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In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abilities and its gushing, meandering replies. Then he…

If you’re of a certain age, you might remember mixtapes: cassettes made up of a series of tracks you or a friend think work well together, or otherwise enjoy. (They took some work to put together, too.) Digital music sort of killed mixtapes, but, in their place, came…

The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market have no reliable way to verify that what they’re purchasing is genuine. Veritas wants to solve both problems with a solution…

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Memphis city council members Pearl Eva Walker and Yolanda Cooper Sutton (and many other people online) say that snow is fake. Sutton recently posted a video on her Facebook page to demonstrate the artificiality of snow. Over footage…

If your Pixel phone is running out of storage space, there’s one thing you can do to reclaim GB, and it’s just a matter of disabling a single service. Original Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-disable-aicore-free-storage/

Are your headphones feeling old? Consider these tweaks before upgrading. Original Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/3-easy-ways-to-upgrade-your-headphones-free/

These Linux distributions deliver the compilers, flexibility, and stability serious development work demands. Original Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-distros-for-developers/

As ransomware declines, a new more dangerous digital parasite quietly rises to take its place. Original Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sleeperware-malware-sneaks-waits-ransomware-decline/

Swedish music streaming giant Spotify saw its user numbers peak last quarter, driven by its year-end “Wrapped” campaign, which rounds up stats and listening highlights for users, and new features on its free tier. The company said it saw a record 38 million new users in the fourth…

Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million Fund V focused on seed investing nationwide, which is a sizeable fund for a firm that focuses solely on early-stage investing. It perhaps showcases how the size of early-stage rounds has dramatically increased in the age of AI.  Ben Sun, a…