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oh wow what a sight the face of a huge

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nerd eager for a fresh helping of tech news well I'm happy to oblige a

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Microsoft blog post published this morning made it seem like the company

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was announcing a time limit on their free upgrade offer for Windows 10 users

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the blog post has now been taken down but when it was live its title read free

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upgrade to Windows 11 for a limited time

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only it's a little too casual you might be screwed whoopsie it could be that

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Microsoft isn't planning to restrict free Windows 10 to 11 upgrades at least

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more than they already have through Hardware requirements but setting an

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upgrade deadline to coincide with the end of support for Windows 10 which is

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coming October 14th this year would mesh

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with the company's plans for 2025 which it called the year of the Windows 11 PC

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refresh in some kind of Oprah inspired

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manifestation exercise it also wouldn't be unprecedented Microsoft limited free

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upgrades to Windows 10 from systems running 7 and 8 to 1 year but kept

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allowing users to activate Windows 10 using keys from those older os's

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interestingly one reason Microsoft may have taken down the article is that the

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limited time upgrade thing wasn't referenced at all in the actual text but

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it did mention that office apps which are now called Microsoft 365 apps much

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simpler will will also be losing support on Windows 10 devices on the same day as

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the OS itself October 14th which means even if you pay the 30 bucks a year for

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extended security updates on Windows 10 the same can't be said for word and

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PowerPoint now Microsoft does say in a support document that the apps will keep

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working it's just well if you don't pay

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for protection you might encounter performance and reliability issues over

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time what can you do you is a rough neighborhood NVIDIA has published new

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performance charts for their RTX 50 Series gpus that shows just how

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important dlss 4 with multiframe generation is to NVIDIA's extremely bold

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claims of double the 40 series performance at CES last week compared to

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the old charts for the 5090 80 5070 TI

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and 5070 which you can find in our news sources Link in the description the new

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charts add a Resident Evil 4 Benchmark that was run without dlss and it looks

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like compared to their 40 series nons super counterparts the 50 series shows

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pure traditional rendering uplifts of around 30% for the 90 and 15 to 20% for

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the others which is not double and

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furthermore seems to scale linearly with the extra wattage each card is getting

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so you tell you're telling me this architecture is better I could do that

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in answer to complaints over their gpus relying on so-called fake frames to

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achieve high performance NVIDIA seems to be saying yeah soing what apparently 80%

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of RTX players turn on dlss sure a lot

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of the time it's on by default but the point is upscaling and frame gen have

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pretty much already been normalized so it makes total sense that NVIDIA is

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trying to tell reviewers the right way to review their AI cards that happened

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to pixels on your screen rumors are pointing to RTX 5090 reviews going up on

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January 24th with 80 reviews on the 30th

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unless that was hallucinated by chat gbt I mean the biggest fake frame of them

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all speaking of AI Google has dropped

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its separate Gemini add-on for Google workspace and will be adding Gemini

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powered features for Gmail docs meet Etc

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to existing workspace plans for free

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alongside a small price increase Microsoft answered Google by relaunching

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yet another thing called co-pilot co-pilot chat is free for commercial

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customers with the ability to create and work with task specific agents on a pay

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as you go basis co-pilot is of course based on Tech from open AI who also just

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announced a couple of new agentic tools paying chat gbt users can now ask it to

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track tasks and set reminders to say

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give me a daily weather update just make sure you set another reminder to ask

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chaty BT if that update was a hallucination it's going to rain today

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is it though hm thinking oh nah it won't

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you're the best if you're not stoked on all of this AI stuff I guess you must

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hate local news because open AI also just announced they're funding news

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Outlet axios to develop local newsrooms

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in four new locations in the US and Google just made a deal with the

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Associated Press to swap content and tools sure it just came out that meta

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and probably every other AI company intentionally trained models on pirated

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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

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bits dessert I'm this is weird I'm sorry the FBI says they had no choice but to

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hack thousands of computers in the US to remove malware planted there by a

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china-backed hacking Group which is almost a shame because their name is

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Mustang Panda I feel like they should get some

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leeway for that the FED said that owners of infected PCS were typically unaware

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of the infection so stands to reason they wouldn't be aware of the FBI

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breaking into their computer to fix it for them you're welcome although they

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did apparently tell internet service providers of affected IP addresses that

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they should inform their customers the disclosure of the operation comes a year

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after the FBI did something similar to De infect routers being used as part of

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a botnet the FBI is just hacking stuff all the time for good for good reasons

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Samsung is apparently pre-empting Apple's iPhone 17 air with their own

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Galaxy s25 slim as detailed by leaker on

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leaks and news site smart Prix they showed renders of the phone which will

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reportedly launch in May at a thickness of just 6.4 mm which will enable owners

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to uh what Jimmy a lock with it why do

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we want this the White House is continuing to go ham with the

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restrictions on China before President Biden leaves office adding more

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companies to a list of entities affected by trade restrictions the Biden

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Administration also finalized its proposed rule that will effectively ban

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Chinese cars and Chinese car components from the US in what I have to assume is

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a fit of rage Chinese drone company DJI

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which could be facing its own ban at some point removed its Geo fencing

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feature that stops drones from flying in no fly zones the week after one of them

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crashed into a plane fighting the California

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wildfires so that's where International

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politics are at right now the FTC Illinois and Minnesota have sued John

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Deere over the company's anti-consumer repair practices alleging the tractor

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manufacturer has Monopoly power over the repair market and I really hope this is

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a wakeup call for John Deere because what they they think they're Apple I can

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understand artsy Baristas using the Genius bar but you're going to tell

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Farmers they can't fix stuff you make tractors and a coder going by a ding

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2210 has baked a playable instance of

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Doom 1993 into a PDF file yeah they

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apparently did this thanks to the JavaScript support in pdfium the engine

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that renders PDFs in chromium based browsers it supports WD movement and

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other keyboard controls you just have to click the text box first and then you're

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free to play Doom in perhaps the worst way imaginable but the best way to get

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more Tech news is to come back here on Friday when we'll probably have news

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about the switch 2 Nintendo did not reveal the reveal for the switch 2 today

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probably because everyone talked about it so much and they're shy so damn it

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sh it always it always comes right for

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me just just settle down no