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12 Android tips you shouldn’t miss from 2024 – Computerworld
Ah, the holidays. No matter what manner of winter celebration you prefer (I’m a Festivus man myself), late December is a fine time for kickin’ back and collecting your thoughts for the coming year. That means it’s also a fine time for contemplating that crazy little computer in your pocket and the steps you can take to make it even…
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5 wizardly ways to integrate web apps with Windows – Computerworld
While Windows is a powerful operating system for productivity, so much of what we do with work these days revolves around the web. Whatever your browser of choice — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or any of the more contemporary options — there’s a decent chance you spend a fair amount of your workday working with apps inside that environment. That’s…
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12 eye-opening Google Android app tricks from 2024 – Computerworld
Over the past year, I’ve shared some splendid suggestions for digging in deeper to those apps and uncovering all sorts of buried treasures — genuinely useful options and adjustments that’ll help you work faster and more efficiently and generally just have a better all-around Android experience. It’s a lot to take in, and it’s all too easy to miss (or…
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Arm awaits verdict in high-stakes licensing suit against Qualcomm – Computerworld
In October, Arm cancelled Qualcomm’s license to the Nuvia ALA. It also demanded the destruction of Nuvia designs developed prior to the merger. Clearly, a verdict in favor of Arm would put Qualcomm in a tight corner, and also a who’s who of tech companies — Microsoft, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung — currently using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon designs.…
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Arm’s high-stakes licensing suit against Qualcomm ends in mistrial, but Qualcomm prevails in key areas – Computerworld
This is where things became a bit muddy. Why did Arm decide to sue over a relatively small sum, and why did Qualcomm refuse to concede? This week in court, a wide range of arguments and counter arguments were laid out, mostly saying that each company believed the other was trying to sabotage its business. Make Qualcomm great again As…
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WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – Computerworld
“At this point, I have real concerns about the impact of Matt Mullenweg’s words and actions on the overall image of open source software,” she added. “Even if he feels that WP Engine’s actions are unethical and the court is wrong, his actions are clearly having an impact on the WordPress ecosystem, including his own business. It seems self-destructive.” To…
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How to perform a clean install in Windows 10 and 11 – Computerworld
Figure 1: Select Remove everything and proceed to the next step. Ed Tittel / IDG The Reset this PC tool advances to the next set of options, which allow you to grab files from Windows Update in the cloud (“Cloud download”) or reuse local Windows OS files on the current system (“Local reinstall”), as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2:…
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Pioneering the future of law enforcement – Computerworld
In the era of digital transformation, public safety stands at a critical crossroads. Law enforcement agencies globally are under increasing scrutiny to enhance transparency, efficiency, and trust within their communities. Against this backdrop, Kazakhstan’s “Digital Policeman” initiative has emerged as a shining example of technological innovation in policing. The initiative leverages state-of-the-art technologies like smart badges and military-grade mobile devices,…
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If Meta prevails against Apple in Europe, AI surveillance will be a feature, not a bug – Computerworld
We will immediately enter a dangerous world of AI-assisted digital surveillance, one that needs to be resisted, not just because it’s a deeply unpleasant world to be in, but also because such an ecosystem will be bad for innovation, undermine trust, and threaten every aspect of the digital transformation. Every platform will be forced to open up, and all your…
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Anthropic’s LLMs can’t reason, but think they can — even worse, they ignore guardrails – Computerworld
The LLM did pretty much the opposite. Why? Well, we know the answer because the Anthropic team had a great idea. “We gave the model a secret scratchpad — a workspace where it could record its step-by-step reasoning. We told the model to use the scratchpad to reason about what it should do. As far as the model was aware,…
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