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Ah, nothing tastes quite as sweet as tech news.

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And that's a lie, but if you think you can find that special metal and plastic-y magic dust aroma

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anywhere else, let me know

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because it's probably less carcinogenic. Microsoft has agreed to give a year

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of extended Windows 10 updates to users in the European economic area for free

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with even less strings attached. Outside of the EEA, it's still the same story

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we've already known about. If you wanna stay on Windows 10 after October 14th

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and still get security updates, you can either pay 30 bucks or 1,000 Microsoft reward points

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or you can enable Windows backup and sync your PC settings to OneDrive

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and uh-oh, if you need more than five gigabytes, which is the default, you may have to buy some extra

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cloud space from Microsoft. Because what, you think clouds grow on trees?

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Or do they? Could you make an argument that they do? Anyway, in the EEA, all you have to do

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is sign into your Microsoft account on your PC every 60 days

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and you can keep partying Windows 10 style 24, 7, 365,

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but not 366, it's a year, they're serious about this.

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Now, Microsoft agreed to this after they were sent a sternly worded letter

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by sensibly named European consumer rights group,

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Euro consumers, who argued that Microsoft's existing policy

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may break the rules of the Digital Markets Act.

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The group also noted that Windows 10 is being phased out faster than previous Windows versions.

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Hmm, why is that Microsoft? Because it's haunted?

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What? Admit it. At the end of the day though, this all goes to show the power of channeling your inner mom

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and writing one of the most valuable companies in the world,

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a very angry email. But hey, don't worry about Microsoft,

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for any Windows 10 support money they're losing out on, they'll make up with the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds,

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which have had their prices officially confirmed. The vanilla Xbox Ally starts at 600 USD,

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while the Ally X with the Ryzen Z2 Extreme

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starts at $1,000, making it one of the most expensive mainstream handhelds.

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Honestly, the value proposition for these things are kind of confusing.

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Cheaper handhelds with similar specs will also have access to these special

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Xbox-ified Windows UI. So does Microsoft even want people to buy these at all?

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The company has been open about their apathy towards Xbox console sales,

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which is now bearing negative fruit.

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In Costco, recently confirming to games reporter,

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Destin Legari, I'm sorry, that I don't know,

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that they removed Xbox consoles from sale at Costco.

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And Canadian outlet, WB Games, is also reportedly selling off their existing

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Xbox inventory and just leaving it at that. I mean, it looks like they still have some stock,

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but that should clear out by Xboxing day. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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I'd like to show you one of the crazier robot videos I've seen in my internet travels depicting robots

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having to relearn how to walk after their engineers dismember them with a chainsaw.

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What the is wrong with these people? Don't stop at the legs,

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go full gears of war on these clankers. They won't take my job.

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So this company, Skilled AI, is doing these horrific things

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to demonstrate how their skilled brain technology

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can just work no matter what robot body it's running on

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and can continue forcibly retiring humans even when it's attacked

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by a mob of katana-wielding Neoludites. Skilled gives some much more optimistic examples

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of robot activities that could benefit from this tech and so does Google DeepMind

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because they showed off their own robots exhibiting similar body agnostic abilities.

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An AI could get smarter and smarter as it possesses one vessel after another,

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which is something we want. DeepMind also demoed a robot searching the web for info

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to help it complete a physical task like sorting compost, garbage, and recycling

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according to San Francisco regulations. Speaking of AI, OpenAI also launched ChatGPT Pulse,

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a feature exclusive to the $200 pro tier for now,

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which has ChatGPT proactively search for stuff it knows you're into

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and deliver updates on that stuff to you, of its own accord.

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And as the Verge notes, OpenAI and other AI companies

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really want you to get used to AI, not only doing stuff for you,

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but doing it for you before you even think to ask, which will get people hooked on it,

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which will eventually lead to everyone leading sedentary lives on the space cruise liner from Wally,

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which is obviously the end goal for all of us, right? Not many people know this,

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but QuickBits are actually completely odorless and flavorless.

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And that's why no one ever sees them coming.

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Last week in an interview with CNBC, Tim Cook responded to a question about NVIDIA

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and Intel's recently announced partnership by saying, competition is very good for the foundry business.

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We'd love to see Intel come back. Now, this week, Bloomberg reports

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that Intel has approached Apple to ask about a possible investment.

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Five years after Apple dropped their CPUs for Apple Silicon.

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Ooh, do they think the flame has been reignited

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or this is awkward? Intel, honestly, I'd just leave it.

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I think you're reading into Tim's comment a bit too much. I mean, seconds later in that same interview,

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the guy said, there's a lot of great people in America.

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You know, they're just words. They don't, sometimes CEOs just say things.

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Almost all OnePlus phones are vulnerable to a permission bypass exploit

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that could allow any installed app to access SMS data

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and metadata without informing the user. The issue was discovered by security researchers

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at Rapid7 and OnePlus is currently working on a patch,

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but there are some OnePlus devices that are protected from this flaw.

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Those still running OxygenOS 11 from back in 2020.

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Now, if you were like my dad and went, ain't no way I'm updating and giving the Chinese my data.

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You were smarter than any of us. And I'm sorry, dad.

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Not Jeff Kearley, normal dad. Amazon has agreed to pay two and a half billion dollars

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to settle the federal trade commission's lawsuit over the tech giant intentionally making it

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heinously difficult for users to cancel their Amazon Prime subscription.

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The settlement consists of a $1 billion civil penalty,

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the largest ever in an FTC rule violation case

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for being a very naughty tech giant. While the remaining one and a half billion

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will go towards refunds for about 35 million customers

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harmed by Amazon's nonsense, which included a cancellation process

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Amazon internally named the Iliad Flow

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in a reference to the famously long and arduous Trojan War.

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You gotta admit it's a good reference. Everyone knows Amazon makes the sickest references.

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And the president and COO of Nintendo of America,

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Doug Bowser, yep, that's real if you weren't aware, is stepping down after six years in the role.

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Reminiscing about his time there, Bowser recalled one of his earliest video game experiences

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was playing the arcade version of Donkey Kong. And he thought, why is the bad guy a giant monkey?

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That doesn't make sense. It should be a giant spiky turtle dragon thing, obviously.

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The role of Nintendo of America president, which I have said before was previously occupied

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by a man named Bowser, will now go to a 20-year Nintendo veteran

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named Devin Prichard, which, you know, can't you change your name

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to Swanky Kong or something? Like, and can you come back here

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for more tech news on Monday? It just always feels a bit weird when you're not here.

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About the same amount of weird as me knowing if you're watching the video or not.

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But hey, life's stranger than fiction, am I right?

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I'm very, very true.