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our first story today is really an attempt by me to correct a series of

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weird articles that are circulating right now if I'm wrong feel free to

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correct me in the comments it'll be like a fun game where everyone's feelings get

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hurt last week Microsoft called the TPM 2.0 Hardware requirement for Windows 11

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non-negotiable but this week a bunch of Reddit posts and articles went up

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claiming Microsoft had flip-flopped and we're now allowing the installation of

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Windows 11 on PCS that don't meet the official requirements now I've seen some

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chatter on this topic in the last little bit so my newsy sense went off it was

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very unpleasant it seems like the source of this idea is this PC World article

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published on Monday which claims Microsoft is issuing instructions for

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installing Windows 11 on incompatible PCS PC World says this article is

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translated from the original version that appeared on their German language

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sister site PC velt titled Microsoft AED

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install Windows 11 of incomp

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PS they didn't have to yell I'm not sure why they're so angry but both articles

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link to this Microsoft support article which says nothing about allowing such

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installation and definitely doesn't give instructions for installing Windows 11

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it actually only warns about compatibility issues and the lack of

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security updates you'll get if you do install Windows 11 on on unsupported PCS

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which you have been able to do using various workarounds since Windows 11

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launched this support article has been up for quite some time I referenced it

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in our episode from a week ago so I guess you could say this whole thing is

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my fault who put that in there day four

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and five of what turned out to be the 12 week days of open AI have come to pass

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with day Four's announcement being chat gpt's canvas notebook like feature now

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being made available to all users even those on the free tier for day five open

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ey's big announcement was the previously announced chat GPT integration with

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apple intelligence which was also announced by Apple today in what can

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only be described as the big Tech equivalent to regifting but it's worse

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it's like apple gave someone a gift and then open AI took it and wrapped it up

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again and gave it back here I got you something open AI did give out an Easter

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egg during the live stream showing a cal C event for super secret AGI on their

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iPhone you know just a just a little tongue-and-cheek way to tease the thing

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Sam mman says will Usher in a post job Society it's just fun as for Apple that

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chat GPT integration is part of software updates rolling out to iOS iPad OS and

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macOS with support for Apple's image playground so you can make little

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cartoon pictures and send them to your friends stunning is it ciran it's fine

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iPhone users can also make genen mooji now to rectify the fact that no one

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thought to make a DJ octopus Emoji among

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the arguably more useful changes Apple Mail is finally getting categorization

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and there are some tweaks to the reimagined photos app that will

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hopefully save its designers from being lynched Apple intelligence also now

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supports localized English dialects in more countries including the UK and

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Canada so I'll now be telling Siri to order me a pop and a double double from

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Timmy's or she can take off like a hoser as soon as I get an iPhone not to be

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left out Google announced their first Gemini 2.0 model flash which they say

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outperforms Gemini 1.5 pro at twice the

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speed etc etc wake me up when they're self-aware while we're not there yet all

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of Google's main demos today involved agents ones that can find out what the

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meta is for the game you're playing an agent that will go browse the web for

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you to say find the contact email for a list of companies but for now only in

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your active browser tab so it can keep checking if you're watching like a

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six-year-old user user watch this wow

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good job there's an agent for controlling a robot and a new coding

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agent called Jewels you know she's got tattoos but the most interesting demo to

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me was deep research a tool kind of

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similar to notebook LM but instead of just summarizing sources you've uploaded

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it will search the web compile sources on a a topic and then write a report but

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what does school even need students for anymore get them out of there Google

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also published an updated demo of its project Astra assistant deciphering

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laundry machine controls which is a heck of a thing to trust an AI with but it's

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definitely not a pre-made demo this time

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we stopped doing that now I'm using these prototype glasses to test project

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Astra handsfree sorry you're using what now why didn't you bring that up before

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rolling out a couple things one is the experimental Windows mixed reality link

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app for Quest headsets letting you set up multiple virtual monitors in 3D space

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the other is nearly 400 PC games being

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added to the Xbox app on Windows along

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with a new home layout and the jump backin section from the Xbox console

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dashboard I mean if that doesn't entice PC Gamers to use the Xbox app then I

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don't know but it won't General Motors has cut off funding for cruise the

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self-driving taxi startup it acquired back in 2016 it'll absorb Cruz's assets

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and employees into GM's own division working on autonomous driving features

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for its consumer Vehicles crew's staff reportedly got the memo the day that

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this was announced by GM leading Cruz co-founder and former CEO Kyle vog to

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call the automaker a bunch of dummies the utopian writes this is yet another

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example of automakers learning they're not tech companies but cars are machines

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that's technology nope they're art aw

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that's nice meta social platforms including Instagram Facebook and

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WhatsApp suffered a widespread outage today at the time of writing meta hadn't

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given a specific reason for the outages Beyond calling them a technical issue

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which I guess is technically correct as soon as reports started flooding in meta

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tweeted that they're working to get things back to normal because your dog

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needs to be using meta AI or he won't know what the fu is going on huh huh

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this dog needs met AI LG is exiting the

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Blu-ray player business and will no longer be making new players according

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to Flat panels HD and sure enough LG's

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site lists the last Blu-ray player the company announced the up k90 as

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discontinued with Sony and Samsung also out of the market Panasonic remains one

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of the few remaining companies who haven't quit yet and while this is sad

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news for disc enthusiasts I think we can all agree Blu-ray was a dumb name CD VHS

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DVD Blu-ray we couldn't come up with a good

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acronym come on and an AI company called Artisan has attracted criticism for

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advertising its services on San Francisco billboards with the slogan

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stop hiring humans telling companies to

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hire its AI sales rep agents which it

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calls Artisans instead when interviewed

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by SFGate CEO jaspar carmichel Jack

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which sounds like an AI gener erated name admitted the ads are somewhat

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dystopian but so is AI adding that you

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don't draw eyes with boring messaging Fair Point and to be fair you

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can't call this billboard boring they even gave the AI laser eyes and included

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a spelling mistake as an example of human error see unlike humans AIS won't

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make little mistakes like that they may suggest that if you run out of gas you

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could try filling your car up with melted cheese but that could work you

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won't even try it hey why don't you try coming back here on Friday for more Tech

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news I mean probably won't change your

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life for the better in unimaginable

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ways unless uh