Okay, hey, hey, I just finished watching all the Andorre episodes for this week, so so yeah here in it made me cry
Here's tech news Microsoft is giving another shot at rolling out Windows Recall the AI feature
Exclusive to co-pilot plus PCs that records everything you do and inspired huge backlash over security and privacy concerns
When it was first announced Microsoft eventually recalled recall, but it's been nearly a year and I mean
You guys forgot all about that, right? So I'm just gonna slip this in here. Let me slip this into your system
Just don't worry about it. Yeah, don't mind me to be clear
If you don't have a new co-pilot plus laptop with an NPU in it
You're not gonna get this feature and Microsoft has tried to make it very secure
It's opt-in has various filtering options requires you to encrypt your data and unlock it with Windows
Hello, and they say it's processed entirely locally and not shared with Microsoft or anyone else, but
Some think recall can never be properly secure because did you think about other people?
Sending sensitive info to a person with a recall laptop
Even if it's deleted on the laptop it could live on as a recall snapshot and then get stolen by a hacker who dupes
Windows Hello using a 3d printed replica of your face
I told you you shouldn't have posted the model on printables.com
Thankfully recall apparently can be completely uninstalled something. I still don't entirely believe but in the same update
Microsoft is also rolling out the AI powered improved Windows search and
Click to do which will let you hold the Windows key and click to see contextual actions
You can take depending on the content of your screen. It's like a right click, but
Um, it's a right click, but Microsoft giveth and take it away. You're getting new AI features
But Microsoft is killing Windows Maps. Oh
No, don't worry Bing Maps is alive and well. Hello. No, no, no, no, no, no
It's not just open AI everybody wants to buy Chrome during Google's search antitrust remedies trial
Yahoo search exec Brian provost testified that his company is totally down to acquire Chrome the value of which he
Estimated at tens of billions of dollars and that's a sum that he claims Yahoo can procure
possibly through methods involving the occult or 3d printed face masks at a AI search company
Perplexity meanwhile would actually prefer that Google keep Chrome rather than sell it to someone like open AI
Who already expressed their interest, but if a sale is forced
Then sure perplexity would also like to buy one Chrome, please
It would work well with their CEO Erivin Srinivas's plan to build a browser with even more user tracking to enable
hyper-personalized ads He knows users don't like ads, but they haven't even experienced ads that know what you dreamt about last night
Don't knock it till you try it Srinivas made the comment on a podcast with two finance bros who look like they start each day with
Smoothies made from cocaine and season one of succession. They don't sprinkle in any media literacy. It makes it taste worse
Perplexity's real problem with Google isn't Chrome though. It's their restrictive policies
Perplexity's app will be pre-loaded on Motorola's phones including the new lineup of razor folding phones
But it won't be the default assistant because Google allegedly wouldn't let that be anything but Gemini
Which doesn't have ads yet, but when it does
They're gonna be medium personalized at best
YouTube is doing what they do best and experimenting with new ways to make their platform worse
Some users have reported seeing a new video player UI
Complete with glitched out elements now some of these screenshots are from systems that clearly have some YouTube altering
Extension installed so I'm not sure how worrisome this is. I'd prefer to worry about our sponsor
No, just kidding not yet I'd prefer to worry about Google testing a YouTube version of AI
Overviews a YouTube blog post says they're testing a new video results carousel
For some premium subscribers in the US which will use AI to highlight specific clips from videos relevant to your search
Now however that plays out Google will probably tell investors that it went great in their Q1 financial results
The tech giant bragged that AI Overviews in search have 1.5 billion users per month
Proving you too can successfully grow a user base if you make your new service something people have to scroll past in order to use your old
Service developers pay attention these quick bits aren't as good as and or almost nothing is and I have to be okay with that
Gigabyte has responded to reports from a small number of users who noticed some kind of gel
oozing out from their RTX 50 series GPUs the company admitted that for some early production batches of their graphics cards
someone in the factory May have added a bit too much of the specially formulated thermal gel that's used in place of thermal pads
It shouldn't affect the performance of the card. It's just you know, someone thought hey
Might as well put some extra gel in there You know don't tell me you've never gotten a bit excited about gel
pre-orders for the Nintendo switch to went live this week and they were
Predictably a bit of a gong show with store sites buckling under the weight of hordes of handheld gamers
Mashing f5 to get their orders in and they have stronger than average fingers despite Nintendo's strict requirements for pre-ordering
Reports of pre-order scalping have already emerged
So watch out for those listings and also watch out for switch to game cards
Pretending to be a game card when really they're a game key card that just lets you download the game
Apparently most third-party switch to games will be like that
Aka There'll be liars Meta has announced that they'll be cracking down on spammy content on Facebook and
Reducing monetization and reach for that kind of stuff on the platform
And you know, they're not sure how or why that stuff got on there
It's certainly not because Facebook themselves have heavily incentivized the flooding of their own platform with AI slop
It can't be that but however it got there they are putting their foot down
This stuff's got to go and we all agree on that and the slate truck is an entirely American made
Compact electric modular vehicle with no stereo and a price of
$20,000 after federal EV rebates making it perfectly designed to address multiple issues plaguing the current economy
It's actually weirding me out a little bit slate auto did some gorilla marketing with the slate truck to demonstrate
How its minimalistic gray body can be almost endlessly customized, but they're not selling these outside of the US and now
I'm okay with Canada being the 51st state. Can we get that rolling actually? I'm just kidding. I'm just get I'm just kidding
Geez, it's like you can't even make jokes anymore
Put on a tariff as a prank and even when you take it off and then put on another one
They everyone's like hey stop and it's like geez
Anyway more tech news on Monday see you then