In addition to gobbling up most of the internet, ChatGPT now wants access to your OneDrive and SharePoint files, too. It makes sense. One of the earliest uses of AI was to summarize documents and folders of documents, and there’s only so many times you can ask it whether Spider-Man would beat Wonder Woman in a fair fight. It would be more productive for AI to collate and make sense of your own personal information, assuming you want to grant access to it. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT can now connect to your OneDrive or SharePoint document libraries, assuming you’re a paid ChatGPT Plus, Pro, or Team user who lives outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK (via Windows Central). You’ll obviously have to connect ChatGPT and give it permission to start poring over your cloud documents. Specifically, you’ll need to enable ChatGPT’s “Deep Research” function, which normally scours the web for information. Now, it appears you can specify which folders in Microsoft’s cloud services to make accessible to ChatGPT on a once-and-done basis. Click the “down arrow” to select either OneDrive or SharePoint, then log in to the Microsoft services. You can also go to ChatGPT Settings, then Connected Apps, Connectors, and click Connect next to Microsoft OneDrive (work/school). From a privacy perspective, you’re sharing the request with both OpenAI and Microsoft. “ChatGPT generates search queries from your prompts to locate relevant information within your connected Microsoft document libraries and sends these queries to Microsoft,” said OpenAI. Theoretically, this should work similarly to Microsoft Copilot for OneDrive, which launched a year ago. However, Microsoft still says the service is only available to users with a work or school account, and will be added to Microsoft 365 subscribers (Personal or Family) in the coming months. Microsoft also says that Copilot for OneDrive can only work with five files at a time. OpenAI doesn’t specify any limitations at all for ChatGPT. Things move fast in the AI world and it’s certainly possible that competition will spur Microsoft on. But for now, ChatGPT’s cloud integration looks like a more powerful option. Read...

We seem to have more video footage and still images than ever before, thanks to smartphones, GoPro cameras and the backlog of older ones collected across a lifetime. Managing all these formats, as well as making sure they look their best, can be a frightening proposition. Thankfully, Winxvideo AI is a powerful all-in-one solution that not only uses advanced Artificial Intelligence software to upgrade the quality of your content but can rescue old photos and footage too. The newly updated version 4.0 also brings huge improvements to speed, plus a special price offer, so you can save both time and money while you upgrade your photo and video library. Grab your discount on Winxvideo AI Powerful AI tools that upgrade your videos Winxvideo AI comes with an impressive array of features that can turn tired, old, blurry videos into something far more professional. For example, if you have footage of a significant event that was shot on an old device and only displays in low resolution, then the AI upscaling tool can cleverly convert it to 720p ,1080p or even 4K! It offers dedicated AI models for different video types – whether enhancing fine details, smoothing low-detail footage, refining animations, or upscaling photorealistic content. Digiarty Winxvideo AI significantly improves video quality thanks to its advanced AI models that remove noise, sharpen footage, and clean up compression artifacts caused by low light or poor equipment. This means that the unimpressive video you shot of an important occasion can instantly look better than you thought possible, and play back in glorious 4K with realistic detail, revealing textures like skin, hair, fur, and fabric with impressive clarity. Is a great shot spoiled by the camera shaking? No problem, the AI Stabilization capabilities in Winxvideo AI can fix that in only a few clicks. If you find that your video is jerky and stutters due to a low frame rate, that’s fixable too thanks to the AI frame interpolation that can boost frame rates for smooth footage or allow you to convert it to slo-mo instead. Alongside these tools there’s also a full suite of video editing features so you can put together your own films, remove noise from audio tracks, the option to convert video to and from a wide range of formats, plus the helpful ability to compress file sizes to make them easier to share over email or messaging services. Restore and enhance photos and images  It’s not only video that you can improve with Winxvideo AI, as it also brings serious enhancements to still images. The AI upscaler technology instantly improves low-quality images by up to 10x, removing noise and blurriness to give you pin-sharp results.If you want to enhance portraits, Winxvideo AI’s Face Recovery restores fine details like eyelashes, pupils, and skin texture, while removing blemishes. It works perfectly for both individual portraits and group photos. Digiarty The same thing works on old photographs, which you can scan and then make them look like they were taken yesterday. Should you want to modernize old black and white pictures, then the colorize feature in Winxvideo AI makes this incredibly simple, bringing old images to life with full color versions. Everything is handled by the simple-to-use software that does all the heavy-lifting for you. Winxvideo AI version 4.0 takes things to a new level Thanks to big improvements in two of the AI models used in version 4.0, the latest iteration of Winxvideo AI boasts incredible performance gains, with upscaling speeds increased by up to 80% over version 3.9! Digiarty Not only that, the finished results also come with enhanced quality and details too. All this, while the CPU/GPU usage has been lowered, so your PC won’t be punished while working on the video or images. Grab time-limited special deals for Winxvideo AI This year also marks the 19th anniversary of Winxvideo AI’s creators Digiarty, which is being celebrated by a superb deal on the software where you can buy it for only $29.95, saving you $40 off the normal price. Hurry, though, as this is a time-limited deal to accompany the Digiarty festivities. With so many useful tools to upgrade your video and photo library, there’s never been a better time to buy Winxvideo AI, and thanks to the special deal there’s never been a cheaper time either. Save $40 on Winxvideo AI View Offer Read...

