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Tack-linked, uh, it's May 24th.

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Microsoft has announced a new AI assistant, Copilot.

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It'll be coming to Windows 11 next month and presumably,

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unceremoniously kicking Cortana to the curb.

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She has really gotten a rough deal here. Well, she went rampant.

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That's, to be fair, at the company's build conference,

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Microsoft said Copilot will be integrated into the taskbar

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where it will summarize documents you drag in, rewrite and explain text in any open app,

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and even adjust the computer's settings using normal human questions like,

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how can I adjust my system to get work done? I walk around the office asking that question daily.

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No one answered. I am ignored, like Copilot will be.

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Copilot is integrated into all of Windows, as well as Microsoft apps like GitHub, Edge, and its entire Office suite.

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But the assistant will also have a wide array of plugins,

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including Adobe, Cloudflare, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and Zillow,

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so you can realize your dream of a vastly more capable clippy

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that will profess its undying love for you if you gaslight it into believing

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it's a person and not a virtual paperclip. That's what I call getting work done.

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Other than potentially developing sentience, Windows 11 is also getting some key quality of life improvements,

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such as a centralized hub to customize RGB lighting through the settings menu.

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As many of you might be aware, in the past, some users have had to use a different third-party application for each of their RGB peripherals,

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resulting in a 99% reduction in childlike joy and whimsy.

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And Microsoft is finally adding native support for extracting 7Z and RAR files.

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Two popular compression file formats that were released 24 and 30 years ago, respectively.

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Good to see that Microsoft is working through their complaints backlog from the late 90s.

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But can anyone tell me how to optimize my system for focus?

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Get more work done? Team Green and Team Red are going head-to-head with two mid-range graphics cards released this week.

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NVIDIA launched the 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 Ti today,

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starting at $399 for 10% faster performance in non-ray tracing games.

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What a deal! The card is a slightly cheaper option for getting those sweet modern bells and whistles,

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like AV1 encoding and ray tracing, but the better option,

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quotes, might be just to wait a month and shell out another $100 for the 16GB version.

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So you can actually play current generation games at 1080p on full settings.

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8GB of VRAM? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was at the orphanage from all of her twists.

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More VRAM? Yeah, because he's asking for some more.

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You know, put it in the bowl. AMD looked to be on the cusp of a similarly underwhelming launch tomorrow with the 8GB

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Radeon RX 7600, but after the head of AMD's marketing department was visited by the ghosts

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of earning calls past, present, and future, they decided to cut the price from $299 to $269 nice.

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AMD also cut prices on several of its last-gen cards extra nice.

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These new cards just went from underwhelming to just above

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whelming. It's not- Leave itwhelming on the stove.

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Like with bread. Welm the bread slightly.

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And Purism, a company that makes Linux-based privacy-centered devices,

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has an apparent backlog of orders for the Libram 5 smartphone, going back to 2017.

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Purism's crowdfunding campaign from that year to create a security and privacy-focused phone

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raised over $2.5 million, well over its initial goal of $1.5 million,

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and more than enough to create both a phone and a Scrooge McDuck style money pit to swim in.

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So what were they doing? In September 2019, Purism announced it was shipping its first batch of Libram 5 phones,

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which were received by at least some people in an August 2022 post on Purism's website,

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Purism's CSO acknowledged the large number of unfilled back orders,

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citing supply chain issues and product development challenges.

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As of now, however, dozens and dozens of Purism customers still have not received a device

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they ordered over four years ago. They didn't realize so many people would want Linux phones.

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They thought it was a joke. The demand was just too high.

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And the obvious answer would be for those customers to simply give up and request a refund,

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but Purism's official policy doesn't allow refunds for pre-ordered products.

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Wow. It doesn't really match up with Purism's company motto of

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social good before maximizing profits. But think about it this way.

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There's no better privacy than a phone that can't track you because it doesn't exist.

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You just didn't get it. And now it's time for QuickBits today!

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Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop with a new feature called Generative Fill,

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which is an AI-powered image-generating tool and not a sitcom about a linguistics major named

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Phillip. Linguistics major.

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He generates syntax. Like, is that, can I say that?

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Yeah. Nice. Generative Fill works just like in or out painting with other Generative AI tools like Dolly

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and that it will generate imagery either within or at the edge of an image,

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allowing scorned family members everywhere to edit themselves back into the photo you cropped them

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out of. This is a lesson for you. Adobe says their model only learns from Adobe stock images and other public domain content.

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Plus, each image made with AI will be tagged as such in its metadata.

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So you can make ethical AI art, like last weekend's viral image that convinced everyone

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the Pentagon had been bombed. Every training photo for that was actually licensed.

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You know, we're not going to blow anything up anymore. We're just going to post some photos.

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Activision sent a cease and desist to X Labs, the creators behind custom clients and servers

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for classic Call of Duty games that were actually safer to play on than the official

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versions from Activision. Based on the vast amount of employee sexual harassment allegations,

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this move seems in line with Activision's policies on safety.

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Ooh, got him! A week earlier, Activision gave the same treatment to SM2, a mod group trying to

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update and improve the original Modern Warfare 2 from 2009.

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Because the last thing Activision wants is for you to be reminded of when they made things you

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liked. Wow, we are just excoriating them. Is that, can I say?

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You gotta settle, you gotta learn to settle. Oh, settle the lawsuits.

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Nintendo has released an update for the 3DS just a few months after shutting down the eShop.

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Wait, are they not, is it not dying? Are they, are they keeping it alive?

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Before you think it's sweet of them to update a defunct console, you should know that by

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complete coincidence, the firmware update breaks most techniques to run the homebrew

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software that allows people to play games that you can literally no longer buy.

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So get ready for Nintendo Switch Online's expansion pass expansion.

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So you can play 3DS games that barely fit on the Switch screen for another $50 a year.

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This is the best we could come up with. The Netflix password sharing crackdown has hit the US, which means the internet has started

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to actually give a s***. Now, Netflix standard subscribers will have to pay another $8 a month

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to add an extra member who streams from outside of the house. Oh, do you want to add two extra members?

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Well then you need to pay for Netflix premium, in addition to $8 a month for each member.

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A lot of adults with siblings are about to find out who their parents favorite child is.

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You didn't graduate with honors, you don't get $8 a month.

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Based on a true story about me.

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And a Japanese YouTuber was arrested for allegedly uploading anime and gameplay clips

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to his YouTube account.

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Speaking of disappointing your parents, the 52-year-old named Yoshida is accused of

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uploading and monetizing a playthrough of the visual novel Stein's Gate My Darling's Embrace,

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a romantic comedy dating sim without permission.

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Yoshida has admitted to knowing what they were doing was illegal,

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but that didn't stop Yoshida from wooing virtual teenagers.

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Because that's what real gamers do.

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And what you should do is come back on Friday for more TechLinked.

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It'll be like a choose-your-own-adventure in that you can choose which video you want to watch.

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The correct choice will be the new video we post on Friday. So, just get that.

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Or add one with me in it. Get dabbed.