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Windows 11 users who use a third-party app to make Windows 11 less bad may have
trouble updating their operating system users of start all back a thirdparty
tool that adds back elements of the Windows 7 and 10 UI and functionality
are being blocked from installing the newest preview build of Windows 11 due
to security or performance issues this
is significant since this preview build is allegedly the release to
manufacturing version of the major upcoming 2 for H2 update for Windows 11
but the supposed security issues must not concern Microsoft too much since the
problem has an easy workaround simply uninstall start all back upgrade Windows
then rename start all back's exe file to
literally anything that doesn't contain start all back before reinstalling it
right click enter hacking
mode in fact fellow UI customization app
Explorer Patcher is having the same issue with the exact same workaround as
for why Microsoft is doing this Windows development MVP Raphael Rivera tweeted
that the company is probably blocking unreliable High crash rate software that
is extremely sensitive to OS changes person personally I would be more
open-minded to Rivera's point if Windows wasn't being fooled by the world's
laziest fake ID didn't even have to print it out or
anything to be fair it's not like these are the only apps that may block the
upgrade according to multiple sources a list of blocked apps even contains
programs published by Microsoft itself these days not even Microsoft trusts
Microsoft Microsoft also doesn't trust you to manually change your default
browser by modifying the registry in Windows 10 and 11 this was first noticed
by it consultant Kristoff kbit after two
of his programs that let Windows admins alter file associations to change
default apps stopped working turns out Windows February update added a driver
ironically called user Choice protection
driver that prevents the editing of registry keys for HTTP and https URL
associations as well as the key for PDF file Association we're trying to protect
you from your own choices some of you may recognize those
as the three things Edge likes to open the most now it's important to note that
you can still change your default browser in the plain old Windows
settings which may explain why colit thinks this is a response by Microsoft
to the EU digital markets act by adding
this driver Windows 10 and 11 can't override default browser policies for
PCS in the European economic area but the new driver is also present on
Windows machines in the US presumably so we can get a little taste of what life
is like over there they fancy fancy
cheese lock down computers long long why
their their bread is so long it must be nice Intel 13th and 14th gen chips are
reportedly being returned in significant numbers in Korea this has apparently LED
team blue to investigate the issues according to ZDNet Korea this all kicked
off in the country when Tekken 8 launched more globally however
complaints about gaming instability on 13th gen chips go back to 2022 when they
first launched but complaints about both 13th and 14th gen processors have become
commonplace over the past few months there are multiple reports of crashes
from different users playing different games all with the same story during
Shader compilation an error claims there's not enough video memory and
their game crashes interestingly all of these reviews and reports claim that the
crashing issues start occurring after 1 to 3 months of using Raptor Lake CPUs
now some suggest the issue may be silicon degradation the 13th and 14th
gen I9 CPUs are given so much power and
get so hot that they basically destroy themselves over time kind of like
celebrities and professional athletes it's not even a
joke whatever the case is these issues are so prevalent in Korea that an
official for one of the three Korean companies that distribute and support
Intel chips says more than 10 Raptor Lake chips are being returned daily
Intel issued a statement to ZDNet Korea saying they are aware of and
investigating these problems so perhaps they'll figure out how to release a
processor that is slightly more stable than Adobe Premiere Pro what did the
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cic.gc.ca uction to reflect their brevity I mean can you imagine what it
would be like if I just kept talking before we even got to the qu Google is
finally rolling out the expansion to their find my device Network a year
after they initially planned apparently thank goodness it's Apple's fault to
prevent stalking Google and apple announced a joint standard for unknown
tracker alerts so Android's Bluetooth tags couldn't be used to stock iPhone
users and vice versa while Google took a month to get their Network to detect
mysterious air tags Tim Cook and the copertino crew took a year to add their
half of the standard to iOS and this is why everyone hates group projects is
that like Josie and the Pussycats Google is also testing lookup
a new feature on Pixel phones which will allow users to look up unknown numbers
straight from their call log rather than copying the number and pasting it into
an external phone number search tool this might seem like just a handy
quality of life measure for the average person but it's potentially an extremely
useful safety tool for Less techsavvy users who will be able to get more
information with the click of a button before they continue talking to their
new friend spam likely NVIDIA is expected to launch at
least one RTX 50 Series GPU by the end
of this year according to graphics card manufacturers who spoke to Taiwanese
news Outlet United Daily News in a reassuring sign that team green has not
in fact forgotten that people once used their products to play games apparently
Gamers can anticipate that NVIDIA will save just enough Blackwell chips from
the AI accelerator Factory to give us an RTX 590 and maybe even an RTX 580
complete with GDDR 7 memory and a heavy survivorship bias Microsoft has
reportedly claimed in internal documents that upcoming Windows AIP PCS with
qualcomm's ARM powerered Snapdragon X Elite processors will have faster app
emulation than Rosetta 2 the x86 to ARM
translation layer that helped Apple's Intel to M1 transition go smoother than
the smoothest thing in existence a baby's bottom if Microsoft is correct
though this Windows transition will go even smoother than a baby's bottom but
that's impossible so logically they must be talking out of their baby's bottoms
does that make sense said aips will also
reportedly feature an AI Explorer tool that can search for anything you've ever
done on your computer and if you get the premium subscription hold it against you
it weighs your browser history on a on a scale against a
feather and Spotify launched a beta version of AI playlist allowing premium
users to generate personalized playlists with text prompts the tool will first be
available in the UK and Australia where users will be able to generate playlists
with real prompt examples like sad music
for painting dying flowers and then further refine those playlists with
addition prompts if you're uncomfortable with the thought of AI being everywhere
might I suggest generating playlists with prompts like Indie Bops for when AI
takes my job or music to be hunted by Terminators
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