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Recall rush backfires on Microsoft • Windows AI tool ships to testers with huge security blunder, as Apple takes privacy high ground

Now ePaper’s coming after posters • Super-sized displays designed to replace paper prints

Best of Computex 2024 • From new Intel and AMD CPUs to a trio of handheld PCs, here are our top picks from a packed Computex 2024

How good are AI age estimates?

Who’s checking the age checkers? • Websites will soon be forced to check visitors’ ages. But as Barry Collins discovers, there are precious few checks on the age-verification services

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Eroding privacy is no longer bad Phorm • The shifting baseline of personal privacy makes yesteryear’s scandals look tame

AI wants our stuff. It can back right off • Meta wants to start mining public Instagram and Facebook posts. That’s a bad sign for the health of AI

We’re living in an AI world • Now that AI is everywhere, from the websites we visit to reviews of real-world places we eat, it’s time to treat it as a utility

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Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

PHOTOSHOP AI SECRETS FOR PROs • Generative AI isn’t a gimmick any more – it can be used for real-world professional workflows. Barry Collins explains how

GENERATING IMAGES FROM SCRATCH

REFERENCE IMAGES

REMOVE PEOPLE

REMOVE AND REPLACE THE BACKGROUND

COMBINE GENERATIVE AI SERVICES

LIGHTROOM’S AI TRICKS

SMART CITIES THE LONG HISTORY OF THEIR FUTURE • Nicole Kobie traces the roots of smart cities back to Victorian London, before taking us on a journey to the concept’s present and future

Run WINDOWS 10 Forever • Not won over by Windows 11? Nik Rawlinson explains how to move Windows 10 to a secure virtual machine that you can keep using after the upgrade

ACTIVATION AND LICENSING

Run your own personal cloud • Fed up with storage quotas and monthly subscriptions? Darien Graham-Smith finds out how to turn a Raspberry Pi into your own private cloud server

Cloud syncing with NAS

Next steps: RAID storage

Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED Copilot+ PC • A strong debut for both Copilot+ PCs and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip for Windows

Cocreator in action • One of Copilot+ PCs’ most interesting features is Cocreator, where you mix text prompts with your own sketches. Here, as they say, is one we made earlier: my text prompt was simply “Boat in stormy weather”. You can see my original sketch below with the AI-assisted versions underneath.

First look at other Copilot+ PCs • Both at Computex 2024 (see p12) and after, we’ve had the chance to get hands-on with a selection of Copilot+ PCs. Here are our favourites so far, with full reviews to follow soon.

Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405) • Despite the aggressive price, this premium laptop has power, battery life and style to spare

HP Spectre x360 16 (2024) • This sleek 2kg convertible packs everything you need, including a Core Ultra chip and optional Nvidia graphics

Razer Blade 16 (2024) • Still one of the sleekest and most beautiful gaming laptops around, but now with more effective cooling

Geekom A8 Mini PC • This compact powerhouse over-delivers in almost every area, but the Ryzen 7 version is better value

HP All-in-One 27 cr-0014na PC • A speedy and temptingly priced all-in-one PC with a fine 27in display – but note its...