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God I'm sorry guys there's no Tech news today everyone everyone in Tech is just

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kind of chilling it's not doing much oh psych oh

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your face was really good well you

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should have seen your face anyone still using Windows 7 8 or 8.1 we'll be losing

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the ability to run Steam at the end of this year part of the rationale for the

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sunset is that some of the newest steam features rely on an embedded version of

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Google Chrome which has only limited functionality in older versions of the

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OS okay the change will affect an estimated 1.9 percent of steam users

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which is surprising for multiple reasons first that 1.4 percent of active account

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holders are using Windows 7 a 13 year

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old OS that was discontinued in 2015 but

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hey I'm not judging some of us are judging second that

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number still surpasses steam accounts using any version of Linux I mean how

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are PC Gamers gonna continue complaining about Windows when we won't even switch

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you first though Microsoft ended all extended security updates for these

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older os's in January of this year so if users do wait until valve's January 1st

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2024 deadline they will have slightly bigger problems than no longer being

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able to download stardew Valley they will be using a dangerously vulnerable

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machine that hasn't been patched in nearly a year and no you you don't get

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an achievement for that it's kind of it's kind of the opposite you failed to

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achieve an upgrade so yeah

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Twitter is back in the news again because that's what happens when the

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world's richest man buys the world's angriest group chat Elon Musk has

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announced that the only realistic way to address AI bot swarms taking over is

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actual quote that's where Skynet started

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is to allow only tweets Toten by Twitter

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blue subscribers to appear in the for you for you for you

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for you in the For You tab this change

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turned out to be so wildly unpopular that musk added a second tweet claiming

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that users you follow directly will still appear on the For You tab he just

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forgot slipped my mind so it won't only

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be crypto Bros with three followers who mostly tweet about Martha Stewart

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secretly being an alien lizard phew

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musk also stated that voting in polls will require verification for same

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reason and definitely not because of that time he made a poll asking if he

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should step down his head of Twitter and 57.5 percent of respondents said yes

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on top of all that Legacy verification will be sun setting April 1st which is

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not an April Fool's joke unless the joke is that Brands celebrities and

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government officials will be forced to pay for verification or face rampant

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impersonation which admittedly was extremely funny last time even funnier

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musk claimed in a memo to employees that Twitter is now worth 20 billion dollars

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less than half of what he paid for it so

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Twitter can be thought of as an inverse

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startup which I guess is like the corporate equivalent of Benjamin Button

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it starts as a company with money and

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then just goes the opposite way but don't worry

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musk sees a clear but difficult path to a future valuation of more than 250

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billion once enough bot Farms by Twitter blue and Amazon has released a developer

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kit for third parties to create devices for Amazon's Nationwide sidewalk mesh

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Network which feels like a good moment to ask wait when did Amazon get a

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nationwide mesh Network you see for the last two years Amazon has been using

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ring cameras and Echo speakers to send out low bandwidth signals too weak for

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high bandwidth devices like phones but enough to connect other iot smart

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devices that need to Ping Amazon servers to function like TVs and blenders this

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was originally so that ring cameras could still ping when motion activated

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even when offline through using another nearby device as a bridge even if that

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device was on a different Wi-Fi network owned by a stranger and sure they

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wouldn't be strangers if you just introduced yourself to your neighbors like a normal person but that's Amazon

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technically has permission to add these devices to its wide area network as part

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of their default settings which require users to opt out if they don't want to

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be a part of it according to data stop

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you bought it that's a yes you went to amazon.com

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according to data released by Amazon the sidewalk Network currently covers an

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area that includes around 90 percent of the U.S population that last 10 percent

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they're coming for you now it's time for quick bits brought to you by brilliant a

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don't understand the basics behind a problem where do you even start your

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troubleshooting if you're like an Amazon device without a mesh Network their

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services can be used to supplement a college education or you can use it if

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getting smart is just a passion of yours I just I just care about knowing stuff

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not to be confused with fast pieces the cheap knockoff against which we are

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pursuing legal action the Australian government has proposed applying an 18

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plus rating to video games with any form

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of simulated gambling that includes games based on real life gambling like

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poker and slot machines but also potentially any game with paid loot

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boxes apparently the Australian government thinks being constantly

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exposed to gambling from an early age is bad for kids or something but I remember

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back in my day I had to walk to school through three casinos up here both ways

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we just [ __ ] each other in the yard

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whoever had the knife won the Dolphin

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Emulator for GameCube and we will be coming to steam this summer

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it will not however be providing the ROMs to run on it as usual instead there

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is a disclaimer on Steam that says that users must own an original copy of any

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game they want to use with Dolphin this is an important legal distinction though

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I'm not sure how much that's going to matter to the players or more

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importantly Nintendo

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Nintendo V valve Google will be removing several features

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from Fitbit accessories specifically anything that could be considered fun

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like challenges and Adventure races which encouraged users to compete

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against friends and family as motivation for a workout these social elements have

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been removed as part of an effort to streamline the Fitbit focusing on its

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intended purpose as a cold tool for measuring the health outcomes of

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friendless losers after delaying the PC Port of The Last of Us Part One three

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weeks to ensure its quality due to the popularity of the HBO adaptation no

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doubt the game finally came out yet in the place of a cordyceps fungus players

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found a game infected with shiitake mushrooms that cost numerous issues okay

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like making Joel look like an amnesiac tried to draw the gigachad from memory

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developer Naughty Dog apologized on Twitter for being a bad boy and not the

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fun kind what is the fun kind of bad boy like is that a sexy thing I'll tell you

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when you're older okay and over a thousand Tech experts including

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Engineers researchers and high profile figures like Steve Wozniak have signed

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an open letter urging a delay in AI development until we are sure that we

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can manage the potential risks setting aside the fact that a complete pause is

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absolutely definitely not going to happen there are

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a lot of serious risks to AI Mass job loss criminal exploitation and

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misinformation just last week an image created using mid-journey fooled the

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world into thinking the pope had a nice winter coat nobody even noticed that his

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hand was half phased through the lid of a cup or that the image of Jesus on his

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crucifix looked like a silver hot dog but it could have been a miracle you

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don't we absolutely cannot think that the pope has more drift than he has

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already and that's all the tech news for the day come back on Friday if you want

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more you could come back on Thursday but it's it's not gonna

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you're gonna then you're gonna just have to wait till Friday again so you see

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what I mean when I say