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Microsoft announced a generative AI feature called Copilot for, I think, the fourth time at their

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September 21st event, which they aptly named the September 21st event. Yet they neglected to

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invite Earth, Wind, and Fire. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLink, and you could actually use

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Copilot for Windows 11 on September 26th, the same day that Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty

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expansion comes out. Now do you play with that or your new Microsoft-assigned mandatory best friend?

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They're not happy about it either. After announcing GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and

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Windows Copilot back in May, this new Copilot for Windows, with a fancy new logo, is as significant

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as the PC was to the 80s. The web in the 90s, mobile in the 2000s, and cloud in the 2010s,

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said Microsoft CEO and totally unbiased person, Satya Nadella. He has zero biases. He's like

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the gray people from Futurama. And while we know that Copilot is available now to Windows insiders,

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we don't know when OpenAI's newly announced Dolly 3, which will be integrated into a number

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of Microsoft products, will be available. But it sounds exciting. OpenAI claims the updated

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image generator has gotten better at listening more carefully to every word in your prompt,

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not just the least boring ones. Illustrated in this example image of Little Red Riding Hood

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bartering with steampunk Wilford Brimley. And Dolly 3 will be able to generate text,

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as illustrated by this depressed avocado talking to its natural predator, a spoon.

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Dolly 3 will be coming to Bing, so you can contextually update your prompts to create

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amazing, completely novel images, like brown-haired people putting on helmets.

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Microsoft also announced updates to their line of surface products. There's a sequel to the

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Surface Laptop Studio, a revolutionary device that dared to ask the question,

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what if a MacBook Pro was also an iPad? For those looking for a more affordable device,

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the Surface Laptop Go 3 keeps costs down by stopping at, what if a MacBook?

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I'm kidding, of course. The laptop Go 3 has a touchscreen.

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For anyone doing business, and no one else. The Surface Go 4 for business features a new

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processor inside the same body as the Go 3, and there's also a new Surface Hub 3

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that features new hardware upgrades and can be purchased as an entire unit,

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or a modular little cute little pack that can be inserted into existing Hub 2S models.

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It's for business. Yes, we pre-installed Candy Crush, you're not supposed to open it.

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And that's it, which is apparently why former Surface Lead, Penos Panay, left. Microsoft

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started cutting staff and pulling back on more experimental devices like the Surface Headphones

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and the Surface Pro X, which I'm sure some people wanted more of.

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Panay is now allegedly being hired by Amazon to replace their retiring hardware chief,

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Dave Limp. If you're wondering why he's retiring, his original name was Dave Normalwalk.

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Unity Technologies has revealed the updating pricing scheme they were forced to create

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after their first updated pricing scheme got similar critical reception to Jared Leto's

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seminal art piece, Morbius. It's unite in time. And just like that one, this one got a re-release.

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For those unfamiliar, Unity announced they'd be introducing a runtime fee that would be charged

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to developers whenever their Unity-based game was downloaded, after a certain threshold for

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revenue and install count was reached. Under the updated scheme, Unity personal subscribers

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will not be charged to any fees, and the revenue cap on games made with that plan will be increased

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from $100,000 to $200,000, which is the amount of money you make when you make $100,000 twice.

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Any Unity-made game that makes less than $1 million in a year will also not be charged the fee.

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Developers also now have the choice of being subject to the fee or paying 2.5% of their gross

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revenue instead. And Unity found the sense to not make the fee retroactive. It won't apply to games

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created using current versions of Unity unless they update to the new version when it launches

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alongside the runtime fee policy in January. Rami Ismail, one of the policy's largest critics,

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has given careful approval of the changes, so it sounds like Unity is doing right by the

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indie dev community. Uh, fingers crossed, I mean, we'll see. Frankly, it's honestly just refreshing

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for a company's executive to actually say in the blog post, I am sorry. Like that just,

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it doesn't happen, so well done. I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for these quick bits.

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No, nothing bad happened. I just want a break from talking.

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YouTube announced a few AI-powered features at its made-on YouTube event, including Dream Screen,

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an art-generating green screen effect to compete with TikTok, which has had a similar feature

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for months because literally everyone somehow ships AI-powered features faster than Google,

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the AI company. Generative AI tools in YouTube Studio will soon help creators spark video ideas

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and draft outlines personalized for their specific channels, generate translated audio

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dubs of their videos, and they can find backing songs simply using a description of the video,

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which in our case would probably bring up a ton of songs about clicking affiliate links.

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What do you want down there?

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They didn't pay us for that. Microsoft may finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King,

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according to reports. After the UK blocked the deal from going through, the country's

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competition regulator now says the new deal has addressed their previous concerns by agreeing

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to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft, who will be free to port cloud versions

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of Activision Blizzard games to any platform. The deal hopes to close by October,

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so Phil Spencer should have time to give his mom the ultimate Christmas gift.

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Criticisms have been levied against the build quality of the newly launched iPhone 15,

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and not even Tim Cook pretending to be a normal guy in an Apple store stopped them.

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Hi everyone, it's me, Normal Guy. Some users have claimed the 15s aren't as durable as the previous generation,

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and others have said the phones have uneven coloring.

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And when you're buying them to basically be jewelry, that's an issue. Apple has indicated that fingerprints might temporarily alter the color of the iPhone 15's

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titanium frame, but they didn't mention a fingernail can permanently scratch Apple's new

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durable, fine-woven cases. Well, there's a simple fix for that.

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Buy your mama nail trimmer. Restricted military documents have wound up on the War Thunder Forum,

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yet again, they cannot stop. This time, the documented question is the flight manual

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for the Lockheed F117 Nighthawk, including information like sensor locations, firing

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angles, and engine specifications. Moderators quickly deleted the thread,

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but this is at least the 10th time that an overheated War Thunder player has tried to prove

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a point by leaking sensitive military information. What does this keep happening?

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National security, winning this argument with Buttmuncher 69. Stop it. Just stop.

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Luckily, the document isn't technically classified, merely export restricted,

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so fingers crossed no one's getting court-martialed over this one.

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And a new study from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has broken new ground

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in using coffee grounds for 3D printing. Soon, we may be able to reframe our crippling bean

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addictions into a virtuous environmental push to reduce plastic waste by mixing the dry, refined

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coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders, and then using the research team's

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open-source printer adapter to create all kinds of biodegradable doodads. Even coffee cups.

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That sounds dangerous. Soon, all will be coffee, and coffee will be all.

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I don't want that. Don't hail the bean. Who summons the bean, Lord?

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But all we can do is ask you to come back on Monday for another episode of TechLinked,

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made entirely from coffee grounds. We're gonna try it. We're gonna see how it goes.