oh wow what a sight the face of a huge
nerd eager for a fresh helping of tech news well I'm happy to oblige a
Microsoft blog post published this morning made it seem like the company
was announcing a time limit on their free upgrade offer for Windows 10 users
the blog post has now been taken down but when it was live its title read free
upgrade to Windows 11 for a limited time
only it's a little too casual you might be screwed whoopsie it could be that
Microsoft isn't planning to restrict free Windows 10 to 11 upgrades at least
more than they already have through Hardware requirements but setting an
upgrade deadline to coincide with the end of support for Windows 10 which is
coming October 14th this year would mesh
with the company's plans for 2025 which it called the year of the Windows 11 PC
refresh in some kind of Oprah inspired
manifestation exercise it also wouldn't be unprecedented Microsoft limited free
upgrades to Windows 10 from systems running 7 and 8 to 1 year but kept
allowing users to activate Windows 10 using keys from those older os's
interestingly one reason Microsoft may have taken down the article is that the
limited time upgrade thing wasn't referenced at all in the actual text but
it did mention that office apps which are now called Microsoft 365 apps much
simpler will will also be losing support on Windows 10 devices on the same day as
the OS itself October 14th which means even if you pay the 30 bucks a year for
extended security updates on Windows 10 the same can't be said for word and
PowerPoint now Microsoft does say in a support document that the apps will keep
working it's just well if you don't pay
for protection you might encounter performance and reliability issues over
time what can you do you is a rough neighborhood NVIDIA has published new
performance charts for their RTX 50 Series gpus that shows just how
important dlss 4 with multiframe generation is to NVIDIA's extremely bold
claims of double the 40 series performance at CES last week compared to
the old charts for the 5090 80 5070 TI
and 5070 which you can find in our news sources Link in the description the new
charts add a Resident Evil 4 Benchmark that was run without dlss and it looks
like compared to their 40 series nons super counterparts the 50 series shows
pure traditional rendering uplifts of around 30% for the 90 and 15 to 20% for
the others which is not double and
furthermore seems to scale linearly with the extra wattage each card is getting
so you tell you're telling me this architecture is better I could do that
in answer to complaints over their gpus relying on so-called fake frames to
achieve high performance NVIDIA seems to be saying yeah soing what apparently 80%
of RTX players turn on dlss sure a lot
of the time it's on by default but the point is upscaling and frame gen have
pretty much already been normalized so it makes total sense that NVIDIA is
trying to tell reviewers the right way to review their AI cards that happened
to pixels on your screen rumors are pointing to RTX 5090 reviews going up on
January 24th with 80 reviews on the 30th
unless that was hallucinated by chat gbt I mean the biggest fake frame of them
all speaking of AI Google has dropped
its separate Gemini add-on for Google workspace and will be adding Gemini
powered features for Gmail docs meet Etc
to existing workspace plans for free
alongside a small price increase Microsoft answered Google by relaunching
yet another thing called co-pilot co-pilot chat is free for commercial
customers with the ability to create and work with task specific agents on a pay
as you go basis co-pilot is of course based on Tech from open AI who also just
announced a couple of new agentic tools paying chat gbt users can now ask it to
track tasks and set reminders to say
give me a daily weather update just make sure you set another reminder to ask
chaty BT if that update was a hallucination it's going to rain today
is it though hm thinking oh nah it won't
you're the best if you're not stoked on all of this AI stuff I guess you must
hate local news because open AI also just announced they're funding news
Outlet axios to develop local newsrooms
in four new locations in the US and Google just made a deal with the
Associated Press to swap content and tools sure it just came out that meta
and probably every other AI company intentionally trained models on pirated
books and probably pirated everything else but but what you hate local news ah
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TechLink still hungry hm what's the tech news without a quick
bits dessert I'm this is weird I'm sorry the FBI says they had no choice but to
hack thousands of computers in the US to remove malware planted there by a
china-backed hacking Group which is almost a shame because their name is
Mustang Panda I feel like they should get some
leeway for that the FED said that owners of infected PCS were typically unaware
of the infection so stands to reason they wouldn't be aware of the FBI
breaking into their computer to fix it for them you're welcome although they
did apparently tell internet service providers of affected IP addresses that
they should inform their customers the disclosure of the operation comes a year
after the FBI did something similar to De infect routers being used as part of
a botnet the FBI is just hacking stuff all the time for good for good reasons
Samsung is apparently pre-empting Apple's iPhone 17 air with their own
Galaxy s25 slim as detailed by leaker on
leaks and news site smart Prix they showed renders of the phone which will
reportedly launch in May at a thickness of just 6.4 mm which will enable owners
to uh what Jimmy a lock with it why do
we want this the White House is continuing to go ham with the
restrictions on China before President Biden leaves office adding more
companies to a list of entities affected by trade restrictions the Biden
Administration also finalized its proposed rule that will effectively ban
Chinese cars and Chinese car components from the US in what I have to assume is
a fit of rage Chinese drone company DJI
which could be facing its own ban at some point removed its Geo fencing
feature that stops drones from flying in no fly zones the week after one of them
crashed into a plane fighting the California
wildfires so that's where International
politics are at right now the FTC Illinois and Minnesota have sued John
Deere over the company's anti-consumer repair practices alleging the tractor
manufacturer has Monopoly power over the repair market and I really hope this is
a wakeup call for John Deere because what they they think they're Apple I can
understand artsy Baristas using the Genius bar but you're going to tell
Farmers they can't fix stuff you make tractors and a coder going by a ding
2210 has baked a playable instance of
Doom 1993 into a PDF file yeah they
apparently did this thanks to the JavaScript support in pdfium the engine
that renders PDFs in chromium based browsers it supports WD movement and
other keyboard controls you just have to click the text box first and then you're
free to play Doom in perhaps the worst way imaginable but the best way to get
more Tech news is to come back here on Friday when we'll probably have news
about the switch 2 Nintendo did not reveal the reveal for the switch 2 today
probably because everyone talked about it so much and they're shy so damn it
sh it always it always comes right for
me just just settle down no