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I've been working on the funniest tech news intro ever.

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It's not ready. You're not It's too soon. You're not ready for it yet. Tech

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news first. Maybe later. Be good. >> Microsoft has heard Windows users loudly

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saying they don't want an agentic OS.

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But that's clearly because you just don't get it. You're confused. It's

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okay. Let them explain in their support article which describes how secure AI

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agent workspaces will give agents access to shared folders and allow them to work

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in the background for you completing tasks while you do other weird human

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things. Gross. But despite Microsoft's helpful explanation, enthusiasts don't

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seem to be swayed. No one wants to use an agentic Windows. And so one intrepid

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writer from the verge took one for the team and spent a week trying to interact

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with co-pilot the way Microsoft wants us to and found that co-pilot made his

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computer feel incompetent projecting

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>> it had a crisis of confidence >> but apparently it's competent enough to

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install malware as Microsoft's own

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article states these kinds of agents would still be vulnerable to malicious

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prompts that may be embedded in emails documents or web pages for For some

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reason, Microsoft seems hellbent on making Windows worse instead of better.

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Like, why not do what this programmer did and turn the OpenGL 3D Maze screen

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saver from Windows 95 into a playable game demo thing?

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>> What the Wait, it's your James. It's your shirt. >> He already did that. But there are so

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many more screen savers. Do the pipes one next. We have a shirt for that, too.

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>> I didn't even know you were this

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on purpose. Epic Games and Unity are joining forces to let Unity developers

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publish their games directly inside Fortnite through its island discovery

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system and in doing so tap into its creator economy payouts, giving small

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dev teams instant access to one of the biggest audiences in gaming. The plan

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goes along perfectly with Tim Sweeny's vision of Fortnite as an open metaverse

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where people can not just play, but live their entire lives as Homer Simpson

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Avatar who communicates entirely through K-pop inspired emotes.

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>> Do one. >> I don't know. >> Yes. >> The agreement will also see Unity

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support games made with Unreal Engine on their recently announced commerce

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dashboard, which lets creators manage pricing, payments, promotions, and

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digital cataloges on multiple platforms. We're talking about a fairly deep

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collaboration between two of the most popular game engines here. Maybe Timothy

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Sweetener is right. This already is his metaverse and we're just living in it.

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>> Zuck right over there. >> Zucks in. >> Hi. >> That's meta meta.

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>> Yeah, that's that's so meta. >> Pebble, the once discontinued fan

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favorite smartwatch seemed like it was flying high after being revived. But now

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it's hit some turbulence. The community finds itself torn between Core Devices,

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which now builds new Pebble hardware under original founder Eric Migog Skin

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Geek and Rebel. This is hilarious that

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they're called Rebel, the nonprofit that has maintained the Pebble App Store and

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cloud services since the original company shut down. Just weeks ago, both

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sides announced a deal. Core would build a new App Store front end. Rebel would

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continue running the back end. And together, they'd support all Peber

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users, new and old, and dead. Probably such an old device. But talks broke down

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over who ultimately controls the app store data, which consists of roughly

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13,000 apps and watch faces that Rebel has maintained since the servers were

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shut down in 2018. Rebel says Core demanded unrestricted access, which they

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fear could allow Core to build a closed proprietary store and leave Rebel

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behind. And they also accuse Core of scraping their publicly available data

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in violation of the agreement. [music] Core counters that the data shouldn't

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belong to anyone. What they want is an open public archive to keep Pebble

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accessible and that the scraping Rebels referring to was just Eric using a

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simple web tool to browse watch faces. >> Eric does that all the time. He doesn't

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scrape. He's not a scraper. >> Both sides claim they're protecting

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Pebble's future, which looks increasingly uncertain as long as mom

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and dad keep fighting. Please stop. But hey, at least the watches still tell the

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with a full Wolf Pack of options with three adjustable air levels and four

