WW 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred - Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)
Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)
Windows
- Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters
- Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice
- Look at how facile the complaints are now
- This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues
- Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features
- Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
- HP and Dell earnings
- The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025
- Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?
Microsoft 365
- Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week
AI, antitrust, corporate
- Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI
- This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS
- Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI
- Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results
- DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US
- Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs
- Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested
Xbox
- Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes
- Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar
- Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now
- Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it
- Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation
- App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133
- RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique
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