. Researcher Nima Owji has published a video demonstrating the interface of the future application on X. The video ...

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