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kitchen ain't the same as cleaning up a campsite. So, get you an air duster that

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can do both. Speaking of camping, the Wolf Box has a

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flame retardant handle and square bottom, just how I like them, and it can

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be used to extinguish fires. It's wireless, portable, handheld,

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lightweight, and has an optional removable battery, so you can double its

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usage time. When you use this air duster, you're going to be saying, "Who

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let the dogs out?" Cuz it's got powerful wind speed and wind pressure, just like

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those dogs chasing Liam Niss in that movie. You know the one. Wolfbox Black

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Friday sale starts November 20th. There are big deals across all platforms, so

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don't miss out. Got another call home from school. The quick bits are in

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trouble again. They just cannot sit still and listen.

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Too much sugar. Cloudflare had a major outage yesterday that knocked out big

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services like chatbt and X for thousands of users. The outage came after a change

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in permissions caused too many entries to be added to a file connected to

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Cloudflare's bot management system, causing it to buckle under the load and

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crash out harder than a real housewife. Cloudflare says they fixed the issue and

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stress that there is no sign of a cyber attack. However, this was the third

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major internet outage in a month and people are starting to wonder what can

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be done to prevent these crashes and what backups we have in place for when

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they do happen. Like how I always keep an extra new toothbrush in the house

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just in case the data center powering my normal one goes down.

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AMD is officially launching its next AI powered upscaling tech FSR Redstone on

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December 10th. In a tweet, AMD exec Jack Quinn declared that where darkness ends,

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REDSTONE BEGINS

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before showing off a pretty bland, seemingly Marvel Studios title card

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inspired video. At the moment, not much is known about FSR Redstone, but words

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like neural radiance caching and ray regeneration

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[laughter] have been thrown around and those sound

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hella fancy. I guess AMD is hoping it's fancy enough to justify the reported

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desire to increase GPU prices. According to a post on China's board channels,

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with memory prices increasing, a price hike on AMD's GPUs is imminent.

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Obviously, I'll tell you AMD, Toby Magcguire,

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Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland together on screen. This is not

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>> disappointed. >> AGAIN, [laughter] DISAPPOINTED. GOOGLE JUST LAUNCHED

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Gemini 3, which it's calling its smartest AI model yet, you would hope.

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If Google's benchmarks are to be believed, Gemini 3 might actually be a

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new era of intelligence, considering it's apparently significantly better at

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understanding text, images, audio, and a lot of other stuff than some of its

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competitors. >> Can even understand my wife. The new Gemini is built into both the Gemini app

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and Google search from day one. But being that it's a Gemini, is it ever

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really going to get away from the stereotypes that it's indecisive,

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impulsive, unreliable, and nosy? Russia

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is now cutting mobile internet for travelers re-entering the country for up

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to 24 hours, claiming it stops Ukrainian drones from using SIM cards for

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navigation. The system has caused chaos in border regions where roaming happens

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accidentally. [music] This happens to me all the time. >> Oh man.

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>> Phones that reconnect after being on foreign networks get automatically quarantined until users prove using

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captas or by dialing a call center that they're a human, not a quadcopter.

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>> Oh, it's every day. I keep telling people not a quadcopter.

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>> Riley keeps buzzing in my ear. And Tik Tok is rolling out a new AI generated

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content slider in its managed topic settings so you can choose to see more

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or less slop in your for you feed. Tik Tok is also working on invisible

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watermarking to make AI videos easier to spot, but they're invisible. The

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watermarks that only Tik Tok can read will help them identify AI content even

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if it's edited or re-uploaded. The platform announced that these features

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will be rolling out in the [music] coming weeks. What do you think the person who slides their AI content

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slider to only AI is like? I bet they're

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a Gemini. And I bet you'll be back on Friday for more tech news. I've got to

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go. I wanted to keep working on my funny intro a bit, but now I've got a parent

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teacher conference about the quick bits to go to. They're not even my freaking