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Duke’s experience with practical, people-centered AI offers a clear, early blueprint for what the rest of higher education—and many workplaces—will face: rapid gains in everyday productivity and workflow, paired with urgent questions about verification, governance, training, and the preservation...

Verifying a downloaded Windows 10 22H2 ISO with its SHA‑256 checksum is the single most reliable way to confirm the file is complete, authentic, and untampered before you burn it to USB, mount it in a VM, or run setup on a live machine. Background / Overview Microsoft distributes Windows ISOs...

It’s still possible in 2026 to download an official, unmodified Windows 10 ISO directly from Microsoft — and doing so safely matters more than ever now that Windows 10 has reached its formal end of support. This article explains the official direct‑download path, the simple browser workaround...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

Recent reporting that ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) routinely invent or mis‑attribute sources is not clickbait: a peer‑reviewed study and an international audit both show troubling failure modes that should reshape how researchers, journalists, educators and everyday users treat...

NetApp’s name is on a short Business Wire / Globe and Mail dispatch announcing it as the winner of the “2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year — SDC Canada” category, but a deeper inspection of public records and vendor press channels shows the claim is not yet independently verifiable and...

VeriPark is reported to have been named to Microsoft’s elite Inner Circle for AI Business Solutions for the 2025–2026 cycle, a recognition that — if confirmed — would mark a continuation of the company’s long-running partnership with Microsoft and its steady profile in financial‑services-focused...

Generative AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot can accelerate data analysis — but only when the person using them understands the code they produce, checks the results, and controls the data fed into the system; used blindly, they’re a fast path to plausible-looking but flawed numbers...

NewsGuard’s latest audit has landed as a clear, uncomfortable signal: the most popular consumer chatbots are now far more likely to repeat provably false claims about breaking news and controversial topics than they were a year ago, and the shift in behavior appears rooted in product trade‑offs...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...

Kansas City legal professionals who postpone practical, governed adoption of AI in 2025 risk ceding measurable efficiency gains to competitors — but adoption must be paired with concise policies, hands‑on pilots, and documented ethics training to manage confidentiality, discoverability, and IP...

A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect...

A striking staff or wire photograph labeled "Panthers Texans Football" ran on a regional page alongside a short, weather‑style caption — a small editorial choice with outsized implications for verification, metadata stewardship, and audience perception. Background Local and regional newsrooms...

Windows 11 has become the unlikely backdrop for a fresh, portable icebreaker: a curated set of “Two Truths and a Lie” examples aimed at adults that riffs on feature changes, licensing confusion, and the security talk that dominates every IT corridor — an approach recently republished on...

Every day you get curious — and increasingly, your first stop is an AI chatbot instead of a search page. The short primer published on News Ghana captures that shift: chatbots promise plain‑language, real‑time answers without the SEO noise of a link pile, and they respond far better when you ask...

DakotaJxde Leak Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction? In a digital age where every sensational headline vies for attention, a provocative question is making the rounds: Did DakotaJxde leak this herself? A recent report on Truth or Fiction has reignited debates over whether the well-known TikTok...

This is a message for Thumper 1337x. Hi Thumper can you verify if I need to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2020 before I install your upload Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2023? Thank you in advance Yobbo in Hong Kong .

I have an activation code for my software but it no longer works. My repair disk does not solve the problem. I paid full price for the software, Microsoft is not interested in helping. The message I get is my software is not legitimate. Is there any way to verify my activation code?

I have access only to the Linux machine, and I need to check if windows updates are not blocked on the network, is there any sets of IPs/Domains that I could ping or any other way to verify it?