Category Archives: Definitions

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USB Trojan Horses

USB flash drives are spreading malware, and infecting other drives. We call that worm behavior, and apologies to night-crawlers may apply. And in Microsoft Windows 11 yet another monthly feature update is badly named. It’s not Windows Backup, it’s a documents convenience copy on OneDrive, but it has that ‘Windows Backup’ name anyway. More on horses, worms, and what kind of backup really protects your computer, in the free December 2023 PC Updater News.

Stupid AI Cat Tricks

I asked the Stable Diffusion AI to create an image of a cat with a computer, in a home office. Clearly, the training sample set includes very large cats, and computer monitors that wrap around the side of a melted keyboard. Buy why does the cat have a volume control near its right eye?