sometimes it's hard to tell what's Tech news and what's not like if I put robot
arms and legs on a banana is that Tech news what about a
mango Microsoft says it wants everyone
to upgrade to Windows 11 this year before Windows 10 loses official support
in October but at the same time they're making it more difficult to do so on
unsupported Hardware the tech giant quietly deleted guidance about how to
bypass Windows 11's TPM requirement from its own support page although you can
still see the registry tweak instructions on the internet archive
which is as always based but Microsoft
has also blocked and labeled flyby 11 a
popular thirdparty utility that lets users skip the hardware requirements
check in Windows 11 as malware according
to the tools developer similar tools like Rufus still exist but I'm guessing
Microsoft isn't jazzed about those either what do you want Microsoft it's
like you invited everyone at school to your party and then only let in the ones
who brought the invite with them like okay you have fun in there we're going
to be playing Twister on the lawn it's the hot spot Chinese AI company deep
seek got really popular recently so of course uh US senator has proposed a
potential law that would criminalize importing it along with any Tech
developed in China on the threat of million dooll fines and prison time the
bill is kind of like your mom saying we have ai at home including Google's new
Gemini 2.0 models being rolled out for consumers and developers Google says
they're pretty good maybe they'll be good enough to power weapon systems
since Google just erased the section of their AI principal webpage that said the
tech giant wouldn't let their AI be deployed for weapon systems but it's
preserved Once More by the internet archive you to you the best I why I
don't know why but despite AI being added to guns and literally everything
else anthropic is telling job applicants not to use it to help write their
applications because they want to evaluate your non-ai assisted
communication skills it's almost like there's some kind of value to forming
thoughts using your own
words I'll have to ask chat GPT about that later richest man in the world Elon
Musk appears to be on a mission to access as much previously protected US
Government data as he can leading squads
of his fellow special government employees which are also employees of
private companies and even Executives like new treasury staff member Tom krow
who is also currently the CEO of Citrix
parent company Cloud software group Thomas shed a Tesla engineer who is now
the head of an IT group in the general Services Administration and who
suggested they make illegal changes to a government login system is yet another
example of elon's pension for funneling Tesla resources to his other private
companies for which he's currently already being sued what's another one
big whoop musk having access to these kind of government resources that could
be used to benefit the multiple Federal contracts he holds through SpaceX is a
bit of a conflict of interest so Congressman Mark poan is working on a
bill that would ban this practice called the eliminate Looting of our nation by
mitigating unethical State klepto y or
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Raspberry that's not full Tech news but
it could be a quick bit Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods are coming into
effect and caused the US Postal Service to briefly suspend all inbound Parcels
from China this morning while they figured out what extra fees need to be
tacked on the EU is also looking to tax
Chinese Goods that were were previously cheap enough to skirt customs duties so
prepare for your Teemu shine and gaming
handhelds even to be less wallet friendly China is apparently responding
by opening antitrust investigations into Google and apple which may end up
hurting those companies but it's also something that America's own FTC was
trying to do under previous chair Lena Khan but the government likes big Tech
now so I'm sure the president is real torn up over what's happening to his
friends open AI has dropped the signin
requirement to use chaty PT search on the web you can access it through chaty
pt.com but open.com has also gotten a
facelift along with a new logo the homepage features a big old prompt SL
search bar just like Google I'm probably
going to keep using Google just because asking an AI to search for me is only a
little better than asking a fellow human what they know about a topic and half
the time these days they just pull out their phone and ask chat gbt we could just skip the middleman Sonos has had a
rough year but now it thinks it has just the ticket The Verge is reporting that
part of the company's comeback plan is the launch of an Android-based streaming
box to help consumers forget about how the company's redesigned app borked
people's expensive speaker setups last year the Box could launch in April for
$200 to $400 signaling that Sonos has totally
fixed all of their glitches otherwise why would they price it that high think
about it and researchers from NVIDIA and Carnegie melan University have published
a framework allowing robots to copy the
complex movements of top athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James why'
you say it like that that's how you say it or at least try to copy their
movements they're doing their best but sadly they're still not quite stable
enough to use as a platform for this actual working plasma cannon with with a
35- ft range developed by slightly insane engineer Greg leay maybe next
time though and maybe this Friday you'll come back for more Tech news I should
have a better grasp of what fruits and vegetables do and don't qualify for Tech
news by then figure it out what are you talking about you just got I came in
late you're missing the context