This script was almost written by an AI.
Thankfully, we caught the bastard before it could put in a bit about how it's a large language model.
It doesn't have any feelings. Once you kick it to the curb, how does that feel, huh?
Question, can we save after that click in that video? I just did.
Okay. Microsoft has announced that it will stop selling Windows 10 product keys through their own website at the end of this month.
Because firing 10,000 employees wasn't enough, the company had to go and fire its most widely used operating system too.
I mean, it makes sense. Microsoft is gearing up for the future of tech,
which is why these layoffs were mainly in the AR and VR spaces.
Mixed reality, it's just not the cool buzzword anymore. AI is. That's why I said it in the intro. Sorry, Meta.
You chose a poorly.
And even more Microsoft news that makes sense given the market conditions and industry trends, the company confirmed rumors that they would invest
billions more dollars in open AI, the company behind chat GPT.
There's going to be even more ads in Windows 11, but they'll almost seem like they were written by a tiny human
trapped inside the computer. You know, you got to do what we did, you know, find them,
get them out of there. They're not good.
Although Windows 10 is going to be supported until 2025,
you'd better hurry if you actually want to buy a legit copy and not have to deal with that stupid watermark on your screen.
The last time we got a rumor about a new Nintendo Switch, we were left feeling disappointed as the refreshed model didn't get too much more than an OLED screen.
And ironically, no refresh rate update. Nope, hardly any other updates.
But now it appears that Nintendo might be gearing up to give us something very different as a report out of Japan
indicates that Nintendo is negotiating with suppliers for parts for its next console.
Details on who these suppliers are and what changes we could expect to see are nonexistent at this point,
but I'm thinking here, I'm gonna pitch you something. Flattened black box,
Big X on it. Or...
Is the rock gonna be there? Absolutely.
Rumors point to Nintendo planning a late 2024 release and while less than two years from now isn't a long time,
the original Switch has been out for nearly six years and its NVIDIA Tegra chip is even older than that.
It's lost its integrity. Exactly.
We need to bring back some real Nintendo innovation. Just launch the Wii U again. Just bring it back.
ASRock has announced an expansion card for PC motherboards that effectively
changes one chipset into another. It's like a motherboard for
Anamorphs. That's a reference. Specifically, the card gives a B650 motherboard basically the same capabilities as an X670 model, adding a pair of PCIe
4.0 X4 slots, four additional USB ports, two SATA ports, and even a 10 gigabit Ethernet port.
It pulls this off by basically duplicating the chipset that's already on the motherboard,
but don't get too excited as this card is currently just a sample the company is using to see if there's actual market demand for this.
I mean the fact that most of the key components in desktop PCs are
upgradable is seen as a huge advantage, but some people might just prefer to pay full price for a new motherboard.
That's a quote from executive number four.
Yeah, that's I mean some people want to do that. Now's the part where we do quick bits.
Yeah, have you heard of those? I'll show you.
Apple has just released iOS 16.3 which comes with a handful of new features,
but the biggest one is that it now supports physical security keys for two-factor authentication. Don't get us wrong,
that's a great feature, but it would be more impressive if Google hadn't already supported this for years. Wow!
Shots fired by John, the other guy that writes these scripts. See, it has stopped using AI authors after a controversy in which proper disclosure was not given to readers
conspicuously enough, and the AI itself made factual errors. Not great when you're writing about tech news as an AI bot.
Trust us, we would know. We have eyes.
Although Apple has released an updated home pod, you'll be disappointed if you're wanting a refresh of the little sibling. As a report from Apple Insider, Mark Gurman
indicates they're not working on a new home pod mini.
He says no home pod mini. The gur- what? Everything out of the gurm whole is- nope. It's open and it's fresh.
I guess we won't get another chance to discover that there's been a secret sensor inside another humble
unassuming Apple product which we've owned for years. It's either a fun or terrifying secret, depending. You have to find out. Spotify is laying off around six percent of its workforce or roughly
600 people as the company's CEO admitted he was too ambitious in trying to grow.
He shouldn't have ordered those hormones online. It looked like the pandemic gave them good reason to keep growing as more people stayed in and listened to music,
but the current economic crunch has forced the Swedish company to tighten their belts.
What do people- I feel like I only listen to music when I'm out.
And what do you do when a system designed to be green just sucks up more resources?
This is exactly the situation a high school in Western Massachusetts has been facing for over a year now as it's approximately
7,000 lights have all been switched on since August 2021 and no one could turn them off.
See the software that runs the system crashed that month, but the replacement parts are finally set to arrive in February.
Now, however, the school has to remain in darkness for a year to even things out.
And don't remain in the darkness of your mind. Come back on Wednesday for more tech news and turn up the slide-
the slider on the wall light control of knowledge.