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Windows 7 a 13 year old OS that was discontinued in 2015 but hey I'm not judging some of us are judging second that number still surpasses steam accounts using any version of Linux I mean how are PC Gamers gonna continue complaining about Windows when we won't even switch you first though Microsoft ended all extended security updates for these older os's in January of this year so if users do wait until valve's January 1st 2024 deadline they will have slightly bigger problems than no longer being able to download stardew Valley they will be using a dangerously vulnerable machine that hasn't been patched in nearly a year and no you you don't get an achievement for that it's kind of it's kind of the opposite you failed to achieve an upgrade so yeah Twitter is back in the news again because that's what happens when the world's richest man buys the world's angriest group chat Elon Musk has announced that the only realistic way to address AI bot swarms taking over is actual quote that's where Skynet started is to allow only tweets Toten by Twitter blue subscribers to appear in the for you for you for you for you in the For You tab this change turned out to be so wildly unpopular that musk added a second tweet claiming that users you follow directly will still appear on the For You tab he just forgot slipped my mind so it won't only be crypto Bros with three followers who mostly tweet about Martha Stewart secretly being an alien lizard phew musk also stated that voting in polls will require verification for same reason and definitely not because of that time he made a poll asking if he should step down his head of Twitter and 57.5 percent of respondents said yes on top of all that Legacy verification will be sun setting April 1st which is not an April Fool's joke unless the joke is that Brands celebrities and government officials will be forced to pay for verification or face rampant impersonation which admittedly was extremely funny last time even funnier musk claimed in a memo to employees that Twitter is now worth 20 billion dollars less than half of what he paid for it so Twitter can be thought of as an inverse startup which I guess is like the corporate equivalent of Benjamin Button it starts as a company with money and then just goes the opposite way but don't worry musk sees a clear but difficult path to a future valuation of more than 250 billion once enough bot Farms by Twitter blue and Amazon has released a developer kit for third parties to create devices for Amazon's Nationwide sidewalk mesh Network which feels like a good moment to ask wait when did Amazon get a nationwide mesh Network you see for the last two years Amazon has been using ring cameras and Echo speakers to send out low bandwidth signals too weak for high bandwidth devices like phones but enough to connect other iot smart devices that need to Ping Amazon servers to function like TVs and blenders this was originally so that ring cameras could still ping when motion activated even when offline through using another nearby device as a bridge even if that device was on a different Wi-Fi network owned by a stranger and sure they wouldn't be strangers if you just introduced yourself to your neighbors like a normal person but that's Amazon technically has permission to add these devices to its wide area network as part of their default settings which require users to opt out if they don't want to be a part of it according to data stop you bought it that's a yes you went to amazon.com according to data released by Amazon the sidewalk Network currently covers an area that includes around 90 percent of the U.S population that last 10 percent they're coming for you now it's time for quick bits brought to you by brilliant a Hands-On and interactive way to learn stem topics they offer thousands of lessons with new topics to learn each month like their computer science fundamentals course after all if you don't understand the basics behind a problem where do you even start your troubleshooting if you're like an Amazon device without a mesh Network their services can be used to supplement a college education or you can use it if getting smart is just a passion of yours I just I just care about knowing stuff and the first 200 people who head to brilliant.org Tech link will get 20 off an annual premium subscription so go on and get smart next up are the quick bits not to be confused with fast pieces the cheap knockoff against which we are pursuing legal action the Australian government has proposed applying an 18 plus rating to video games with any form of simulated gambling that includes games based on real life gambling like poker and slot machines but also potentially any game with paid loot boxes apparently the Australian government thinks being constantly exposed to gambling from an early age is bad for kids or something but I remember back in my day I had to walk to school through three casinos up here both ways we just [ __ ] each other in the yard whoever had the knife won the Dolphin Emulator for GameCube and we will be coming to steam this summer it will not however be providing the ROMs to run on it as usual instead there is a disclaimer on Steam that says that users must own an original copy of any game they want to use with Dolphin this is an important legal distinction though I'm not sure how much that's going to matter to the players or more importantly Nintendo Nintendo V valve Google will be removing several features from Fitbit accessories specifically anything that could be considered fun like challenges and Adventure races which encouraged users to compete against friends and family as motivation for a workout these social elements have been removed as part of an effort to streamline the Fitbit focusing on its intended purpose as a cold tool for measuring the health outcomes of friendless losers after delaying the PC Port of The Last of Us Part One three weeks to ensure its quality due to the popularity of the HBO adaptation no doubt the game finally came out yet in the place of a cordyceps fungus players found a game infected with shiitake mushrooms that cost numerous issues okay like making Joel look like an amnesiac tried to draw the gigachad from memory developer Naughty Dog apologized on Twitter for being a bad boy and not the fun kind what is the fun kind of bad boy like is that a sexy thing I'll tell you when you're older okay and over a thousand Tech experts including Engineers researchers and high profile figures like Steve Wozniak have signed an open letter urging a delay in AI development until we are sure that we can manage the potential risks setting aside the fact that a complete pause is absolutely definitely not going to happen there are a lot of serious risks to AI Mass job loss criminal exploitation and misinformation just last week an image created using mid-journey fooled the world into thinking the pope had a nice winter coat nobody even noticed that his hand was half phased through the lid of a cup or that the image of Jesus on his crucifix looked like a silver hot dog but it could have been a miracle you don't we absolutely cannot think that the pope has more drift than he has already and that's all the tech news for the day come back on Friday if you want more you could come back on Thursday but it's it's not gonna you're gonna then you're gonna just have to wait till Friday again so you see what I mean when I say"}