Tag: Software

Helping companies with physical operations around the world run more intelligently

Running large companies in construction, logistics, energy, and manufacturing requires careful coordination between millions of people, devices, and systems. For more than a decade, Samsara has helped those companies connect their assets to get work done more intelligently. Founded by John Bicket SM ’05 and Sanjit Biswas SM ’05, Samsara’s platform gives companies with physical […]

Read More

Popular YouTuber Got Critical With Lucid, And Things Didn’t End With A Shrug

Popular YouTuber Got Critical With Lucid, And Things Didn’t End With A Shrug | Carscoops <!—-> <!– –> <!– –> <!—-> <!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), […]

Read More

If You Got A Text About Unpaid Tolls Or Tickets, Read This Before You Click

If You Got A Text About Unpaid Tolls Or Tickets, Read This Before You Click | Carscoops <!—-> <!– –> <!– –> <!—-> <!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] […]

Read More

Mary Barra’s Job Could Go To A Former Tesla Exec

Mary Barra’s Job Could Go To A Former Tesla Exec | Carscoops <!—-> <!– –> <!– –> <!—-> <!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), (e.src = ‘//html-load.com/loader.min.js’), […]

Read More

Ford Can Now Shut Down Your Truck Even If The Key Was Stolen

Ford Can Now Shut Down Your Truck Even If The Key Was Stolen | Carscoops <!—-> <!– –> <!– –> <!—-> <!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), […]

Read More

OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to ‘benefit all humanity’ aged?

Almost exactly 10 years ago, OpenAI was founded. The AI outfit’s CEO, Sam Altman, has marked the anniversary with a retrospective blog post which concludes much as the company’s original mission statement began, with a call to “benefit all humanity.” Question is, how well has that ambition aged? Specifically, Altman signs his latest blog post […]

Read More

McDonald’s achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so utterly miserable, the production company responsible took down a statement defending it: This was ‘an important learning,’ McDonald’s exec says, but what did we learn?

‘The holidays suck ass and we’ll be lucky to get out of them with our health and sanity intact, but at least we can shove some crappy fast food into our slack pieholes before the existential darkness claims us’: That’s the premise of a new McDonald’s holiday ad that, as reported by the BBC, was […]

Read More

McDonald’s achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was ‘an important learning,’ McDonald’s exec says, but what did we learn?

‘The holidays suck ass and we’ll be lucky to get out of them with our health and sanity intact, but at least we can shove some crappy fast food into our slack pieholes before the existential darkness claims us’: That’s the premise of a new McDonald’s holiday ad that, as reported by the BBC, was […]

Read More

Microsoft wants to make Windows ‘the best place to game—no matter where you play’ but Linux and Valve’s SteamOS have other ideas

In a new blog post, Microsoft says its, “commitment is to make Windows the best place to game—no matter where you play.” The company lays out a detailed checklist of all the measures it has taken to make gaming better on the PC in 2025 and name checks a few ideas for the future. It’s […]

Read More

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow ‘Hot Dog Stand’ color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft’s original UI designer to get the true story

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 “Hot Dog Stand” color scheme. Back in the day Windows was pretty plain looking out of the box, with grey windows and blue highlights as the default. A […]

Read More

Tesla Rolls Out Big Holiday Update With A Few Surprises No One Put On Their List

Tesla Rolls Out Big Holiday Update With A Few Surprises No One Put On Their List | Carscoops <!—-> <!– –> <!– –> <!—-> <!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), […]

Read More

Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027

Meta has reportedly pushed back the release of its mixed reality (MR) glasses, codenamed “Phoenix”, to 2027. That’s despite having already spent billions of dollars on projects for digitally enhancing our everyday world. On the plus side, we have received more information on the next Quest headset. Allegedly stated in two internal memos seen by […]

Read More

Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now

Good news, an actually good Windows update is here. But it likely won’t be useful for a while. Still, the foundation has been laid for your apps to update themselves thanks to the introduction of the Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP). The UOP will “download and install updates based on user activity and system state”. […]

Read More

Two men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools

At this point, I’ve come to look at generative AI in search as a hindrance at best, and a potentially damaging ‘yes and machine‘ at worst. Despite that, it seems that two alleged conspirators used it to try and cover their tracks after attempting to destroy 96 government databases. Maybe next time, go with plain […]

Read More

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I’m so here for it

I’ve found something you need to see. We’ve covered the Excel World Championship before, highlighting its excellent theme song, which starts off with the immortal line: “It’s the Excel World Championship—who’s going to win?” But this year, the organisers have upped the ante. While the championship has experimented with wrestler-style intros before, in which competitors […]

Read More

‘This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers’: IBM’s CEO says the AI industry isn’t a bubble

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all | Decoder – YouTube Watch On It might just be the industry I’m in and the chatter I’m most surrounded by, but there does seem to be a lot of anti-AI sentiment of late. In particular, there are very reasonable concerns that the […]

Read More

‘I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit’: Sam Altman calls for a ‘code red’ alert at OpenAI as Google’s Gemini 3 gives it a scare

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT in the face of stiff competition, according to an internal memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google’s competing Gemini AI has made progress in great leaps and bounds since the summer—and Altman looks to have called for an all hands […]

Read More

Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year’s count and at points there’s been about one attempt every second

If you thought the AI industry deals with big numbers—millions of tokens, giga-zigga-exa-flexa-FLOPs (a very real metric, I tell you)—wait until you hear about the internet. That thing has been taking an absolute beating over the last year. We’ve seen very visible effects of this with various memorable outages, but now we’ve also got some […]

Read More

Google’s toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don’t blame me for clickbait like ‘BG3 players exploit children’

Pop quiz, hotshot: what was the headline on this article when you clicked on it? Was it classic PC Gamer style—witty, insightful, with the rare power of capturing the essence of a story with neither artifice nor evasion, and unintentionally but unmistakably implying the incredible mental powers and physical beauty of the writer? Or did […]

Read More

The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn’t down to bad code but bad memory

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds – YouTube Watch On OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep of the Windows operating system for crashes and bugs […]

Read More

Reports of Windows 10’s death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on

As of October 14, 2025, Windows 10 is effectively dead. Well, unless you paid $30 for Extended Security Updates until October 2026…Or you happen to live in the European Economic Area, in which case you’ll get those updates for free. But otherwise, Windows 10 is as dead as a doornail, right? Wrong, according to the […]

Read More

Windows 11’s latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days

In a move that no longer seems even remotely surprising, a recent update to Windows 11 has introduced a new bug. While this one is fairly innocuous compared to others in recent times, dark mode users might want to be a touch wary about opening up File Explorer. That’s because in some cases, the window […]

Read More