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Welcome aboard Technic Flight 330 with non-stop service

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from the chip shortage to whatever insane new robot is doing martial arts.

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Fasten your seatbelts, stow your hot takes, and prepare for a rapid descent into tech news.

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Love you. Microsoft has confirmed major improvements

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are coming to Windows 11's search after years of complaints and anguish,

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gnashing of teeth. Search wasn't explicitly part of Microsoft's

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recent Windows 11 overhaul announcement, but after users took to Twitter to point out

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how broken and cluttered it still is, referencing the meme of how searching terminal

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is a crapshoot between finding the actual terminal and the critically reviled 2018 neo-noir thriller terminal,

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which you have on your PC for some reason, or you don't and Edge thinks that's what you want.

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Windows shell product head, Tali Roth, confirmed that search fixes are also in the works.

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She said, a lot of improvements are coming with the goal of making search simpler and less distracting,

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including making installed apps appear instantly.

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Can you keep in core system tools always discoverable

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and ranking local files higher than web suggestions?

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Truly revolutionary. Microsoft also says that they're going to plague

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their own OS with progressive web apps less

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and move more towards building more 100% native Windows 11 apps.

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Rudy Hoyn, a partner architect at Microsoft, announced he's hiring for the team that's going to do this

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and confirmed the apps will be 100% native

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since even flagship tools like Clipchamp are currently web apps.

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Don't even get me started on teams. This all sounds great,

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but Microsoft might wanna figure out how to ship a working update first

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because their last update yet again had to be pulled after it somehow shipped

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without all of its files. Real dog ate my homework energy

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happening over there at Windows. It was right here.

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The White House launched an app last Friday,

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sparking a massive viral panic over the weekend.

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The controversy was triggered when a researcher decompiled the code

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and put out a blog post reporting that there was a third-party GPS tracking pipeline

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baked into the app, configured to pull your location every four and a half minutes,

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which wouldn't seem that weird for an app that asks location permission,

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but why does the White House app need that? Initial reports took the findings at face value

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with headlines claiming the app was actively tracking users exact locations

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and sinking them to a third-party server, but follow-up analysis

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by multiple independent developers confirmed the GPS code is dormant

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and was never actually invoked, summoned, if you will.

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The app was positioned in a White House blog post

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as a direct line to the administration, delivering unparalleled access

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to Trump administration live streams, press releases, his private discord, I don't know.

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It's mostly just kind of an unnecessary portal that opens external websites.

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Android Authority described the social tab as buggy with constant stuttering,

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and it includes a button to text President Trump

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that auto-populates the chat with greatest president ever

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before trying to sign you up for a marketing blast, in case you weren't sure what was going on here.

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White House communications director Steven Chung encouraged users to download it,

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saying users would find some little Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the app.

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If you find them all, you'll get to pre-order a framed picture of the Trump phone,

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because that's all it's gonna be is a picture. Swift, Apple's coding language,

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can now officially be used to build Android apps,

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which is actually kind of a bigger deal than you might think. The Swift 6.3 update includes the first stable version

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of a toolkit that lets developers write Android apps using the same language they've been using

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to make iPhone apps for over a decade. This update was actually part of a community effort.

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A dedicated Android work group spent about a year

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getting it from an early preview to an official release. Now, this doesn't mean Android is suddenly

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running on Apple code or anything. Android apps are still mostly built

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in Google's preferred languages, Kotlin and Java.

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But Swift now includes built-in translator tools

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that let devs drop chunks of their existing iPhone app code

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into an Android project without rewriting everything from scratch.

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Gandalf voice. Welcome, iPhone developers.

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Let me tell you of a language that was in use before you even learned to touch type.

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The toolkit is mostly useful for sharing the backend logic between platforms.

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So if you're a developer who already built something for iPhone and wants it on Android 2,

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this update just saved you a lot of busy work. I'm pretty sure the Quickbits have climbed out

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under the wing and are ripping pieces off the plank and someone please tell the pilot we're gonna go down.

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Ah! GitHub co-pilot got caught sneaking ads

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into developers' code submissions because apparently they thought that was helpful.

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Writing code? Hmm, do you need a vacuum?

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Microsoft's favorite slop child was quietly inserting promotional tips,

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including plugs for a third-party app called Raycast

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into pull request descriptions and over 11,000 were found with the exact same ad copy.

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GitHub's VP of DevRelations confirmed the behavior and said they've disabled it, calling it, quote, icky.

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You know, things are bad when your own platform gives you the ick.

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Sony, the company that literally invented the memory stick,

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just stopped accepting orders for the majority of its lineup of SD

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and CF Express memory cards in Japan, making them the global memory shortages

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most ironic victim. They get a trophy, I think.

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The suspension covers everything from high-end, tough branded cards down to basic models

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with no timeline for when they'll come back. Data centers are eating up so much memory

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that even the little cards photographers sticking their cameras are getting squeezed out.

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Sony's only comment was, we'll monitor the situation,

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which is Corpo speak for. We have no idea what's going on.

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Please help. What are we supposed to do?

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Break into their office and be like, hey, it's okay. It'll be fine.

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Anime Play, one of the biggest, less than legal anime streaming apps

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in the Asia Pacific region just got completely dismantled

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by the Anti-Piracy Coalition, otherwise known as ACE.

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The app had over five million users and was being run by a single guy

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out of Indonesia since 2020. When ACE tracked him down, he surrendered everything.

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Source code, servers, databases, basically his entire operation.

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ACE also seized 15 associated domains.

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So this is really more of a full scorched earth, take no prisoners, take down against the service.

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And in one fell swoop, the pirate weebs quest for the one piece

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suffered a major setback. I've never seen the show. Tell me if that's a valid reference.

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And researchers in South Korea have developed a wireless communication system

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that works 100 meters underground

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using magnetic fields instead of radio waves

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to punch through solid rock. Okay.

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We tested it in a limestone mine environment that's known for completely blocking

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traditional wireless signals and it worked well enough for voice communication.

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The goal of the project is to improve the technology for rescue operations and mine safety,

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but they're already reportedly looking at shrinking it down for smartphones.

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Finally, we'll have better internet for the mole people.

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They've been asking us, hey,

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Wi-Fi sucks. Sorry. And those same mole people will use their better internet

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to track you, oh, if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news,

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somehow that's related. Well, oh, we've reached our destination.

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Please collect your opinions from the overhead bin and exit in an orderly fashion.

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What, we don't want them to comment the opinions?