The future is here! And in so many ways, it kinda sucks. A new graphics card costs more than a mortgage payment because billionaires are sucking up all the GPUs to boil the planet and make Hayao Miyazaki cry at the same time, and I still don’t have a Marty McFly hoverboard. But at least I can order fast food that literally flies to my door. That’s nice. In fact, I could order a flying curry delivery if I lived in Charlotte, North Carolina—specifically, within four miles of the Arboretum Shopping Center—where DoorDash is now offering food deliveries via drone. You can choose from a limited selection of local eateries, including Panera Bread, Matcha Cafe Maiko, and Joa Korean. The latest expansion is part of a partnership with drone delivery company Wing. Deliveries are also available in tiny slices of Dallas-Fort Worth and southwest Virginia, after a pilot (ha!) program in Logan City, Australia. Wing’s drones are autonomous, according to the press release, needing no human pilots. The drones are pretty beefy, too. Promotional photos show a design with no less than 16 propellers spread across two struts and two wings, and it tucks the fast food package up underneath the main body. The bags are loaded by humans while the drone is airborne, and the food is then lowered down on an extensible cable at the destination so the drone doesn’t need to land. It’s pretty neat, though I can think of a lot of ways it could go wrong. If you happen to live in Charlotte, NC (or the other introductory locations), you can check to see if your address is in the service area on Wing’s website. DoorDash is offering a $1 bowl of Panera mac and cheese for anyone who tries it out in the new area. Read...

Several users are now reporting that Google Search has swapped its classic “I’m Feeling Lucky” button for an “AI Mode” button instead. In some cases, the AI Mode button appears to the right of the search bar with the I’m Feeling Lucky button remaining in its usual spot. AI Mode is an experimental feature that offers an AI-generated search experience powered by Google’s Gemini 2.0 language model. Google spokesperson Ashley Thompson told The Verge that the search engine’s AI Mode is currently only visible to a limited number of users in Google’s experimental Labs environment. It’s unclear at this point when—or if—the redesign could become the new standard for Google Search. You can see some examples of the new design in the tweets below: I see this… AI Mode button next to Google Search. pic.twitter.com/zacHHA5AwH— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) May 10, 2025 Read...

Microsoft is laying off up to 3 percent of its global workforce, reports Bloomberg. With Microsoft having around 228,000 employees at the end of June 2024 (the latest reported number), that’d mean around 6,000 to 6,800 people being let go, according to CNBC. This confirms the rumors from last month. The layoffs are to take place in different regions across different employee levels and teams. “We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a company spokesperson told CNBC. Microsoft plans to cut 1,985 jobs at its Redmond headquarters alone, 1,510 of which will be in the office. One aim is to reduce layers of management, the spokesperson said. Unlike the previous job reduction from January 2025 that hit “low performers,” these layoffs are not performance-related. It’s currently unknown whether the Xbox games division will also be affected by the layoffs, but Microsoft has repeatedly cut jobs in the Xbox division in recent years. These job cuts don’t fit with the latest business figures. At the end of April, Microsoft reported a net profit of $25.8 billion for the quarter, which exceeded expectations, and also issued a positive forecast. Read...

