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OpenAI has made its ChatGPT Search tool free, accessible to all logged-in users, significantly increasing access to a capability previously exclusive to premium members.

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/2634740/openai-expands-chatgpt-search-to-all-users-challenging-googles-dominance

Bypass charging helps extend the lifespan of your smartphone with little to no effort, and it's now available on newer Pixel devices. Here's how the feature works, which Android phones support it, and how to enable it.

https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-bypass-charging-support-3509066/

Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today’s systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google says its new “breakthrough” Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319879/google-willow-cant-break-rsa-cryptography

Google has released an update to the Privacy Dashboard for Android devices, bringing a new 7-day view of permissions-related activity.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/google-rolls-out-extended-privacy-dashboard-view-to-android-15-devices

Google Quantum AI founder H. Neven wrote that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes, indicating that parallel universes exist and “we live in a multiverse.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/google-says-its-new-quantum-chip-indicates-that-multiple-universes-exist/

Linux Mint is an impressive Linux distribution. The user experience has been getting better with subtle and some significant changes.

https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-redefining-ux/

Cloudflare has shared some statistics regarding just how much everyone around the world has been surfing this year — and their figures show a huge increase in internet traffic globally.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2551768/global-internet-traffic-grew-significantly-in-2024-and-thats-not-all.html

Starting today, Google Wallet can carry a digital copy of your US passport and use them at Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) checkpoints.

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/google-wallet-can-now-hold-your-us-passport-215133683.html

Grind. Roll. Ignite. Inhale. Exhale. Smile.

The first wave of Apple Intelligence features didn’t include much in the way of AI image generation. But that’s changing in a big way very soon with the release of iOS 18.2.

https://9to5mac.com/image-tools-in-ios-182-these-new-apple-intelligence-features-are-coming/

The Windows tool Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with a zero, which is considered a secure deletion method. Here's how to use it.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2530346/this-obscure-windows-tool-securely-and-utterly-deletes-hard-drive-data.html

Cybersecurity professionals sprayed their screens with coffee this week as Microsoft claimed, "security is our top priority," as it talked up its Secure Future Initiative and explained how Windows could be secured.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/microsoft_talks_up_beefier_windows/

A new open-source AI system, OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules for how researchers access, evaluate, and synthesize scientific literature. It even outperforms much larger proprietary models like GPT-4o.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/openscholar-the-open-source-a-i-thats-outperforming-gpt-4o-in-scientific-research/

Signal Messenger update brings support for Windows on Arm devices running Qualcomm processors, enhancing the encrypted messenger app's speed and responsiveness.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/signal-the-secure-messenger-finally-joins-the-arm64-club-for-windows-11

This is amazing. Noticeable performance improvement. Thank you. 🙂

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The headline security feature announced at Ignite 2024 is Quick Machine Recovery. The feature allows IT admins to execute targeted fixes from Windows Update remotely, even if a PC is unable to boot.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/cant-boot-your-windows-11-pc-this-new-feature-can-fix-your-system-remotely-helping-prevent-another-crowdstrike-bsod-disaster

If you Google it, you’ll find every site suggesting that you restart your phone regularly. Most sources agree that a reboot every week or two is sufficient, although some even say daily is even better. But is it?

https://www.androidauthority.com/restart-phone-regularly-3495653/

Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam.

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/shielded-email-googles-latest-tool-for.html