I know you click this video because you love Windows but I just quickly want to
make the case that you should also love something else
yourself Merry Christmas Microsoft has
revealed that in order to keep receiving Windows 10 security updates after the OS
loses official support in October 2025 Windows 10 users will have to pay the
price the blood of their first born nah
it's 30 bucks per year though that's pretty bad bad Microsoft
first announced their extended security updates would be available to non
business users back in 2023 but they finally got more specific at the very
bottom of a very long blog post about how the best way to deal with Windows 10
losing support is actually to upgrade to Windows 11 what solves the problem but
for a lot of people that probably requires buying a new pc a device that
infamously generally costs significantly more than $30
per year though however you could avoid
paying if you're a business and you already pay to access a Windows 10 PC
through Microsoft's Cloud PC service Windows 365 which starts at around 30
bucks per user per month anyway if Redmond's tactics are working on you and
you're finally considering the Switch to Windows 11 at least recall got delayed
again so that's good if you can swing the 30 bucks per year though take note
that you can only do that for 3 years after October 2025 that's plenty of time
to learn how to use Linux good new Linux R it'll probably take you that long too
new Linux benchmarks for Apple's recently revealed M4 Pro and M4 Max
processors are trickling onto the geekbench database and when I say
trickling I mean gushing we're talking gushers here flavor slam tastes couo
because the M4 Max presumably tested in one of the new MacBook Pros is getting
multi-core scores over 26,000 beating Intel and AMD's top end
mainstream desktop CPUs the M4 Pro
meanwhile a step down from the M4 Max is scoring around
22,000 Which is higher than Apple's own
M2 Ultra and even higher than the participants of MK Ultra that means the
new Mac Mini which is just a couple inches chunkier than the Apple TV box is
faster than the much chunkier Mac Pro
and Mac Studio which have not yet received their M4 upgrades for reasons
they know full well but the most powerful desktop Mac deserves a power
button that doesn't require squirming a finger around under the front like
you're tickling a Young's chin we don't really do that
anymore even for grandmas it's kind of like all right don't worry di wires are
designing 3D printed doohickeys to make hitting the button easier while also
completely negating Apple's more minimalist design choice but we HD the
button on the bottom to make it look clean well now we're getting dirty my
casat phrase in College open AI has launched chat GPT search apparently
choosing to integrate their previously announced search GPT prototype into
their existing product instead of making users keep track of a whole another GPT
we've got enough gpts already they're scurrying around like rats who are who
are great at lying chat GPT search will give plus and team subscribers links to
relevant web sources in addition to answering their questions retaining
contextual information as you continue chatting or searching I guess they're
kind of the same thing now hey that kind of sounds like AI search startup
perplexity which just launched a Mac app to compete with the chat GPT app
anthropic also just dropped apps for its claw chatbot on both Mac and Windows
although they're electron based so they're basically web apps like this
playable version of Minecraft that's generated entirely by AI instead of a
traditional game engine so it's actually not Minecraft it's like having a fever
dream in which you're playing Minecraft called Oasis its creators describe it as
the first playable realtime open world AI model made possible by running on
Asic cards from etched that have the Transformer large language model
architecture etched into their actual chips it makes the AI game run fast but
seemingly doesn't fix the issue experienced by this redditor who spent a
couple minutes building a house only to have it vanish when they turned around
this kind of volatility is probably why anthropic published an article urging
governments to take action within the next 18 months to mitigate the serious
risk posed by AI because we cannot
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Christmas shopping done yet time's a ticking I already got you these quick
pits the gaming Legend Continues is the press release title AMD went with when
confirming that the x3d chip launching next week is the ryzen 79800 x3d the
company claims it averages 8% better gaming performance than the 7800 x3d
they also claim it's 20% better at gaming than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285k
but that's just typical cherry-pick data from AMD they should have compared
performance with something better like Intel's last gen
chips team red also confirmed that you
can overclock the 9800 x3d and that's
pretty fire according to the Twitter account for the game awards my go-to
account for stuff like that or maybe Jeff Key's thumb slipped I don't know
Intel had a predictably brutal earnings call though they chocked up most of
their losses to writeoffs and the cost of restructuring on the call Intel CEO
Pat Ginger who placed fourth in a recent Pat gelsinger lookalike
contest said the on package RAM design
of their current lunar Lake Mobile chips was a one-off a passing flirtation with
integrated memory if you will in their upcoming aerrow Lake and Panther Lake
chips memory will be firmly off package
Ginger also claims that there will be less need for discret graphics in the
market going forward which does not vode well for the future of the company's
discreet desktop gaming gpus but I think we were all mentally preparing for this
already Indonesia has banned the sale of
Google phones within the country just one week after also Banning iPhone 16s
apparently the company mandates that 40%
of the effort or stuff that goes into a
phone be produced locally this can be met by manufacturing a percentage of
parts locally developing software locally or even by setting up R&D
centers in Indonesia these banned phones can still be brought into the country
they just can't be sold visiting tourists for example may carry up to two
iPhone 16s that's pretty generous when you consider
zero phones are allowed entry into my grandma's dining room we're going to
have a real conversation I worked hard on this meal
Reddit has had a profitable Financial quarter for the first time in its two
decade history Reddit made a net income of $30 million as opposed to this time
last year where the site made7 million you might reasonably guess
that this change in Fortune is due to reddit's recent Partnerships with Google
and open AI or the way that Google has placed Reddit at the top of nearly every
search page however Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says it's mostly due to a new AI
translation feature that has increased the site's popularity with non-english
speakers okay quick question for our multilingual viewers how do they say BS
where you're from and meta says it's developing robot hands and fingertips
that can better physically feel by way of tactile sensors
this isn't meant to help build better prosthetics for human beings though to
be clear mark an actual human being would have at least LED with that
possibility rather it's meant to help scientists create AI models that better
understand the physical world and can grasp fragile cylindrical objects
without crushing them why did we say cylindrical it kind of goes along with
meta's whole theme right now Zuckerberg recently told meta investors that they'd
be developing a new category for their social platforms which is nothing but AI
generated and AI curated content but can
you feel it no it won't be good for the users why are you asking that it's for
the the robots the robots are going to have a great time but this show is for
you so why don't you come back on Monday for another episode of tech news it'll
be curated and cured like a nice slice
of meat only the choices Cuts
here P because you deserve it and that's what
Christmas is all
about and happy Hanukkah the season has
begun