These 6 settings may be slowing your Windows PC. Here's how to fix that

Windows includes a number of default settings that favor background activity over raw performance. Most people never revisit ...
MinnPost

Waiting to load: The struggle to address IT systems that may contribute to social services fraud

The Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 in St. Paul. Credit: Ellen Schmidt/MinnPost/CatchLight Local/Report for America Three weeks into the 2026 ...
Computer Weekly

Ofcom begins investigation of explicit image generation on Grok

Online safety regulator Ofcom has begun a formal investigation into X under the UK’s Online Safety Act, following what is being regarded as misuse of the Grok AI chatbot. The regulator said it was ...
Women's Wear Daily

AI Meets the Warehouse Loading Dock: Kargo Raises $42 Million

With fresh funding rolling in, one supply chain tech company is giving warehouse operators another set of eyes on every pallet passing through their loading docks. Advertising itself as “AI for ...
GitHub

garystafford/ai-image-cropper-v2

Intelligent image cropping tool with multiple detection methods including You Only Look Once (YOLO), DEtection TRansformer (DETR), Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR), Roboflow DETR (RF-DETR), ...
The Verge

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

Copilot’s limitations are ever-present, and it can lead you astray on even the basics. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is a reviewer ...
PC World

I swapped my $1,000 desktop for a $300 mini PC and regret nothing

Earlier this year, I impulse-bought a tiny, inexpensive desktop PC for research purposes. I didn’t expect it to change my entire computing setup. But here I am now, using the $319 Beelink SER5 Mini PC ...
Moviefone

Mr. Computer Image (1968) - Where to Watch

This compilation of four films demonstrates the capabilities of the ANIMAC analogue computer, the predecessor to the later Scanimate video synthesizer, which would kickstart a new era in motion ...
Moviefone

Mr. Computer Image (1968)

This compilation of four films demonstrates the capabilities of the ANIMAC analogue computer, the predecessor to the later Scanimate video synthesizer, which would kickstart a new era in motion ...
Ars Technica

Is it just me, or are Reddit and Imgur image/video loading like dial-up the past two days?

Subject says it all. Everything else seems to be fairly performant (did have trouble with Debian updates yesterday, tho.) I can SEE the images loading in like they used to back in dial-up days like a ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...