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Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Decision to End Windows 10 Support A California man named Lawrence Klein has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over ending Windows 10 support. The decision to discontinue support for Windows 10 is alleged to be part of the company’s larger strategy to force its customers to purchase new devices optimised to run Microsoft’s suite of generative AI software.

ChatGPT’s Health Advice Sends 60-Year-Old Man to the Hospital, Raises Questions on Its Reliability ChatGPT’s health advice was the reason behind a man’s trip to the hospital, as per a new case study. The study highlights that a 60-year-old person was suffering from rare metal poisoning, which resulted in a range of symptoms, including psychosis. The study also mentions that the poisoning, identified as being caused by long-term sodium bromide consumption, occur...

OpenAI Increases GPT-5 Thinking Usage Limit After Backlash from Users, But There's a Catch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Sunday that the company is increasing the rate limit of the reasoning models for all users. The San Francisco-based AI firm said this new change will affect all model classes; however, this change is temporary. Going forward, the company stated that it will determine how to address this capacity trade-off, suggesting that those on th...

ChatGPT Users Find GPT-5 to Be Worse Than Older GPT-4o, Sam Altman Promises Fix ChatGPT users are not happy with OpenAI’s latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5. The new model was released on Thursday as a unification of the GPT-series and o-series. The San Francisco-based company said that they wanted to create a model that could do everything by itself so users did not have to use the model picker (the dropdown menu that sh...

Apple Must Allow Alternative Browser Engines on iOS by December Under Japan's New Mobile Software Competition Act Apple will be forced to allow browsers that do not function on the WebKit browser engine, under Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act Guidelines. The country's regulator dubbed the Cupertino company’s practice as anti-competitive as it blocked other browsers to offer the same performance as Safari. This will essentially allow other web browsers and in-app browse...

Microsoft Unveils Project Ire AI Agent That Autonomously Detects, Classifies Malware Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can autonomously analyse and classify malware. Dubbed Project Ire, the AI system is currently available as a prototype, although the Redmond-based tech giant has tested its capabilities in both controlled environments as well as in real-world scenarios. It can fully reverse engineer a softwa...