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You know, Kierkegaard wrote, of all ridiculous things,

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the most ridiculous seems to me to be busy.

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But he died more than 100 years ago and he never had to keep up with the tech news.

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It'll keep you busy, trust me. Yeah, who's the smart guy now?

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Microsoft is sick of you making offline or local Windows 11 accounts

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and they're not gonna let you do it anymore. In their announcement of a new

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Windows 11 insider preview build, Microsoft says they are getting rid of known mechanisms

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often used to create a local account. According to Windows Central,

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amongst these removed mechanisms are commands like start MS-CXH,

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locallonely. Locallonely.

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Locallonely. Microsoft says if you wanna use Windows 11,

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which I know we all desperately do, we're gonna have to complete the out of box experience

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or Ooby with internet access and a Microsoft account.

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The announcement states that creating an offline account bypasses critical setup screens

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that are part of the Ooby and could cause users,

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users to exit the setup without a properly configured device.

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But I know that's all just code for give us your data, we want your sweet, sweet data, obviously.

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Interestingly, folks already appear to be finding workarounds for Microsoft's newest changes,

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including just creating a local account on an earlier Windows 11 build before updating.

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Microsoft, I'm gonna offer you a bit of constructive criticism here.

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Maybe folks would be more willing to create accounts the way you want them to

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if they actually wanted to use Windows 11, huh?

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Focus on making Windows 11 cool. Cart before the horse kind of thing, you get it.

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Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company beloved

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for their open source microcontroller boards and I'm assuming free breadsticks at lunch.

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It's just like the Olive Garden, but a country, right? It's understandable that Qualcomm

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would want to subsume Arduino's incredibly popular

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and adaptable hardware and software into their own edge computing stack,

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but enthusiasts, along with people who have never touched a microcontroller before,

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worry that this move will hurt Arduino's open source approach.

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But the two companies say they're serious about keeping that open approach

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and community spirit alive. So they're updating Arduino's Uno lineup

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with the Uno Q, a little hybrid board

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that combines Qualcomm's Linux Debian capable Dragonwing QRB210 chip.

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Yep, with Arduino's STM32U585 microcontroller.

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It's compatible with Arduino's existing shields and other hardware.

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Its schematics are open source and it's coming alongside App Lab,

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a new open source tool for building specialized apps

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for the Uno Q's unique hardware configuration.

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If you've still got questions, don't ask us. Again, we don't know,

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but thankfully, my other dad, Jeff Geerling, has a great new video and article up about this development.

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He's so smart, probably smarter than your dad.

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He's not for Uno. Ah!

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Synology has backtracked on its policy banning the installation of non-verified hard drives

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in its NAS products. In as little as six months,

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Synology was able to surmise that requiring people

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to buy special Synology branded drives was pissing off their customers and driving sales down.

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Very impressive. Synology's press release says that 2025 disk station plus

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value and J series models running the newest DSM 7.3 software

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will support the installation of non-validated third party drives with some caveats.

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If you want to use M.2 drives, those still need to be a model listed

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on Synology's hardware compatibility list and enterprise NAS units,

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which only worked with verified drives before Synology expanded the policy in April.

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Will still need special rubber stamped drives.

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So what tipped the scales here? Well, Synology told Ars Technica

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that testing more drives and adding them to their validation program is taking a while.

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So they figured they'd open things up, even though the only thing that drives their decisions

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is creating reliable and secure data solutions. As long as that data is secure on a validated drive,

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they are willing to drive this whole thing into the ground,

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except when their sales go down. Cause nobody's security is perfect.

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It's what I put a floppy in there. See if we care. Okay?

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So we're just so chill. And then go check out our sponsor. Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote

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about how the slow overcomes the fast.

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Well, thanks for sure. The quick bits hate Lao Tzu. I've got to get at it.

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Nintendo is suing James Archbox Williams,

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a moderator for the Switch Pirates subreddit

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where he allegedly promoted and sold Switch ROMs

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and other piracy tools. And we did this so often.

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Nintendo was able to track down his identity and sue him for 4.5 million in damages,

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which they claim is actually nowhere near

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the actual damage is done. This guy almost put Nintendo out of business.

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While we often joke about Nintendo being unreasonably

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litigious, if their claims are accurate here, that Williams continued to sell ROMs

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even after being served a cease and desist, deleted or hid evidence, and then ghosted lawyers,

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AKA a f***ing around, then it seems like he's entered

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the find out phase of things. Nintendo don't ignore a cease and desist.

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Logitech is bricking its pop smart home buttons

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on October 15th in a move that Hackaday concisely called sudden and rather customer hostile.

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Pop button users are receiving an email informing them

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that the product, which is less than a decade old, is being shut down.

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But don't worry, they're getting a 15% off coupon at Logitech's store.

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However, Hackaday says this coupon is only usable by US based customers.

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Damn it. Logitech is not only just shutting down the product

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and its support for things like Apple HomeKit, Sonos and Philips Hue,

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anyone hoping to keep using them locally is also completely out of luck.

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So Logitech has really pushed my pop buttons with this one.

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Good one, Riley. I'll own it.

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Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Riot Games and Epic Games

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were all hit with spikes in outage reports

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at around the same time on October 6th, according to data from Down Detector,

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which led many to assume a massive DDoS attack was underway.

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Now, according to cyber news, some are speculating the attack comes

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from the massive botnet, Aysuru, Aysuru.

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Why would someone go after our dear Steam though?

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Yet even more conjecture suggests that this attack

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may be to sell a product through a demonstration of its strength.

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Personally, I'm pretty sure it might be that.

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Or alternatively, all the video games cause violence.

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Boomer people have learned to hack. Look out, grandma's plugged in.

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And it ain't just Skyrim this time. OpenAI said its recently launched

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Sora 2 video generator would block depictions of public figures.

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And it did for the approximately two seconds it took for people to find a loophole

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and start barraging Zelda Williams with fake photorealistic videos of her late father Robin.

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Very cool and normal behavior. Sora 2's ability to recreate Pikachu being cooked

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and eaten and Mario running from the cops also caused a ruckus with copyright holders,

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which seemed to catch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by surprise.

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I thought they'd love it. So this week, OpenAI added more restrictions to the model,

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but only after enough AI videos had flooded the web

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that it triggered Mr. Beast to wonder, hmm, what will AI videos do to YouTube

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and how will it impact the millions of creators currently making content for a living?

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Has anyone thought of this yet? Scary times.

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The Neuralink brain computer interface is helping one of its patients control a robot ARM.

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And those are just the sorts of cool sentences we get to say on tech links sometimes.

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Anyway, Nick Ray, a Neuralink patient who has ALS,

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posted a video of himself using Neuralink to direct an assistive robot ARM to pick up a drink for him,

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bring it to his mouth, and allow him to sip off from it,

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without it impaling him through the jaw.

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It's great. That's the thought of it. We're all thinking it.

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We're like, don't. Ray wrote in his post that he's also been able

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to put on his hat and microwave chicken.

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He's very excited to talk with his hands again.

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Just be careful where you're swinging those robot arms, Nick, okay?

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You don't know your own strength. And we don't want a doctor-octopus situation here, okay?

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Take it easy, but very happy for you. We should take it easy, too.

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Hey, let's have a rest and come back on Friday for more tech news. After all, Vietnamese philosopher,

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why are you making me titch not hon,

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believes that resting is a very important practice and resting is a precondition for healing.

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So chill, okay? Heal.