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Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.

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I'm just kidding. It's great to see you. Also, that's a weird insult. Microsoft has apparently patched a popular loophole

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that allowed users to install Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements.

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Why convince people to download your OS when you can just make it harder to upgrade

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for those who actually want to? This particular trick allowed anyone to bypass

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the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11

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by tricking the OS's setup file into thinking your machine was a server.

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Classic. Not a host. That's another computer and restaurant word.

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Unfortunately, Twitter user, TheBobPony, discovered that the most recent insider build

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of Windows now also requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support.

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This isn't the case in normal Windows yet,

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but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon. And that could leave you with a non-functional system

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if you use this workaround to install Windows 11. There are still other methods to install Windows 11

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without having TPM 2.0. For example, open source utility, Rufus,

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apparently has its own workaround too. I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed

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at patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, but I'm happy to have them try.

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That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 11.

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Just kidding, they'll make time. Procreate, the company behind the popular art app for iPad,

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have pledged to never add AI to their products.

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This is despite the existence of the 2010 song,

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Never Say Never by Justin Bieber. In a video posted by the company's Twitter account,

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CEO Jason Kuda said, I really f***ing hate generative AI.

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And Procreate's website features a page dedicated to their anti-AI stance.

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As a result, the company has received a lot of love from digital artists who probably are tired

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of having generative AI trained on their work without consent, but painters and illustrators

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aren't the only ones seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools.

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AI photo editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions about

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when a photo stops being a photo.

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Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app Halide

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has introduced a new feature called Process Zero,

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allowing users to take photos without any AI or image processing at all.

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Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, so now ironically, you need to pay a subscription

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to not use AI. National Public Data, or NPD for short,

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has finally confirmed it had a data breach, though they don't actually seem too sure.

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In their official statement, the data aggregator says there appears to have been a data security incident,

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as if hundreds of millions of people's data ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough.

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While many reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data

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was exposed, that's apparently not quite true. Web Security consultant Troy Hunt investigated it

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and found there were about 134 million unique email addresses.

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Yet NPD told the main attorney general's office that only 1.3 million people were affected,

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which would imply that they all have about 100 emails.

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That's normal non-degenerate behavior, right? It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy

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that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers,

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so every person affected by the breach must have also been born roughly 200 times.

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Now to be fair to NPD, millions of these records are for people who no longer are alive,

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so maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure.

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But it's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data

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because an NPD sister site published a file

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containing admin passwords on its homepage

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that was only removed today. Sure, we've been hacked before,

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but the hackers still had to put in some effort.

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How do you summon quick bits? Easy. Just go, wait, no, that's cats.

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Intel's upcoming Aero Lake S desktop CPU lineup

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is expected to arrive in October, a little fuller than anticipated.

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A little healthier, girthier. A leak courtesy of Jakein on Twitter lists 14 SKUs

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with two previously unseen Core Ultra 5 models,

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the 235 and 225. Another more different tweet from fellow leaker,

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OneRaichu, points to the lineup including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models

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with eight cores, likely four P cores and four E cores, although depending on who you're talking to,

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these aren't real E cores. Those have all gone to join hyper threading

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in the great outdated tech glossary in the sky. Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'etre

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is hyper affordable mini PCs, has launched a new even lighter two Gigabyte version

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of the Pi 5 down from four gigabytes. Beyond the two Gigabyte drop in memory

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and a newly optimized SOC, the rest of the Pi specs remain unchanged.

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It's also for just 50 bucks down from 60

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for consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles

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than double their available RAM. Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up

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with a one Gigabyte version or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number

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of pies, each with half the memory of the previous model,

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Xenos Paradox style, ask them total pies. Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference.

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The Zotac zone first revealed at CES has now gone up for pre-order in select regions,

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hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a steam deck,

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thanks to its dual touch pads, but is actually an $800 Windows handheld

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with a 120 Hertz OLED screen, hall effect joysticks, a selfie camera, and a kickstand.

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The real kicker though is the RGB strip on the back.

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Valve wouldn't do this to us. The zone reportedly officially launches in September,

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but I don't know who to trust at this point. According to tech radar, Google has quietly confirmed

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there will be no more Fitbit smartwatches produced.

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I'm shocked. No one was more shocked by the story, then Google as a spokesperson then told ours,

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Technica, that tech radar's article was not correct, but did not elaborate on any potential

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new Fitbit smartwatch products. This confused us because last week,

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the senior director of product management for Pixel wearables told in gadget

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that moving forward Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not smartwatches.

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So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing.

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That's fun. And Tesla is hiring workers to train

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its humanoid robot, Optimus, using mocap suits.

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Candidates must be reasonably fit in between 5.7 and 5.11.

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No big boys or short kings allowed. Unfortunately, this training might take millions

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of hours of data, meaning that the first sign of the robot apocalypse may be an epidemic

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of repetitive strain injuries. By contrast, Chinese company Unitree says

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it has a $16,000 mass production ready bot

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that can jump, jog, withstand kicks. Solder electronics and flip pancakes with training.

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It'll be the perfect bodyguard slash butler for all those average sized men

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with debilitating carpal tunnel. But it would be even more debilitating

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if you didn't come back on Wednesday for more tech news.

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I know when you aren't here, and frankly, it hurts.

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Almost as bad as my carpal tunnel. Ah!