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Lance Whitney/ZDNET Meta’s Instagram is prepping the launch of its own video editor. In a Monday post, Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the details about Edits, a free app that offers a host of tools and settings to help creators spruce up their videos. Now available for preorder, the app is expected to launch for the iPhone on March 13 with an Android release coming soon after that. Based on Mosseri’s description and the App…

Zhou Yibao on Weibo A new foldable phone is about to hit the market, and it may be as thin as a phone can possibly be. ‘World’s thinnest foldable’ Oppo is billing its upcoming Find N5 (it will likely be the OnePlus Open 2 when it hits the US market) as the world’s thinnest foldable. That title currently belongs to the Magic V3 from Honor, which sits at just 4.35 mm unfolded. For comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Pixel 9…

ZDNET The idea of querying a remote LLM makes my spine tingle — and not in a good way. When I need to do a spot of research via AI, I opt for a local LLM, such as Ollama. If you haven’t yet installed Ollama, you can read about it my guide on how to install an LLM on MacOS (and why you should). You can also install Ollama on Linux and Windows, and, given that…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Microsoft is now automatically rolling out Windows 11 24H2 to all eligible and supported PCs, whether you like it or not. In a recent status update to its Windows 11 24H2 known issues and notifications page, the company announced that it has reached a new stage in the phased rollout of version 24H2. All eligible computers running the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2 will now gradually…

“Connectivity Link is utilizing the Gateway API, which was introduced by the Kubernetes community a little over one year ago, as well as integrating with different cloud service providers’ DNS solutions,” Chris Ferreira, senior principal technical product manager at Red Hat, explained to Network World. Red Hat Connectivity Link is not a mesh, Ferreira emphasized. It’s an Envoy plugin through which Red Hat is able to integrate different capabilities beyond the standard features of an…

ZDNET Turns out, you really can make a competition out of almost anything. A recent The New York Times piece peeled back the cover on the e-sport you didn’t know you were missing: the Microsoft Excel World Championship. The world’s greatest Excel-er Last month in Las Vegas, 12 men ran through a pro sports-style entrance tunnel at an e-sports arena, took the stage in front of a cheering crowd, sat at desktop computers, perused a…

ZDNET Open-source  artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone — and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry. On par with o1 On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announced the release of R1, the full version of its newest open-source reasoning model, which the company launched in preview in November. The company noted that R1 beats or is on par with OpenAI’s o1 in several math, coding, and reasoning benchmarks. Also: $450 and 19 hours is all it takes…

ZDNET An Apple AirTag can help you keep track of your most important items like keys, wallets, remotes, and even bicycles. However, bad actors can misuse AirTags to track people without their consent, casting a shadow on their use. Apple has made significant changes to how AirTags can be used. The company now provides clear disclosures to AirTag owners, reiterating that these trackers are only for tracking belongings and never for unwanted tracking of others….