our first story today is really an attempt by me to correct a series of
weird articles that are circulating right now if I'm wrong feel free to
correct me in the comments it'll be like a fun game where everyone's feelings get
hurt last week Microsoft called the TPM 2.0 Hardware requirement for Windows 11
non-negotiable but this week a bunch of Reddit posts and articles went up
claiming Microsoft had flip-flopped and we're now allowing the installation of
Windows 11 on PCS that don't meet the official requirements now I've seen some
chatter on this topic in the last little bit so my newsy sense went off it was
very unpleasant it seems like the source of this idea is this PC World article
published on Monday which claims Microsoft is issuing instructions for
installing Windows 11 on incompatible PCS PC World says this article is
translated from the original version that appeared on their German language
sister site PC velt titled Microsoft AED
install Windows 11 of incomp
PS they didn't have to yell I'm not sure why they're so angry but both articles
link to this Microsoft support article which says nothing about allowing such
installation and definitely doesn't give instructions for installing Windows 11
it actually only warns about compatibility issues and the lack of
security updates you'll get if you do install Windows 11 on on unsupported PCS
which you have been able to do using various workarounds since Windows 11
launched this support article has been up for quite some time I referenced it
in our episode from a week ago so I guess you could say this whole thing is
my fault who put that in there day four
and five of what turned out to be the 12 week days of open AI have come to pass
with day Four's announcement being chat gpt's canvas notebook like feature now
being made available to all users even those on the free tier for day five open
ey's big announcement was the previously announced chat GPT integration with
apple intelligence which was also announced by Apple today in what can
only be described as the big Tech equivalent to regifting but it's worse
it's like apple gave someone a gift and then open AI took it and wrapped it up
again and gave it back here I got you something open AI did give out an Easter
egg during the live stream showing a cal C event for super secret AGI on their
iPhone you know just a just a little tongue-and-cheek way to tease the thing
Sam mman says will Usher in a post job Society it's just fun as for Apple that
chat GPT integration is part of software updates rolling out to iOS iPad OS and
macOS with support for Apple's image playground so you can make little
cartoon pictures and send them to your friends stunning is it ciran it's fine
iPhone users can also make genen mooji now to rectify the fact that no one
thought to make a DJ octopus Emoji among
the arguably more useful changes Apple Mail is finally getting categorization
and there are some tweaks to the reimagined photos app that will
hopefully save its designers from being lynched Apple intelligence also now
supports localized English dialects in more countries including the UK and
Canada so I'll now be telling Siri to order me a pop and a double double from
Timmy's or she can take off like a hoser as soon as I get an iPhone not to be
left out Google announced their first Gemini 2.0 model flash which they say
outperforms Gemini 1.5 pro at twice the
speed etc etc wake me up when they're self-aware while we're not there yet all
of Google's main demos today involved agents ones that can find out what the
meta is for the game you're playing an agent that will go browse the web for
you to say find the contact email for a list of companies but for now only in
your active browser tab so it can keep checking if you're watching like a
six-year-old user user watch this wow
good job there's an agent for controlling a robot and a new coding
agent called Jewels you know she's got tattoos but the most interesting demo to
me was deep research a tool kind of
similar to notebook LM but instead of just summarizing sources you've uploaded
it will search the web compile sources on a a topic and then write a report but
what does school even need students for anymore get them out of there Google
also published an updated demo of its project Astra assistant deciphering
laundry machine controls which is a heck of a thing to trust an AI with but it's
definitely not a pre-made demo this time
we stopped doing that now I'm using these prototype glasses to test project
Astra handsfree sorry you're using what now why didn't you bring that up before
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man like a kind of mollusk Microsoft is
rolling out a couple things one is the experimental Windows mixed reality link
app for Quest headsets letting you set up multiple virtual monitors in 3D space
the other is nearly 400 PC games being
added to the Xbox app on Windows along
with a new home layout and the jump backin section from the Xbox console
dashboard I mean if that doesn't entice PC Gamers to use the Xbox app then I
don't know but it won't General Motors has cut off funding for cruise the
self-driving taxi startup it acquired back in 2016 it'll absorb Cruz's assets
and employees into GM's own division working on autonomous driving features
for its consumer Vehicles crew's staff reportedly got the memo the day that
this was announced by GM leading Cruz co-founder and former CEO Kyle vog to
call the automaker a bunch of dummies the utopian writes this is yet another
example of automakers learning they're not tech companies but cars are machines
that's technology nope they're art aw
that's nice meta social platforms including Instagram Facebook and
WhatsApp suffered a widespread outage today at the time of writing meta hadn't
given a specific reason for the outages Beyond calling them a technical issue
which I guess is technically correct as soon as reports started flooding in meta
tweeted that they're working to get things back to normal because your dog
needs to be using meta AI or he won't know what the fu is going on huh huh
this dog needs met AI LG is exiting the
Blu-ray player business and will no longer be making new players according
to Flat panels HD and sure enough LG's
site lists the last Blu-ray player the company announced the up k90 as
discontinued with Sony and Samsung also out of the market Panasonic remains one
of the few remaining companies who haven't quit yet and while this is sad
news for disc enthusiasts I think we can all agree Blu-ray was a dumb name CD VHS
DVD Blu-ray we couldn't come up with a good
acronym come on and an AI company called Artisan has attracted criticism for
advertising its services on San Francisco billboards with the slogan
stop hiring humans telling companies to
hire its AI sales rep agents which it
calls Artisans instead when interviewed
by SFGate CEO jaspar carmichel Jack
which sounds like an AI gener erated name admitted the ads are somewhat
dystopian but so is AI adding that you
don't draw eyes with boring messaging Fair Point and to be fair you
can't call this billboard boring they even gave the AI laser eyes and included
a spelling mistake as an example of human error see unlike humans AIS won't
make little mistakes like that they may suggest that if you run out of gas you
could try filling your car up with melted cheese but that could work you
won't even try it hey why don't you try coming back here on Friday for more Tech
news I mean probably won't change your
life for the better in unimaginable
ways unless uh