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Ollama on WSL Delivers Identical GPU Performance to Native Windows 11, Tests Confirm
Real-world testing shows that running Ollama’s local LLM inference on Windows 11 through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) yields virtually the same GPU throughput as the native Windows app,...
FreeBSD Charts Cautious Course on AI-Generated Code, Aims for Policy at BSDCan 2025
FreeBSD’s core team has begun formally investigating a policy to govern the use of generative AI in code and documentation, and will present its findings at the BSDCan 2025 developer summit,...
Ireckonu CEO: Hotels Pasting Guest Data into Public AI Chatbots Risk GDPR Fines and Broken Trust
Hotel staff are casually copying guest names, preferences, and booking histories into public generative AI tools like ChatGPT, and the practice is creating a ticking privacy time bomb. That’s the...
Microsoft Sharpens On-Device AI for AMD: Phi Silica 1.2508.906.0 Hits Copilot+ PCs
KB5066127 has landed. The latest component update for Windows 11 24H2 bumps the Phi Silica on-device language model to version 1.2508.906.0 on AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft announced in a...
Microsoft Unleashes MAI-1-Preview: 15,000 GPUs Power Its First In-House AI Model to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft this week publicly debuted MAI-1-preview, a homegrown large language model that marks its boldest move yet to decouple from OpenAI and put its own AI into Copilot. Trained on a staggering...
Microsoft Packs 1.1TB GPU Memory into Azure VMs for Unprecedented AI Training Scale
Microsoft has dropped a massive hardware upgrade onto Azure Machine Learning, launching ND H200 v5 virtual machines that cram eight NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into a single instance. That’s 1,128...
Why Local AI Stacks Still Can't Beat Copilot for Web Summarization – A Hands-On Test
In a practical head-to-head test, a Windows enthusiast attempted to swap Microsoft Copilot’s polished web summarization for a fully local AI stack using Ollama and the Page Assist browser...
Microsoft's $13 Billion Bet: How ChatGPT Became the Brain Behind Copilot—Without Microsoft Owning a Byte
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product. Let’s get that straight first: the conversational AI that has upended search, coding, and content creation was built, trained, and is operated entirely by...
Microsoft Tests COPILOT Formula in Excel: Native AI That Recalculates Automatically
Microsoft has started testing a highly anticipated feature in Excel: a native AI function called COPILOT that embeds generative AI directly into the spreadsheet's calculation engine. Announced for...
Switching the Geekom IT15 to Linux Unleashes a Snappy Workstation, But Intel’s Thermal Limits Cripple Sustained Performance
A quiet confession from a recent ZDNET hands-on: pulling a brand-new Geekom IT15 mini PC out of its box, wiping the pre-installed Windows 11, and loading Ubuntu Budgie transformed the machine from a...
How Linux Unleashed the GEEKOM IT15 Mini PC's Full Potential, Exposing AI Limits
When ZDNET’s hardware reviewer swapped Windows 11 for Ubuntu Budgie on the GEEKOM IT15, the compact desktop transformed from a sluggish experience into a snappy daily driver. The $899 mini PC,...
Inside Windows' AI Overhaul: Copilot, LLM Warnings, and the Privacy Uproar After Two Years of Change
Microsoft’s Windows operating system is undergoing the most radical redefinition since its inception, morphing from a traditional desktop environment into an AI-first platform where large language...