Software

Amazon bins an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees, because they were burning through too many costly tokens

'There are two 'P's in the word Google' says the company's upgraded AI Overview, as an old LLM issue rears its ugly head

YouTube says it's making AI-generated content labels more prominent—and to help you see them, here they are zoomed in

'There's a lot of rogue attempts at this': Amid AI music remixing plans, Spotify chief says he wants the company to be 'the one that's legal' and 'the one that's controlled'

'Technology is never neutral': Pope Leo XIV criticises 'culture of power' driving AI race, and refuses to be taken in by consciousness claims

'I don't think we're going to have the kind ​of jobs apocalypse that some…advocate or talk about': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong' about AI-induced job cuts

Apple legend Steve Wozniak makes history again: Actually gets applause talking about AI at commencement speech

'What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part': Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and covers

AMD is investing $10 billion+ into Taiwan tech to 'accelerate next-gen AI infrastructure', with some fancy new toys on the way

Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it

'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities

Mozilla says 'Microsoft goes too far' with Copilot, right before reassuring that you can turn off Firefox's 'AI enhancements'

'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge

'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams

84% of you rightly practice good desktop icon hygiene, but it turns out 16% of PC Gamer readers are just plain monsters

Microsoft announces plans to give you more control over the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu

'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque, they declare an end to 'insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft'

I've spent 30 years with Microsoft but Linux and Pop! OS might have converted me

A killswitch has been pitched for the Linux kernel that could shut down vulnerable functions while users wait for patches

'Apple does this and y’all love it': Microsoft defends new Low Latency feature in Windows 11

Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'

Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it

Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren't in the game: 'I have no idea what this s**t is about'

Roblox promo codes for June 2025: Get free stuff with the latest active codes

Valve rolls out the red carpet for its new Steam controller with battery warnings, gamepad quick-chat and—bonus!—remote download controls

This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve's most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)

Roblox to introduce new kid accounts in its quest to appear less of a child safety nightmare

15 more Disney games delisted from Steam, including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and 1997's Outlaws

A malware dev has committed a magnificent self-own after an AI-coded malicious package leaked its own GitHub private token

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'

Interpol's 'Operation Ramz' has arrested over 200 people for phishing scams, malware threats, and security breaches

There's a devious hacking scheme that involves a hijacked Microsoft Teams account, a fake IT helpdesk, and a covert infection tool

Hackers are using fake job interviews to load applicants' PCs with a password-stealing Trojan

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

State cybersecurity agencies around the world are advising extra care over home routers as they could be used in 'China-nexus' covert networks

Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes

A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency