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Pinned chats have arrived in ChatGPTYou can only pin up to three conversations at a timeYou can also rename conversations to help find themOpenAI has been on a roll as the holiday season approaches, releasing more and more updates to ChatGPT. We’ve had ChatGPT-5.2, better AI image generation, branched chats, new apps like Apple Music, and now… drum roll please… pinned chats.OK, pinned chats might not be the most exciting feature OpenAI has released in the last few days, but it’s a welcome addition because it helps you organize your conversations.It’s exactly what it sounds like: a way to pin…

Besides ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, the extensions harvest all conversations from Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Koi said the full description of the data captured includes: Every prompt a user sends to the AI Every response received Conversation identifiers and timestamps Session metadata The specific AI platform and model used The executor script runs independently from the VPN networking, ad blocking, or other core functionality. That means that even when a user toggles off VPN networking, AI protection, ad blocking, or other functions, the conversation collection continues. The only way to stop the harvesting is to disable the…

Holiday shopping is in full swing, which means it’s about time for the Steam Winter Sale. This go-around, Valve’s sale runs from December 18, 2025 through January 5, 2026, and includes discounts on some of this year’s hit games, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Silent Hill f and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.Clair Obscur is available for $40, down from its normal $50, Silent Hill f is 40 percent off, bringing its price down to $42, and the normally $70 Assassin’s Creed Shadows is selling for $35, a solid deal on what was somewhat of a comeback for the long-running Ubisoft series.…

Sometimes it takes a single moment to change your life. It’s easy to fall into the routine of going to work, procrastinating the things you really want to do and waiting for a day that will never come … until something happens to wake you up and make you start living. That’s the plot behind one of my favorite not-quite-holiday movies. Last Holiday is a 2006 romantic comedy-drama starring Queen Latifah as a department store clerk who is told she has a rare brain condition that will kill her in a few weeks. She decides on a fabulous vacation as a…

For all the hype around cloud storage, there are some significant benefits to storing and backing up your files locally. If that sounds good to you, I have a deal that makes it all affordable. Right now, you can get the Crucial X9 2TB Portable SSD at Amazon for £105.99 (was £124.99).This is a fantastic price for a reasonably sized and fast portable SSD that is more secure, provides fast access, and has no recurring subscription fees compared to cloud storage.If 2TB of storage isn’t the right fit for you, then other sizes are available and also discounted. 1TB can…

For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that reduces the process to typing a sentence. It’s not the first company to do so. While OpenAI had a conversational image-editing model in the works since GPT-4o in 2024, Google beat OpenAI to market in March with a public prototype, then refined it to a popular model called Nano Banana image model (and Nano Banana Pro). The enthusiastic response to Google’s image-editing model in the…

Creators and publishers have long worried about Meta’s ability to throttle links to outside content. Now, the company is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywall for creators on Facebook.Under the test, a Meta Verified subscription will determine how many links a creator can share another profile per month. According to a screenshot shared by social meda consultant Matt Navarra, creators in the test recently received a notification from Meta informing them that “certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified, including yours, will be limited to sharing links in 2 organic posts per month.”Meta is making…

Google’s new Gemini 3 Flash AI model is built for faster output at a lower cost, and functions as well as previous powerful reasoning models, Google said in a press release on Wednesday. According to benchmark tests, Gemini 3 Flash achieves PhD-level reasoning in the GPQA Diamond test, with a score of 90.4%, and achieved a score of 33.7% (without tools) in Humanity’s Last Exam. These are very difficult tests designed to push AI models and require expert-level knowledge. By comparison, Gemini 3 Pro achieved scores of 91.9% and 37.5%, respectively. Google said Gemini 3 Flash outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro, which…

Christmas is almost here and there’s just enough time to sneak in some last-minute shopping for that photography lover in your life. I’ve been busy scouring the web to bring you five completely utterly beautifully strange cameras that are sure to intrigue anyone interested in taking photos over the festive season.The great news is that these ever-so-odd cameras won’t break the bank – all five models come come in at less than $100 and offer maximum bang for your buck.Of course, cameras at this price point inevitably have some concessions. While they may not be able to go toe-to-toe with…

Since the original version of Windows 11 (21H2) became available in late 2021, and especially since my post on how to do so on unsupported hardware, I’ve received numerous requests for help overcoming a wide range of Windows 11 upgrade errors, particularly those with cryptic messages. This post offers easy-to-follow tips to help you handle those annoying situations. Dong’s note: I first published this piece on August 13, 2024, and updated it on December 16, 2025, to add additional tips. Related Stories on Microsoft Windows Here are a couple of those frustratingly cryptic Windows 11 upgrade error messages you may encounter.…