God I'm sorry guys there's no Tech news today everyone everyone in Tech is just
kind of chilling it's not doing much oh psych oh
your face was really good well you
should have seen your face anyone still using Windows 7 8 or 8.1 we'll be losing
the ability to run Steam at the end of this year part of the rationale for the
sunset is that some of the newest steam features rely on an embedded version of
Google Chrome which has only limited functionality in older versions of the
OS okay the change will affect an estimated 1.9 percent of steam users
which is surprising for multiple reasons first that 1.4 percent of active account
holders are using 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
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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