OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on As traditional web search falters, OpenAI offers an AI-based alternative.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on

As traditional web search falters, OpenAI offers an AI-based alternative.

Home users can only buy one year of extra Windows 10 updates—for $30 per PC End users can't get the same three-year extension as businesses and schools.

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Consumers won’t be offered all three years of extended Windows 10 security updates

Home users can opt in for a single year of updates at $30 per PC—not 3 years.

Will the new Nintendo Music app lead to more DMCA takedowns from Nintendo? Subscription music app gives Nintendo new reason to crack down on third-party music uploads.

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Will the new Nintendo Music app lead to more DMCA takedowns from Nintendo?

Subscription music app gives Nintendo new reason to crack down on third-party music uploads.

Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze Conversational search and hazard reporting and more detailed maps, all thanks to AI.

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Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze

Conversational search and hazard reporting and more detailed maps, all thanks to AI.

If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices Taking away NOAA weather and climate data could raise food prices, among other things.

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If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices

Taking away NOAA weather and climate data could raise food prices, among other things.

A year after Broadcom’s VMware buy, customers eye exit strategies Ars speaks with users and partners unhappy with Broadcom's changes.

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Disgruntled customers discuss quitting VMware

Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.

Microsoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments Xbox hardware sales dropped 29 percent, but that barely made a dent.

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Microsoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments

Xbox hardware sales dropped 29 percent, but that barely made a dent.

Slivered onions are likely cause of McDonald’s E. coli outbreak, CDC says To date, 90 sickened, 27 hospitalized and one dead in the multi-state outbreak.

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Slivered onions are likely cause of McDonald’s E. coli outbreak, CDC says

To date, 90 sickened, 27 hospitalized, and one dead in the multi-state outbreak.

Intensely demanding AAA game Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac The game will take "full advantage of Apple silicon," CD Projekt Red says.

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Apple silicon Macs will get their ultimate gaming test with Cyberpunk 2077 release

The game will take "full advantage of Apple silicon," CD Projekt Red says.

When you make lunch for your coworkers—and accidentally cause a mass poisoning Testing found S. aureus in a homemade noodle dish caused the illnesses.

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Person accidentally poisoned 46 coworkers with toxin-loaded homemade lunch

Testing found S. aureus in a homemade noodle dish caused the illnesses.