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Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is causing users to experience errors with some Microsoft 365 authentication features. As the company revealed earlier today in an incident alert published in the admin center, users may experience errors during self-service password resets and when viewing or registering authentication methods in MySignIns, while admins may be unable to add multi-factor authentication (MFA) sign-in methods to some…
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Is ChatGPT Down? Users Report Widespread Outage
ChatGPT is currently down and users are unable to generate a response on the ChatGPT website or app. Users report that ChatGPT is showing ‘Error in message stream’ and refusing to process any requests. OpenAI’s official status page documented the incident six hours ago, saying that the outage affects ChatGPT, Sora, and APIs. At 6:07 am PDT, OpenAI’s status page…
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iPhone users say Mail app is suddenly freezing with iOS 18.5 — here’s a fix you can try
Since Apple rolled out iOS 18.5, a growing number of iPhone users have reported issues with accessing their inbox as the Mail app is getting stuck on a blank white screen. Several comments on Reddit and the Apple Support Community describe being unable to view emails in their inboxes as the app is either glitchy or unresponsive. The underlying cause…
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Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive
OpenAI has announced new updates for ChatGPT which allow users to record and transcribe meetings, as well as connectors for cloud tools such as Google Drive. The new transcription tools put ChatGPT directly into competition with Otter.AI and Zoom’s built-in tools, while the cloud connectors target the AI productivity tools built into offerings from Google and Microsoft. As part of…
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Meta Apps Have Been Covertly Tracking Android Users’ Web Activity for Months
I don’t expect Meta to respect my data or my privacy, but the company continues to surprise me with how low they’re willing to go in the name of data collection. The latest such story comes to us from a report titled “Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android.” In short, Meta and Yandex (a Russian technology company) have…
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Microsoft eases Edge prompts for Windows users in Europe amid DMA pressure
Microsoft is reducing (but won’t eliminate) prompts to use Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 and 10 for users in the European Economic Area. Users can now set a different default browser more easily, and the change applies to more link and file types. These updates are part of changes rolling out in June 2025. Microsoft is making significant changes to…
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ChatGPT rolls out Memory upgrade for free users
ChatGPT’s memory feature is now better and capable of referencing past conversations for free accounts. In an update to its support document, OpenAI quietly confirmed that it has rolled out a new version of Memory that better remembers and references your past conversations. This feature was previously available for paid subscribers, but it’s rolling out to everyone today. “On June…
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Do you trust AI? Here’s why half of users don’t – Computerworld
The smaller, faster o4-mini model did worse, hallucinating 41% of the time on PersonQA and 79% on SimpleQA. The newer GPT-4.5 model, released in February, performed better, with a 37.1% hallucination rate on SimpleQA. OpenAI publishes the latest results of these and other tests on its Safety evaluations hub. “The increase in hallucinations by reasoning models may very well be…
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Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in Europe
Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways. New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) include…
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Our users like advertising in AI search results – Computerworld
Google has started introducing ads in its AI-generated search results, called “AI Overviews” and “AI Mode,” in the United States. The ads are placed below the AI-generated summaries and are labeled as “sponsored.” The company claims that users find these ads helpful. Bleeping Computer writes that according to a Google support document, internal data shows that users appreciate the ads…
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