November 28, 2024

After a couple of recent social media posts, which claimed Microsoft was training AI on user’s Word and Excel data sent users into a frenzy, Microsoft has responded. According to the software giant, it was all just a big misunderstanding, much like an incident with Adobe earlier this year. One of the first claims that Microsoft was scraping Word and Excel to train AI came from a Tumblr blog post. In the post, user meretu8 claimed

First and foremost, let us at HotHardware wish everyone who celebrates turkey day a very happy Thanksgiving! Now, before the family arrives for a feast of cooked bird and all the fixings (which hopefully doesn’t descend into a food fight over politics), feast your eyes on these gaming laptop deals we’ve rounded up, with some great discounts appearing right before Black Friday. One such deal is this HP Victus laptop that’s on sale for $429.99

TL;DR: Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has achieved the biggest launch in the franchise’s history, excelling in total players, hours played, and multiplayer matches. Despite its success, the game faces challenges with cheaters, prompting Activision’s RICOCHET Anti-Cheat to issue over 19,000 bans while optimizing its AI systems for faster enforcement. Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is widely considered one the best entries the long-running franchise has seen in years, from its

Intel has been adamant that it plans to continue developing discrete GPUs after getting back in the game with Arc Alchemist, which at the time ended a long hiatus dating all the way back to Larrabee. The next big release is Battlemage, and in no uncertain terms, Intel’s Tom ‘Tap’ Peterson teased in a recent Architecture All Access video, “Battlemage is next.” The video in question is the fourth in the Architecture All Access series

TL;DR: 2K Games has removed its launcher from all games on Epic and Steam, allowing direct play without additional software. This change affects titles like Bioshock and Civilization, with no impact on save files. The move eliminates unnecessary login steps, and 2K has no plans to reinstate the launcher. There was a time when every major publisher decided that its PC releases would require signing into and using a custom launcher, which would still be