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Welcome aboard TechRadar flight 330 with non-stop service from the chip shortage

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to whatever insane new robot is doing martial arts. Fasten your seat belts,

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stow your hot takes, and prepare for a rapid descent into tech news. Love you.

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Microsoft has confirmed major improvements are coming to Windows 11

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search after years of complaints and

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anguish, 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

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

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searching terminal is a crapshoot between finding the actual terminal and

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the critically reviled 2018 neo-noir thriller Terminal, which you have on

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

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>> [laughter] >> Windows Shell product head Tali Roth

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confirmed that search fixes are also in the works. She said, "A lot of

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improvements are coming with the goal of making search simpler and less

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distracting, including making installed apps appear instantly." Can you keeping

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core system tools always discoverable and ranking local files higher than web

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suggestions. Truly revolutionary.

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Microsoft also says that they're going to plague their own OS with progressive

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web apps less and move more towards building more 100% native Windows 11

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apps. Rudy Huyn, a partner architect at Microsoft, announced he's hiring for the

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team that's going to do this and confirmed that the apps will be 100%

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native since even flagship tools like Clipchamp are currently web apps.

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>> [music] >> Don't even get me started on Teams. This all sounds great, but Microsoft might

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want to figure out how to ship a working update first because their last update,

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yet again, had to be pulled after it somehow shipped without all of its

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files. Real dog ate my homework energy

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happening over there at Windows. >> Well, I thought it was right here. The

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White House launched an app last Friday, sparking a massive viral panic over the

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weekend. Controversy was triggered when a researcher decompiled the code and put

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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 4 and 1/2 minutes,

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which wouldn't seem that weird for an app that

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asks location permission, but why does the White House app need that? Initial

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reports took the findings at face value with headlines claiming the app was

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actively tracking users' exact locations and sending them to a third-party

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server, but follow-up analysis by multiple independent developers

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confirmed the GPS code is dormant and was never actually invoked, summoned if

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you will. The app was positioned in a White House blog post as a direct line

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to the administration, delivering unparalleled access to Trump

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administration live streams, press releases, his private Discord, I don't

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

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websites. Android Authority described the social tab as buggy with constant

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stuttering and it includes a button to text President Trump that auto populates

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the chat with "greatest president ever" before trying to sign you up for a

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marketing blast, in case you weren't sure what was going on here. White House

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Communications Director Steven Cheung encouraged users to download it saying

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

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

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that's all it's going to be is a picture. Uh, Swift, Apple's coding language, can now

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officially be used to build Android apps, which is actually kind of a bigger

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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

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they've been using to make iPhone apps for over a decade. This update was

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actually part of a community effort. A dedicated Android workgroup spent about

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a year getting it from an early preview to an official release. Now, this

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doesn't mean Android is suddenly running on Apple code or anything. Android apps

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are still mostly built in Google's preferred languages, Kotlin and Java.

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But Swift now includes built-in translator tools that let devs drop

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chunks of their existing iPhone app code into an Android project without

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rewriting everything from scratch. Gandalf's voice. WELCOME, I SUMMON

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DEVELOPERS. Let me tell you of a language that was in use before you even

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learn to touch type. The toolkit is mostly useful for sharing the back-end

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logic between platforms. So, if you're a developer who already built something

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for iPhone and wants it on Android, too, this update just saved you a lot of busy

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work. And if all of that cross-platform coding has your wrists crying for help,

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below. I'm pretty sure the quick bits have climbed out of under the wing and

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are ripping pieces off the plane. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE PILOT WE'RE

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GOING TO GO DOWN? >> [screaming] >> GITHUB COPILOT got caught sneaking ads

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into developers' code submissions because apparently they thought that was

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helpful. Writing code? Hmm. Do you need

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a vacuum? Microsoft's favorite slop child was quietly inserting promotional

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tips, including plugs for a third-party app called Raycast, into pull request

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descriptions. And over 11,000 were found with the exact same ad copy. GitHub's VP

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of dev relations confirmed the behavior and said they've disabled it, calling

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it, "quote, icky." You know things are bad when your own platform gives you the

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ick. Sony, the company that literally invented the memory stick, just stopped

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accepting orders for the majority of its lineup of SD and CFexpress memory cards

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in Japan, making them the global memory shortage's most ironic victim. They get

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a trophy, I think. The suspension covers everything from high-end tough branded

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cards down to basic models with no timeline for when they'll come back.

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Data centers are eating up so much memory that even the little cards

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photographers stick in their cameras are getting squeezed out. Sony's only

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comment was, "We'll monitor the situation." Which is corpo speak for,

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"We have no idea what's going on. Please help. What are we supposed to do?"

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Break into their office and be like, "Hey, it's okay."

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>> [laughter] >> It'll be fine. AnimePlay, one of the

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biggest less-than-legal anime streaming apps in the Asia-Pacific region, just

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got completely dismantled by the anti-piracy coalition, otherwise known

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as ACE. The app had over 5 million users and was

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being run by a single guy out of Indonesia since 2020. When ACE tracked

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him down, he surrendered everything. Source code, servers, databases,

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basically his entire operation. ACE also seized 15 associated domains. So, this

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is really more of a full scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners take-down against the

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service. And in one fell swoop, the pirate weebs' quest for the One

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

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valid reference. And researchers in South Korea have developed a wireless

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communication system that works 100 m

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underground using magnetic fields instead of radio waves to punch through

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solid rock. Okay. They tested it in a

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limestone mine environment that's known for completely blocking traditional

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wireless signals, and it worked well enough for voice communication. The goal

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of the project is to improve the technology for rescue operations and

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mine safety, but they're already reportedly looking at shrinking it down

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for smartphones. Finally, we'll have better internet for

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the mole people. They've been asking us, "Hey,

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Wi-Fi sucks." Sorry. And those same mole

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people will use their better internet to track you. Uh-oh, if you don't come back

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on Wednesday for more tech news. Somehow

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uh that's related. Well, oh, we've reached our destination. Please collect

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your opinions from the overhead bin and exit in an orderly fashion. What we

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don't want them to comment the the opinions?