{"video_id":"YUGCItNGsVs","title":"Microsoft Slams the Door","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":450,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.84,"text":"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":9.36,"text":"I'm just kidding. It's great to see you. Also, that's a weird insult. Microsoft","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.64,"end_s":13.8,"text":"has apparently patched a popular loophole that allowed users to install","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.36,"end_s":18.32,"text":"Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements. Why","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.28,"end_s":22.04,"text":"convince people to download your OS when you can just make it harder to upgrade","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.96,"end_s":26.6,"text":"for those who actually want to? This particular trick allowed anyone to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.76,"end_s":31.48,"text":"bypass the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11 by tricking the OS's setup","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.24,"end_s":36.72,"text":"file into thinking your machine was a server, classic, not a host.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.12,"end_s":41.12,"text":"That's another computer and restaurant word. Unfortunately, Twitter user","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.64,"end_s":45.68,"text":"TheBobPony discovered that the most recent Insider build of Windows now also","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":43.52,"end_s":51.16,"text":"requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support. This isn't the case in normal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.44,"end_s":54.48,"text":"Windows yet, but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon, and that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.04,"end_s":58.48,"text":"could leave you with a non-functional system if you use this workaround to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":56.32,"end_s":63.0,"text":"install Windows 11. There are still other methods to install Windows 11","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.28,"end_s":66.92,"text":"without having TPM 2.0. For example, open-source utility Rufus apparently has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":65.239,"end_s":70.44,"text":"its own workaround, too. I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.28,"end_s":74.2,"text":"patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, but I'm happy to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.08,"end_s":77.36,"text":"have them try. That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":75.88,"end_s":82.6,"text":"11. Just kidding, they'll make time. Procreate, the company behind the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":80.08,"end_s":88.24,"text":"popular art app for iPad, have pledged to never add AI to their products. This","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":85.84,"end_s":92.16,"text":"is despite the existence of the 2010 song \"Never Say Never\" by Justin Bieber.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":90.68,"end_s":96.76,"text":"In a video posted by the company's Twitter account, CEO Jason Koopa said,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":94.2,"end_s":101.64,"text":"\"I really hate generative AI.\" And Procreate's website features a page","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.08,"end_s":105.04,"text":"dedicated to their anti-AI stance. As a result, the company has received a lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":103.48,"end_s":108.32,"text":"of love from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.8,"end_s":112.04,"text":"AI trained on their work without consent. But painters and illustrators","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":110.28,"end_s":116.12,"text":"aren't the only ones seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools. AI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":114.52,"end_s":121.88,"text":"photo editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":118.16,"end_s":123.8,"text":"about when a photo stops being a photo.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":121.88,"end_s":128.6,"text":"Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app Halide has introduced a new","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":126.08,"end_s":133.08,"text":"feature called Process Zero, allowing users to take photos without any AI or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":131.12,"end_s":136.8,"text":"image processing at all. Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, so now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":135.32,"end_s":142.52,"text":"ironically you need to pay a subscription to not use AI. National","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":139.32,"end_s":144.84,"text":"Public Data, or NPD for short, has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":142.52,"end_s":149.08,"text":"finally confirmed it had a data breach, though they don't actually seem too","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":146.92,"end_s":154.0,"text":"sure. In their official statement, the data aggregator says, \"There appears to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":151.72,"end_s":157.08,"text":"have been a data security incident.\" As if hundreds of millions of people's data","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":155.44,"end_s":161.92,"text":"ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough. While many","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":159.52,"end_s":166.24,"text":"reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed, that's apparently not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":163.84,"end_s":170.68,"text":"quite true. Web security consultant Troy Hunt investigated and found there were","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":168.12,"end_s":175.28,"text":"about 134 million unique email addresses. Yet NPD told the Maine","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":172.96,"end_s":180.0,"text":"Attorney General's office that only 1.3 million people were affected, which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":177.12,"end_s":183.6,"text":"would imply that they all have about 100 emails. That's normal non-degenerate","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.84,"end_s":188.32,"text":"behavior, right? It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":186.2,"end_s":192.52,"text":"that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":190.72,"end_s":197.52,"text":"So every person affected by the breach must have also been born roughly 200","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":194.92,"end_s":202.36,"text":"times. Now to be fair to NPD, millions of these records are for people who no","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":199.4,"end_s":206.6,"text":"longer are alive, so maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure. But","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.8,"end_s":212.12,"text":"it's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":209.08,"end_s":214.44,"text":"because an NPD sister site published a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":212.12,"end_s":219.6,"text":"file containing admin passwords on its homepage that was only removed today.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":217.52,"end_s":223.64,"text":"Sure, we've been hacked before, but the hackers still had to put in some effort.