there's no intro today because the first story is so big it's kind of an intro in
and of itself apparently Windows 11 is a real thing and not a fever dream that we
all collectively experienced while baking in this crazy heat wave you know
what i mean i feel like a french fry in this weather
anyways it turns out the leaked version of the os was legit meaning Windows 11
brings a new glassy looking ui and improvements to touch multitasking and
separate desktop environments teams is also built in which is
fine and there's widgets which people use
gamers will be pleased by xbox game pass integration and support for auto HDR and
direct storage which will make games prettier and faster kind of like a model
that just had an energy drink it's a dumb joke and Android apps will
be available in the microsoft store awesome through an amazon app store
integration wow that's awesome but side loading will
be a thing awesomer the bigger thing though is how the
microsoft store will allow developers to keep 100 of their revenue if they use
third-party commerce engines but
not for games but microsoft also wants steam and the
epic game store to be in the microsoft store confused
it's okay Windows 11's tpm module requirement is
way more confusing than that because microsoft didn't mention it at all in
their presentation and now people are scalping chips that most people won't
need basically most somewhat modern pcs will
have no trouble upgrading to Windows 11 for free but some custom built desktop
users and i t admins might have to enable the tpm setting in the BIOS and
yeah it's a bit more complicated than that actually but what do you think this
is a Linus tech tips video we actually are going to do a video about that
users of western digital's my book external drives were horrified to
discover their devices had been wiped this week western digital says that the
likely culprit was malware that took advantage of an unpatched vulnerability
known as cve 2018-018-472
i mean i wouldn't try to patch that either it doesn't sound very threatening
some users have managed to salvage a bit of their data using recovery tools but
others have had no luck partially because many my book drives use
encryption wd is recommending users to
disconnect their drives from the internet as a precaution while they work
on the problem which makes sense because that is where malware babies come from
it's actually where a lot of bad things come from have you seen the internet and the
rollout of google's flock system which is designed to make third-party cookies
obsolete is being delayed to 2023 after
backlash from regulators worldwide as well as other advertisers and the public
and really pretty much everyone i didn't like it on the surface it seems like
preventing random advertisers from accessing your data is good but then
having google be the sole collector of your data seems
like not the solution to that mozilla seems like they might have one
alternative idea about what to do with our data how about giving it to
scientists the company's rally platform will allow
users to share their browsing data with computer scientists and sociologists who
will inject it with hormones to see what happens to them
no it will be used to analyze trends and inform studies about how people consume
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the u.s house judiciary committee has approved a bill that could prohibit big
tech companies from favoring their own products and could even force some
companies to sell off certain divisions if they're deemed too anti-competitive
but the bill still has to go through voting in congress and the senate so
don't worry nothing in your life will change too drastically just yet just
keep on scrolling for now valve has limited the amount of times that users
can change their steam accounts country in an effort to crack down on people
using vpns to buy games for cheaper in a different currency
good news for valve bad news for gamers who just happen to travel to more than
two new countries every three months if you're one of those gamers you have my
condolences google will reduce the cut of app sales
they take from Android developers from 30 to 15
all they have to do is develop versions of their app for additional platforms
like Android tv wear os and Android auto
it's unclear how this program interacts with google's existing 15 policy for
devs making under a million dollars but i have a feeling that it
doesn't hey look it's the samsung galaxy z fold
3 and the flip 35g leaked images were shared by evan blass
and the devices showed up in an fcc filing so chances are we're gonna see
these in a samsung event fairly soon maybe one will fully flip its way over
to you that would actually be kind of awful to
see and don't miss the steam summer sale
that's happening right i was wondering why games are so cheap steam summer sale
happening right now if your wallet has the self-control to not jump at every
deal it sees i mean i've trained mine very carefully it almost never jumps see
watch look no oh my god dick jump
and it jumped right out of this episode goodbye we had so much fun come back on
monday for more fun tech news we do love fun here you're having fun i can tell