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Microsoft Copilot is now powered by GPT-5 too, mostly

August 8, 2025
Microsoft has added GPT-5 to Copilot, a day after adding OpenAI’s open-source GPT model to its local services. GPT-5, which also powers ChatGPT, is now live within Copilot, at copilot.microsoft.com, Microsoft said Thursday. Presumably the same model will eventually power the Copilot application running on top of Windows PCs, but the Windows app appears to use just the older GPT-4 model for now…
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How to get Windows 11 cheap (or even for free)

August 7, 2025
Windows licenses cost a lot—painfully so. Paying $139 for Windows 11 Home or $200 for Windows 11 Pro feels expensive when Linux is free. That much money can easily swallow a third of a budget PC build. Yet with less developer support for Linux, Windows is a necessity for…
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Windows Recall still screenshots sensitive data at times, test shows

August 7, 2025
When Microsoft introduced Recall for Windows 11, data privacy and protection experts were horrified. Why? Because Recall continuously takes screenshots of your screen and saves them on your computer, even if those screenshots contain sensitive data like passwords and credit card details. Back then, Recall was still in testing, and the backlash was enough to get Microsoft to postpone its…
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How to get Microsoft Office 365 for dirt cheap as a student

August 6, 2025
Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. And as a student, the new cost of $100 per year for a Microsoft 365 Personal account is pretty expensive—but fortunately, you may not have to pay to use the…
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Sonos owns up to “limited” reports of overheating Roam speakers

August 6, 2025
Interest in Sonos’s smallest portable speaker is heating up—literally—following word that at least one of the units came close to catching fire. A Sonos user on Reddit posted images of the “singed” and “bulging” USB port on the back of his Roam, a portable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker that doubles as a smart speaker. Sonos has acknowledged the problem, admitting to a “very low”…
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Whoa! There’s a 7-inch tablet in the palm rest of this new laptop

August 4, 2025
Multi-screen laptops are a thing, and have been a thing for a while. I vividly remember the ThinkPad W700DS, which had a pull-out, secondary screen years before people started packing USB monitors in their bags. But what about a laptop with a secondary touchscreen, in a convenient place, and a lot smaller than any similar design I’ve seen? The SZBox DSX156 uses a standard 15.6-inch 1080p screen…
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