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":222.4,"end_s":229.96,"text":"But do you know how much effort our sponsor War Thunder had to put into their free-to-play vehicular combat game","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":227.36,"end_s":232.92,"text":"to make it so so historically accurate? Neither do I, but it seems like a lot,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":231.6,"end_s":237.72,"text":"especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles into","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":235.76,"end_s":241.44,"text":"combat. We're talking planes, tanks, boats, oh my. Plus, War Thunder's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":239.88,"end_s":245.44,"text":"in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":243.72,"end_s":249.48,"text":"battle. Because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted. Click the link","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":247.8,"end_s":253.28,"text":"below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, and you'll get","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":251.48,"end_s":259.12,"text":"some extra goodies, too. How do you summon Quick Bits? Easy. You just go","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":257.28,"end_s":263.8,"text":"Wait, no, that's cats. Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.4,"end_s":269.08,"text":"expected to arrive in October a little fuller than anticipated, a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":265.64,"end_s":272.2,"text":"healthier, girthier. A leak, courtesy of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":269.08,"end_s":274.76,"text":"Jaekin on Twitter, lists 14 SKUs with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":272.2,"end_s":280.52,"text":"two previously unseen Core Ultra 5 models, the 235 and 225. Another, more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":278.68,"end_s":284.64,"text":"different tweet from fellow leaker OneRaichu, points to the lineup","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":282.4,"end_s":288.64,"text":"including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores, like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":287.04,"end_s":293.48,"text":"the four P-cores and four E-cores. Although, depending on who you're talking to, these aren't real E-cores.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":292.2,"end_s":297.96,"text":"Those have all gone to join hyperthreading in the great outdated","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":295.4,"end_s":302.76,"text":"tech glossary in the sky. Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'être","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.56,"end_s":307.76,"text":"is hyper-affordable mini PCs, has launched a new, even lighter 2 GB","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":304.72,"end_s":309.8,"text":"version of the Pi 5, down from 4 GB.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":307.76,"end_s":314.6,"text":"Beyond the 2 GB drop in memory and a newly optimized SOC, the rest of the Pi","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.84,"end_s":318.92,"text":"specs remain unchanged. It's also for just 50 bucks, down from 60, for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":317.08,"end_s":323.28,"text":"consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":321.16,"end_s":327.4,"text":"available RAM. Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":324.8,"end_s":331.36,"text":"1 GB version, or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of pies,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":329.96,"end_s":335.96,"text":"each with half the memory of the previous model, Zeno's paradox style. As","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":333.92,"end_s":339.64,"text":"in total pies. Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference. The Zotac","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":337.72,"end_s":344.0,"text":"Zone, first revealed at CES, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.2,"end_s":348.16,"text":"hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":346.16,"end_s":353.64,"text":"thanks to its dual touchpads, but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.48,"end_s":357.76,"text":"120 Hz OLED screen, Hall effect joysticks, a selfie camera, and a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":355.36,"end_s":361.36,"text":"kickstand. The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back. Valve","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":359.84,"end_s":365.72,"text":"wouldn't do this to us. The Zone reportedly officially launches in September, but I don't know who to trust","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":364.2,"end_s":370.76,"text":"at this point. According to TechRadar, Google has quietly confirmed that there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":367.72,"end_s":371.36,"text":"will be no more Fitbit smartwatches","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":370.76,"end_s":377.56,"text":"produced. I'm shocked. No one was more shocked by the story than Google, as a spokesperson","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":375.52,"end_s":381.64,"text":"then told Ars Technica that TechRadar's article was not correct, but did not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.64,"end_s":386.12,"text":"elaborate on any potential new Fitbit smartwatch products. This confused us","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":384.44,"end_s":389.72,"text":"because last week the senior director of product management for Pixel wearables","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":387.6,"end_s":393.8,"text":"told Engadget that moving forward Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":391.48,"end_s":398.92,"text":"smartwatches. So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":396.0,"end_s":404.12,"text":"That's fun. And Tesla's hiring workers to train its humanoid robot Optimus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":401.56,"end_s":408.4,"text":"using mocap suits. Candidates must be reasonably fit and between 5'7\" and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":406.04,"end_s":412.36,"text":"5'11\". No big boys or short kings allowed. Unfortunately, this training","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":410.48,"end_s":416.4,"text":"might take millions of hours of data, meaning that the first sign of the robot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":414.08,"end_s":421.64,"text":"apocalypse may be an epidemic of repetitive strain injuries. By contrast,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":419.44,"end_s":425.44,"text":"Chinese company Unitree says it has a $16,000","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":423.12,"end_s":429.84,"text":"mass-production-ready bot that can jump, jog, withstand kicks, solder","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":427.44,"end_s":432.76,"text":"electronics, and flip pancakes with training. It'll be the perfect","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.16,"end_s":436.04,"text":"bodyguard/butler for all those average-sized men with debilitating","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":434.28,"end_s":440.24,"text":"carpal tunnel. But it would be even more debilitating if you didn't come back on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.96,"end_s":444.16,"text":"Wednesday for more tech news. I know when you aren't here, and frankly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":442.92,"end_s":448.6,"text":"it hurts. Almost as bad as MY CARPAL TUNNEL. AH.