We're over a month into the new year, 2025 is off to the races, and players around the world will start to have a whole new swath of games to play. Whether they're new releases to kick off the year, or they're new pick-ups from the holiday season, surely there will be a new, interesting crop of games at the top of Steam's charts, right?

A successful and effective project management relies on clear communication, organized tracking, and the ability to quickly identify potential roadblocks. While there is no shortage of project management tools out there, many prefer Excel due to its familiar setup and flexibility. One of Excel's most underrated features for project management is conditional formatting. This simple tool allows you to visually represent project data, keep tasks on track, and see which ones are falling behind.

On Tuesday, US District Court of Delaware judge Stephanos Bibas issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup.  Filed in 2020, it’s one of the first cases that will deal with the legality of AI tools and how they are trained, often using copyrighted data scraped from somewhere else without license or permission.Similar lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI giants are currently winding their way through the courts, and they could come down to similar questions about whether or not the AI tools can claim a “fair use” defense of using copyrighted material.However, as the judge noted, this case involved “non-generative” AI, not a generative AI tool like an LLM. Ross shut down in 2021, calling the lawsuit “spurious” but saying it was unable to raise enough funding to keep going while caught up in a legal battle.As reported previously by Wired, today Judge Bibas wrote in his decision, “None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water” against accusations of copyright infringement, and ultimately rejected Ross’s fair-use defense, relying heavily on the factor of how Ross’s use of copyrighted material affected the market for the original work’s value by building a direct competitor. Thomson Reuters sued over Ross’s use of its Westlaw search engine. Westlaw indexes a good deal of material that is not copyrightable (like legal decisions) but also intersperses it with its own content. For instance, Westlaw headnotes — which are summaries of points of law written by human editors — are a signature feature meant to make the very expensive Westlaw subscription attractive to lawyers.In building a legal research search engine, Ross turned the annotations and headnotes “into numerical data about the relationships among legal words to feed into its AI,” wrote Bibas. The ruling describes how, after Thomson Reuters rejected its attempt to license Westlaw’s content, Ross turned to another company, LegalEase, and purchased 25,000 Bulk Memos of questions and answers written by lawyers using the Westlaw headnotes that it used for training data.Ross CEO Andrew Arruda claimed the Westlaw data was “added noise” and that its tool “aims to recognize and extract answers directly from the law using machine learning.” However, after having “compared how similar each of the 2,830 Bulk Memo questions, headnotes, and judicial opinions are, one by one,” the judge said the evidence of actual copying was “so obvious that no reasonable jury could find otherwise.”

Trying to record your gameplay without losing some performance can be a challenge if you don't currently have the best gaming PC on the market. While it's almost impossible to ensure you don't lose any FPS while recording, there are some ways in which you can record your games at higher settings while losing as little performance as possible.

Cloud storage is a great way to keep files synced and accessible across different devices. But with so many hardware manufacturers and companies offering their own cloud services, you may find that your online storage is scattered across different accounts. Is there a way that you can access them through a single hub?

Well, it's that time of the month again: Patch Tuesday. Every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft unleashes a wave of updates for all of its supported Windows systems. And while this month wasn't incredibly exciting, there are some interesting tidbits to enjoy.

The laptop market is riddled with compromises, even if you look at the out there. You either get a that's easy to take anywhere, or a powerful that's much harder to carry around. As a solution, the market has come up with external GPUs, which can give you the power of a gaming laptop on demand.

Anyone with a smart pet knows how wily they can get around food. All it takes is for them to learn that certain behaviors get them fed, and they suddenly act as if they're starving to every family member despite being fed twice in the last hour. One person figured out a cool system to defeat their dachshund's wily ways by alerting people when they're about to give the dog unintentional seconds (or thirds).

There are just way too many great laptops available in 2025, which is a good problem to have if you're in the market for something new. If you're someone that needs a laptop that has a lot of power, is incredibly sleek and light, has a fantastic display, and doesn't cost all that much — then we think the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x might just be the thing. For a limited time, Best Buy is knocking $400 off the original retail price, bringing it down to one of its lowest prices yet.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is a console that, to be frank, a ton of people want to get their hands on. Before the console's official announcement, many were searching for any leak they could get their hands on. It seemed as though I was seeing something new about the upcoming system every day leading up to Nintendo's announcement.

You thought your common aquarium-style PC gaming setup was cool? Check out this absolute unit of an immersive system. Built for World of Tanks, one of the most popular classic warfare simulation games, 马鹿blyatdesigned one of the most incredible setups I've witnessed. The team is renowned for its physical simulation projects and this is certainly no exception. So, what's so special about this tank simulator? It's a multi-crew setup with a full tank build, simulated main barrel firing with soda bottles, and incredible feedback through audio and movement.

Alienware makes some of the best gaming monitors that you can buy in 2025. This model here is another top choice that we'd recommend, especially if you're on a tight budget. For a limited time, you can score the Alienware AW2724D for a fantastic price, with a discount that knocks 22% off, dropping it down to just $180.