Malware is a thing you just have to be aware of. But it’s pretty rare that it can actually damage your computer in a permanent sense — wipe the drive if you’re okay with losing local data, and you can generally get up and running in a day or two. But what if the microcode running on your CPU’s tiny integrated memory becomes infected? One security researcher says he’s done it. Christiaan Beek of Rapid7 says he has created a proof-of-concept ransomware that can hide inside a CPU’s microcode, building on previous work that emerged when Google required AMD processors to always return “4” when asked for a random number. He claims that modifying UEFI firmware can install an unsigned update to the processor, slipping past any kind of conventional antivirus or OS-based security. In a statement given to The Register, Beek says that Rapid7 won’t release the tool. However, the implications of this possibility are significant. If your computer’s CPU was infected to that degree, it would technically be possible to recover with official tools from Intel, AMD, et cetera. But it would be so involved, and your system would be so fully compromised, that you might as well just pull a Ron Swanson and yeet that thing. Malware that can bypass the encryption in UEFI firmware is already known, though it’s a lot more complex and involved than your typical dodgy download. CPU-level ransomware has not been seen “in the wild,” and it seems likely that when and if it emerges, it’ll be a state-level actor that exploits it first. That means your typical user probably won’t be targeted, at least immediately. Still, maybe keep a remote backup of your important files, just in case. Read...

Alongside the latest security fixes, Microsoft just added a number of new features to Windows 11 via the KB5058411 update. The new Copilot+ AI feature known as Windows Recall and the ability to use Phone Link in the Start menu have been mentioned in previous articles, so we don’t need to mention them again. One of the best improvements in the update is that Windows Search now supports AI, which means—among other things—that you can now use “natural language” in your search queries to find documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images. Get Windows 11 Pro for cheap Windows 11 Pro File Explorer also got some boosts, like how it’s now possible to view Microsoft 365 content directly in File Explorer (but requires you to pay for the service). File Explorer should also open files and unpack ZIP archives much faster, and as for the colors in the bars, the shades of blue and green are now darker than before. Other goodies in the update include Microsoft removing the blue-colored background for shortcuts on the desktop, which users complained about, as well as numerous bug fixes, which should mean that the risk of running into “blue screen” crashes has gone down. Update KB5058411 should automatically download and install to your system, assuming you’re on Windows 11 24H2. If it hasn’t yet, you should be able to jump-start it with a manual check in Windows Update. Further reading: Windows 11 24H2 is now auto-downloading on PCs Read...

Just as we were growing accustomed to the term “Max,” HBO Max will soon revert to its original name.  The head-spinning move, slated to take effect this summer, was announced Wednesday morning during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront event in New York City, and the idea behind the re-rebrand is, well, I’ll just let them say it:  “Returning the HBO brand to HBO Max will further drive the service forward and amplify the uniqueness that subscribers can expect from the offering. It is also a testament to WBD’s willingness to keep boldly iterating its strategy and approach—leaning heavily on consumer data and insights—to best position itself for success.” Well, it’s a testament to something, all right, if not Warner Bros.’s ongoing indecisiveness over what HBO Max—er, Max—ah, I mean HBO Max—should be.  The original decision to rebrand HBO Max as “Max” came after the 2022 merger between then-HBO parent WarnerMedia and Discovery, which formed a new media conglomerate called Warner Bros. Discovery.  Company execs wanted to merge Discovery’s more family-friendly fare with HBO’s signature adult programming, and the new name—Max—was intended to signal the streamer’s “broader content offering.” Put another way, while HBO and Discovery on their own offered “something for some people,” the new Max would serve up “a broad array of quality choices for everybody.”   But right away, the name “Max” just didn’t sit right. Streamers kept calling it “HBO Max,” new branding be damned, while Warner Bros. Discovery executives kept dithering over what was an “HBO” original and what was a “Max” original. For example, shows that were originally intended to be Max Originals, like the upcoming Harry Potter series and an It prequel called Welcome to Derry were abruptly switched to HBO Originals. The result? Confusion all around is not the thing you want when trying to establish a new brand.  Then, in late 2024, something even stranger happened: HBO and Max passed on new episodes of Sesame Street, the beloved kids’ show that had called HBO home since 2016. (Max—or HBO Max—will still keep existing Sesame Street shows in its streaming library.) Soon after, Max dropped several popular animated shows, including Teen Titans, Ed, Edd n’ Eddy, and The Looney Tunes Show. Suddenly, the family-friendly Max wasn’t looking so family-friendly anymore.  Now, by going back to the HBO Max brand, Warner Bros. Discovery seems to have gone full circle, embracing an HBO name that’s served it so well over the years—a name that’s represented high-end programming for grown-ups.  The company said so much in its press release announcing the re-rebrand today, noting that it is focusing on “programming that is working best, like HBO, recent box-office movies, docuseries, certain reality series, and Max and local originals, and de-prioritizing other genres that drive less engagement or acquisition.  In any event, welcome back, HBO Max. Hopefully you’ll stay awhile this time. Read...

