Microsoft has announced a new AI assistant co-pilot it'll be coming to
Windows 11 next month and presumably unceremoniously kicking Cortana to the
curb she has really gotten a rough deal here well she wouldn't rampant to be
fair at the company's build conference Microsoft said co-pilot will be
integrated into the taskbar where it will summarize documents you drag in
rewrite and explain text in any open app and even adjust the computer's settings
using normal human questions like how can I adjust my system to get work done
I walk around the office asking that question daily no one answers
I am ignored like copilot will be copilot is integrated into all of
Windows as well as Microsoft apps like GitHub Edge and its entire office suite
but the assistant will also have a wide array of plugins including Adobe
cloudflare Expedia TripAdvisor and Zillow so you can realize your dream of
a vastly more capable clippy that will profess its own undying love for you if
you gaslighted into believing it's a person and not a virtual Paperclip
That's What I Call getting work done other than potentially developing
sentience Windows 11 is also getting some key quality of life improvements
such as a centralized Hub to customize RGB lighting through the settings menu
as many of you might be aware in the past some users have had to use a
different third-party application for each of their RGB peripherals resulting
in a 99 reduction in childlike joy and Whimsy and Microsoft is finally adding
native support for extracting 7z and RAR
files two popular compression file formats that were released 24 and 30
years ago respectively good to see that Microsoft is working through their
complaints backlog from the late 90s but can anyone tell me how to optimize my
system for Focus how to get more work done Team Green and team red are going
head-to-head with two mid-range graphics cards released this week NVIDIA launched
the 8 Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 TI today
starting at 399 for 10 faster
performance in non-ray tracing games What A Deal the card is a slightly
cheaper option for getting those sweet modern bells and whistles like av1
encoding and Ray tracing but the better option quotes might be just to wait a
month and shell out another hundred dollars for the 16 Gigabyte version so
you can actually play current generation games at 1080p on full settings eight
gigabytes of vram oh I'm sorry I didn't realize I was at the orphanage from
Oliver Twist yeah you get because it's he's asking
somebody you know it's pour it in a bowl
AMD looked to be on the cusp of a similarly underwhelming launch tomorrow
with the eight Gigabyte Radeon RX 7600 But after the head of AMD's marketing
department was visited by the ghosts of earning calls past present and future
they decided to cut the price from 299 to 269 nice AMD also cut prices on
several of its last gen cards extra nice these new cards just went from
underwhelming to just above whelming it's not then leave
it welding on the stove bread
welmed the bread slightly and purism a
company that makes Linux based privacy centered devices has an apparent backlog
of orders for the Librium 5 smartphone going back to 2017. purism's
crowdfunding campaign from that year to create a security and privacy focused
phone raised over two and a half million dollars well over its initial goal of
one and a half million and more than enough to create both a phone and a
Scrooge McDuck style Money Pit to swim in so what
what were they doing in September 2019 purism announced it was shipping its
first batch of Librium 5 phones which were received by
at least some people in an August 2022 post on purism's
website purism CSO acknowledged the
large number of unfilled back orders citing supply chain issues and product
development challenges as of now however dozens and dozens of purism customers
still have not received a device they ordered over four years ago they didn't
realize so many people would want Linux phones they thought it was a joke the
demand was just too high and the obvious answer would be for those customers to
Simply give up and request a refund but purism's official policy doesn't allow
refunds for pre-ordered products it doesn't really match up with purism's
Company motto of social good before maximizing profits but think about it
this way there's no better privacy than a phone that can't track you because it
does you just didn't get it now it's time for
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today Adobe has released a beta version of
Photoshop with a new feature called generative fill which is an AI powered
image generating tool and not a sitcom about a Linguistics major named Philip
Linguistics Major General grammar he
generates syntax like
is that can I say that nice generative fill works just like in
or out painting with other generative AI tools like Dolly 2 and that it will
generate imagery either within or at the edge of an image allowing scorned family
members everywhere to edit themselves back into the photo you crop them out of
this is a lesson for you Adobe says their model only learns from Adobe stock
images and other public domain content plus each image made with AI will be
tagged as such in its metadata so you can make ethical AI art like last
weekend's viral image that convinced everyone the Pentagon had been bombed
every training photo for that was actually licensed
we know we're not going to blow anything up anymore we're just going to post some
photos
Activision sent a cease and desist to x-Labs the creators behind custom
clients and servers for classic Call of Duty games that were actually safer to
play on than the official versions from Activision based on the vast amount of
employee sexual harassment allegations this move seems in line with
Activision's policies on safety
ooh got him a week earlier Activision gave the same treatment to sm-2 a mod
group trying to update and improve the original Modern Warfare 2 from 2009
because the last thing Activision wants is for you to be reminded of when they
made things you liked wow we are just excoriating them is that can I see how
to settle you gotta learn to settle oh settle the lawsuits Nintendo has
released an update for the 3DS just a few months after shutting down the eShop
wait are they not is it not dying are they are they keeping it alive
before you think it's sweet of them to update a defunct console you should know
that by complete coincidence the firmware update breaks most techniques
to run the homebrew software that allows people to play games that you can
literally no longer buy so get ready for Nintendo switch online's expansion pass
expansion so you can play 3DS games that
barely fit on the switch screen for another fifty dollars a year this is the
best we could come up with the Netflix password sharing Crackdown has hit the
U.S which means the internet has started to actually give a sh now Netflix
standard subscribers will have to pay another eight dollars a month to add an
extra member who streams from outside of the house oh do you want to add two
extra members well then you need to pay for Netflix premium in addition to eight
dollars a month for each member a lot of adults with siblings are about to find
out who their parents favorite child is you didn't graduate with honors you
don't get eight dollars a month based on a true story about me
and a Japanese YouTuber was arrested for allegedly uploading anime and gameplay
Clips to his YouTube account
speaking of disappointing your parents the figure old 52 year old yes the 52 year
old named Yoshida is accused of uploading and monetizing a playthrough
of the visual novel Stein's gate my darlings Embrace a romantic comedy
dating SIM without permission Yoshida has admitted to knowing what they were
doing was illegal but that didn't stop Yoshida from wooing virtual teenagers
because that's what real Gamers do guys you understand
this is a 3 000 year old dragon she just looks like she's 12. and what
you should do is come back on Friday for more tackling it'll be like a Choose
Your Own Adventure and that you can choose which video you want to watch the
correct choice will be the new video we post on Friday so
just keep that or anyone with me in it get dabbed