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Why Windows 7 Took Forever To Load If You Had a Solid Background(2025-05-01 00:00:09)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista's annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves. Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem a...
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Microsoft Puts Brakes on AI Spending as Profit Increases 18%(2025-04-30 20:02:22)

After 10 consecutive quarters of rising AI-related investment, Microsoft has put on the brakes, spending over $1 billion less than the previous quarter (source paywalled; alternative source). Despite the slight slowdown, Microsoft posted stronger-than-expected results with $70 billion in revenue and...
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Microsoft CEO Says Up To 30% of the Company's Code Was Written by AI(2025-04-30 15:00:03)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" -- meaning AI -- during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta's LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. From a report: Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how ...
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Gen AI Is Not Replacing Jobs Or Hurting Wages At All, Say Economists(2025-04-30 10:00:12)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Instead of depressing wages or taking jobs, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have had almost no wage or labor impact so far -- a finding that calls into question the huge capital expenditures required to create and run AI ...
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After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth(2025-04-30 05:00:13)

Kosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus probe, is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in mid-May after orbiting Earth for 53 years. Gizmodo reports: The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a...
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