Sometimes it's hard to tell what's tech news and what's not like if I put robot arms and legs on a banana. Is that tech news?
What about a mango? Microsoft says it wants everyone to upgrade to Windows 11 this year before Windows 10 loses official support in October
But at the same time they're making it more difficult to do so on unsupported hardware
The tech giant quietly deleted guidance about how to bypass Windows 11's TPM requirement from its own support page
Although you can still see the registry tweak instructions on the internet archive, which is as always
based but Microsoft has also blocked and labeled fly by 11 a
popular third-party utility that lets users skip the hardware requirements check in Windows 11 as
Malware according to the tools developer similar tools like Rufus still exist
But I'm guessing Microsoft isn't jazzed about those either. What do you want Microsoft?
It's like you invited everyone at school to your party and then only let in the ones who brought the invite with them like, okay
You have fun in there. We're gonna be playing twister on the lawn. It's the hot spot
Chinese AI company Deepsea got really popular recently
So of course a US senator has proposed a potential law that would criminalize
Importing it along with any tech developed in China on the threat of million-dollar fines and prison time
The bill is kind of like your mom saying we have AI at home
Including Google's new Gemini 2.0 models being rolled out for consumers and developers Google says they're pretty good
Maybe they'll be good enough to power weapon systems since Google just erased the section of their AI principles web page
That said the tech giant wouldn't let their AI be deployed for weapon systems
But it's preserved once more by the internet archive. You do you the best. I don't why I don't know why
But despite AI being added to guns and literally everything else
Anthropic is telling job applicants not to use it to help write their applications because they want to evaluate your non
AI-assisted communication skills. It's almost like there's some kind of
Value to forming thoughts using your own words
I'll have to ask chat GPT about that later Richest man in the world Elon Musk appears to be on a mission to access as much
Previously protected US government data as he can leading squads of his fellow special government employees
Which are also employees of private companies and even executives like new treasury staff member Tom Krause
Who is also currently the CEO of Citrix parent company cloud software group
Thomas Shed a Tesla engineer who is now the head of an IT group in the general services administration
And who suggested they make illegal changes to a government login system is yet another example of Elon's pension for
Funneling Tesla resources to his other private companies for which he's currently already being sued. What's another one big whoop
Musk having access to these kind of government resources that could be used to benefit the multiple federal contracts
He holds through SpaceX is a bit of a conflict of interest
So congressman mark pocan is working on a bill that would ban this practice called the
Eliminate looting of our nation by mitigating unethical state
Cleptocracy or the Elon musk act what no don't name it after him. He'll like that
Although he'd probably prefer you put an x in there somewhere to cherry on top you put robot limbs on a raspberry
That's not full tech news But it could be a quick bit
Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods are coming into effect and caused the u.s.
Postal service to briefly suspend all inbound parcels from china this morning
While they figured out what extra fees need to be tacked on the eu is also looking to tax
Chinese goods that were previously cheap enough to skirt customs duties
So prepare for your timu shine and gaming handhelds even to be less wallet friendly
China is apparently responding by opening antitrust investigations into google and apple
Which may end up hurting those companies But it's also something that america's own fdc was trying to do under previous chair lina kahn
But the government likes big tech now, so i'm sure the president is real torn up over what's happening to his friends
Open ai has dropped the sign-in requirement to use chat gpt search on the web
You can access it through chat gpt.com But open ai.com has also gotten a facelift along with a new logo the homepage features a big old prompt slash search bar
Just like google I'm probably going to keep using google just because asking an ai to search for me
Is only a little better than asking a fellow human what they know about a topic
And half the time these days they just pull out their phone and ask chat gpt We could just skip the middleman sonos has had a rough year
But now it thinks it has just a ticket The verge is reporting that part of the company's comeback plan is the launch of an Android-based streaming box
To help consumers forget about how the company's redesigned app
Borked people's expensive speaker setups last year the box could launch in april for 200 to 400 dollars
Signaling that sonos has totally fixed all of their glitches. Otherwise, why would they price it that high?
Think about it and researchers from invidia and carnagy melin university have published a framework
Allowing robots to copy the complex movements of top athletes like christiano rinaldo and
LeBron James Why say it like that? That's how you say it or at least try to copy their movements. They're doing their best
But sadly, they're still not quite stable enough to use as a platform for this actual working plasma cannon
With a 35 foot range developed by slightly insane engineer greg lee
Maybe next time though, and maybe this friday. You'll come back for more tech news
I should have a better grasp of what fruits and vegetables do and don't qualify for tech news by then
I figured out what are you talking about? You just I came in late. You're missing the context