When we reviewed LG’s UltraGear 27GX790A-B, we said the monitor’s “motion clarity will leave gamers gobsmacked.” The $1,000 price tag wasn’t exactly appealing, but now that the monitor has gotten a serious discount, we think it’s worth grabbing. This gloriously fast OLED gaming display is now just $800 on Amazon. It may not be one of those huge ultrawide monitors on the market—it’s “only” 27 inches—but it’s a fantastic pick for high-frame-rate gamers. This LG UltraGear delivers a 2560×1440 resolution on a vibrant OLED panel with a blazing-fast 480Hz refresh rate and 0.03ms response time. It’s all great, but that refresh rate in particular is chef’s kiss. This isn’t the first 480Hz OLED monitor by any means, but as our testing shows, it delivers “class-leading” motion clarity that most competitive gamers will be happy with. All those action-heavy scenes will be smoother than ever, and this display comes with both AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and Nvidia G-Sync for minimal screen tearing. No worries about connectivity either. You get two HDMI 2.1 ports, a DisplayPort 2.1, as well as two USB-A and a 3.5mm headphone jack. We’d have loved to see a USB-C on there, but it is what it is. OLED monitors aren’t cheap, especially the uber-fast ones. But if you wanted one, now’s the time to get it. The 20% discount is solid and it’s not every day you see a 480Hz OLED for only $800. If this one doesn’t suit your fancy for whatever reason, you should check out our other picks for the best gaming monitors we’ve tested. Save 20% on LG`s ultra-fast 27-inch OLED gaming monitorBuy now at Amazon Read...

Boy, it’s not getting any easier to afford a gaming laptop these days, huh? You might be considering a step down in power for your next purchase if you’ve got a tight budget, way down from the current crop of $3,000+ laptops. If that’s you, Nvidia might have a few cheaper options in store soon, in the form of RTX 5050 laptop GPUs. They’ll slide in under the RTX 5060 series, scheduled for later in May. Prolific leaker @momomo_us showed off two screenshots of Lenovo LOQ (the company’s more budget gaming brand) and Legion 15-inch laptops sporting 13th-gen Intel processors paired with not-yet-announced RTX 5050 cards. The pages were up on UK-based seller Laptops Direct, but appear to be down as of now. As VideoCardz.com notes, they’re packing 8GB of GDDR7 video memory, matching the laptop version of the RTX 5060 and boasting a 2GB upgrade over the mobile RTX 4050. We don’t know any other specs at the moment, but presumably it’ll be a step down from the 5060 in at least a few metrics. Less encouraging is the price. The cheaper of the two laptops was priced at £1,149.97. At today’s exchange rate, that would put its USD price at $1,531. Ouch, especially considering that RTX 5060 laptops are allegedly going to start at $1,100. The existence of more expensive models doesn’t preclude the existence of cheaper ones… but yeah, I wouldn’t hold out hope for getting a newer Nvidia card in a laptop that dips below the four-figure mark anytime soon. There’s always the Acer Nitro V (or as I like to call it, “Old Faithful”). Read...