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. I'm just kidding. It's great to see you. Also, that's a weird insult. Microsoft has apparently patched a popular loophole that allowed users to install Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements. Why convince people to download your OS when you can just make it harder to upgrade for those who actually want to? This particular trick allowed anyone to bypass the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11 by tricking the OS's setup file into thinking your machine was a server, classic, not a host. That's another computer and restaurant word. Unfortunately, Twitter user TheBobPony discovered that the most recent Insider build of Windows now also requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support. This isn't the case in normal Windows yet, but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon, and that could leave you with a non-functional system if you use this workaround to install Windows 11. There are still other methods to install Windows 11 without having TPM 2.0. For example, open-source utility Rufus apparently has its own workaround, too. I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, but I'm happy to have them try. That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 11. Just kidding, they'll make time. Procreate, the company behind the popular art app for iPad, have pledged to never add AI to their products. This is despite the existence of the 2010 song \"Never Say Never\" by Justin Bieber. In a video posted by the company's Twitter account, CEO Jason Koopa said, \"I really hate generative AI.\" And Procreate's website features a page dedicated to their anti-AI stance. As a result, the company has received a lot of love from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative AI trained on their work without consent. But painters and illustrators aren't the only ones seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools. AI photo editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions about when a photo stops being a photo. Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app Halide has introduced a new feature called Process Zero, allowing users to take photos without any AI or image processing at all. Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, so now ironically you need to pay a subscription to not use AI. National Public Data, or NPD for short, has finally confirmed it had a data breach, though they don't actually seem too sure. In their official statement, the data aggregator says, \"There appears to have been a data security incident.\" As if hundreds of millions of people's data ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough. While many reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed, that's apparently not quite true. Web security consultant Troy Hunt investigated and found there were about 134 million unique email addresses. Yet NPD told the Maine Attorney General's office that only 1.3 million people were affected, which would imply that they all have about 100 emails. That's normal non-degenerate behavior, right? It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers. So every person affected by the breach must have also been born roughly 200 times. Now to be fair to NPD, millions of these records are for people who no longer are alive, so maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure. But it's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data because an NPD sister site published a file containing admin passwords on its homepage that was only removed today. Sure, we've been hacked before, but the hackers still had to put in some effort. But do you know how much effort our sponsor War Thunder had to put into their free-to-play vehicular combat game to make it so so historically accurate? Neither do I, but it seems like a lot, especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles into combat. We're talking planes, tanks, boats, oh my. Plus, War Thunder's in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any battle. Because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted. Click the link below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, and you'll get some extra goodies, too. How do you summon Quick Bits? Easy. You just go Wait, no, that's cats. Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is expected to arrive in October a little fuller than anticipated, a little healthier, girthier. A leak, courtesy of Jaekin on Twitter, lists 14 SKUs with two previously unseen Core Ultra 5 models, the 235 and 225. Another, more different tweet from fellow leaker OneRaichu, points to the lineup including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores, like the four P-cores and four E-cores. Although, depending on who you're talking to, these aren't real E-cores. Those have all gone to join hyperthreading in the great outdated tech glossary in the sky. Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'être is hyper-affordable mini PCs, has launched a new, even lighter 2 GB version of the Pi 5, down from 4 GB. Beyond the 2 GB drop in memory and a newly optimized SOC, the rest of the Pi specs remain unchanged. It's also for just 50 bucks, down from 60, for consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their available RAM. Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a 1 GB version, or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of pies, each with half the memory of the previous model, Zeno's paradox style. As in total pies. Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference. The Zotac Zone, first revealed at CES, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions, hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck thanks to its dual touchpads, but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 120 Hz OLED screen, Hall effect joysticks, a selfie camera, and a kickstand. The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back. Valve wouldn't do this to us. The Zone reportedly officially launches in September, but I don't know who to trust at this point. According to TechRadar, Google has quietly confirmed that there will be no more Fitbit smartwatches produced. I'm shocked. No one was more shocked by the story than Google, as a spokesperson then told Ars Technica that TechRadar's article was not correct, but did not elaborate on any potential new Fitbit smartwatch products. This confused us because last week the senior director of product management for Pixel wearables told Engadget that moving forward Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not smartwatches. So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing. That's fun. And Tesla's hiring workers to train its humanoid robot Optimus using mocap suits. Candidates must be reasonably fit and between 5'7\" and 5'11\". No big boys or short kings allowed. Unfortunately, this training might take millions of hours of data, meaning that the first sign of the robot apocalypse may be an epidemic of repetitive strain injuries. By contrast, Chinese company Unitree says it has a $16,000 mass-production-ready bot that can jump, jog, withstand kicks, solder electronics, and flip pancakes with training. It'll be the perfect bodyguard/butler for all those average-sized men with debilitating carpal tunnel. But it would be even more debilitating if you didn't come back on Wednesday for more tech news. I know when you aren't here, and frankly it hurts. Almost as bad as MY CARPAL TUNNEL. AH."}