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Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom. Windows 11 It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar Windows Insider Program Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.) Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too. Thoughts? Many misunderstand this to negatively impact the Microsoft Store. As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially? Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units AI and Web Browsers, Oh My Browsers go agentic The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model) Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule? Xbox and Games Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2 Tips and Picks Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle' App Pick of the Week: Instapaper Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11 RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit cachefly.com/twit
Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom. Windows 11 It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar Windows Insider Program Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.) Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially? Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units AI and Web Browsers, Oh My Browsers go agentic The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model) Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule? Xbox and Games Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2 Tips and Picks Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle' App Pick of the Week: Instapaper Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11 RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit cachefly.com/twit
Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom. Windows 11 It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar Windows Insider Program Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.) Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially? Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units AI and Web Browsers, Oh My Browsers go agentic The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model) Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule? Xbox and Games Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2 Tips and Picks Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle' App Pick of the Week: Instapaper Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11 RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit cachefly.com/twit
Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom. Windows 11 It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar Windows Insider Program Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.) Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too. Thoughts? Many misunderstand this to negatively impact the Microsoft Store. As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially? Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units AI and Web Browsers, Oh My Browsers go agentic The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model) Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule? Xbox and Games Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2 Tips and Picks Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle' App Pick of the Week: Instapaper Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11 RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit cachefly.com/twit
AP Tests, Hyper-V, Notepad, Google, Nova Scotia, NHI, Bond, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-480
This week, we kick things off with the return of Space Karen's meltdown tour: Elon Musk got flustered in an interview, sputtered out one-word answers, and called the journalist an “NPC,” which is rich coming from the guy whose only real upgrade since PayPal is yelling “freedom” in meme fonts. Meanwhile, 23andMe sold your DNA to Regeneron at a bankruptcy auction, proving once and for all that your spit is more valuable than most tech startups.IN THE NEWS is a parade of corporate idiocy and dystopian fuckery. Coinbase employees got bribed into leaking user data (because clearly we didn't have enough crypto chaos), Klarna keeps flip-flopping between AI and human workers like it's a bad Tinder date, and OpenAI is out here buying Jony Ive's design firm for $6.5 billion because sure, what's another billion when you're trying to build a surveillance device to stalk 100 million users? Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times is publishing AI-generated trash with imaginary authors, Anthropic's new model attempts blackmail, and researchers dumped two billion Discord messages online just for kicks. And yes, Elon's Tesla robotaxis will now only roam the safest parts of Austin, which is code for “we still can't make this thing turn left.”In MEDIA CANDY, we're watching Murderbot, Godfather of Harlem, and Hotel Cocaine because who doesn't love a little synthetic assassin, crime drama, and coke-fueled nostalgia? Notepad.exe now writes for you (and probably files HR complaints too), and Audible is teaming up with publishers to replace narrators with robot voices. Yay, progress. Over in THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, Bittner brings the malware, monsters, and a new theme park review that's somehow less terrifying than the news. Bookworms, don't miss Curepedia and The AI Con — one's about goth gods, the other's about taking down our techno-overlords. And pour one out for George Wendt — Norm from Cheers is now drinking with the angels.Sponsors:DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordShow notes at https://gog.show/698FOLLOW UPElon Musk Gets Rattled by Hard Questions He Can't Answer, Calls Interviewer an "NPC" While Giving One-Word NPC-Like Responses Himself23andMe (and Your Genetic Data) Sold to Regeneron in Bankruptcy AuctionIN THE NEWSExtortionists bribed Coinbase employees to give them customer dataOpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billionSam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users' LivesKlarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AIKlarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive's OpenAI dealKlarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earningsKlarna users are buying now, but not paying laterDOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal WorkersChicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacleWe're Focused on the Wrong A.I. Problem in JournalismAnthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offlineMIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AIResearchers Dump 2 Billion Scraped Discord Messages OnlineMusk says Tesla's self-driving tests will be geofenced to 'the safest' parts of AustinMEDIA CANDYMurderbotGodfather of HarlemHotel CocaineAPPS & DOODADSThe Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous LawsApple confirms iOS 19 will end support for legacy Home app systemAudible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced AudiobooksIn 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”AT THE LIBRARYCurepedia: An A-Z of the Cure by Simon PriceThe AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want By: Emily M. Bender, Alex HannaTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEDave BittnerThe CyberWireHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingFirst photos from inside Universal Studio's new Orlando theme park Epic Universe revealedA Very Honest Review on Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment | Universal's Epic UniverseGadget recommendation - Electric Air Duster with FlashlightCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSGeorge Wendt, Norm From Cheers, Dead at 76See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
In this episode of Double Tap, Steven and Shaun explore Microsoft's latest Surface hardware announcements and what they mean for everyday users — including accessibility and hardware compromises. They share hands-on impressions and debate the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop's specs, design changes, and what users should consider before upgrading. Plus, Sean Randall joins the conversation to deliver an incredibly simple and affordable tip for blind users: using a label printer at home. The trio dives into how this mainstream tech solution can beat specialist tools in cost, usability, and practicality. Wrapping up, listener emails highlight growing frustrations with web accessibility on Chrome for Mac, and Amanda from Australia raises a compelling point that resonates globally.Chapter Markers00:00 Introduction02:30 New Surface Devices Overview17:56 AI Features and Software Updates22:48 Labeling Technology DiscussionQuotes“If you're using magnification software, the Surface Pro is a great machine to look at.” – Steven Scott“The printer was so simple: typed in Notepad, hit print, label in hand.” – Sean Randall“Cost is a factor. Most blind people aren't in work. We need affordable solutions.” – Steven ScottRelevant LinksMicrosoft Surface Devices: https://www.microsoft.com/surfaceNelko PM220 Label Printer: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nelko+pm220Sonos x IKEA Symfonisk: https://www.theverge.comLG smartphone end-of-life: https://www.androidcentral.com Find Double Tap online: YouTube, Double Tap WebsiteJoin the conversation and add your voice to the show either by calling in, sending an email or leaving us a voicemail!Email: feedback@doubletaponair.comPhone: 1-877-803-4567
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more. Windows 11 Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025 A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2 Antitrust Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well AI Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan? Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users Xbox & gaming FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait. New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August Minecraft drops VR/MR support GTA VI delayed until 2026 Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Go passwordless App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com
Guillaume Zika began his career in some of France's most revered Michelin-starred kitchens, honing his craft in Paris and the south of France before moving on to Per Se in New York and Hibiscus in London. Australia became the next chapter, first as head chef at the iconic Cottage Point Inn in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on Sydney's northern edge, then as Executive Chef at Burleigh Pavilion, where he led a team of 60. Today, Guillaume is channelling his focus into Chef Notepad, the software he designed to streamline recipe communication, food costing, food waste and team management, a system built by a chef who understands exactly what kitchens need. Never one to shy away from a challenge, he's also set himself the ambitious personal goal of running 2025 kilometres in 2025. I very happily sat down to chat with Guillaume on a rooftop in Prahran as the sun set over the city.
Unlock the secrets of Windows 11's powerful AI features and see how they can transform your everyday tech interactions. We'll take you on a journey through the latest innovations, highlighting the dynamic role of Copilot, and breaking down the differences between standard systems and the premium Copilot Plus PCs. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
Unlock the secrets of Windows 11's powerful AI features and see how they can transform your everyday tech interactions. We'll take you on a journey through the latest innovations, highlighting the dynamic role of Copilot, and breaking down the differences between standard systems and the premium Copilot Plus PCs. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
Unlock the secrets of Windows 11's powerful AI features and see how they can transform your everyday tech interactions. We'll take you on a journey through the latest innovations, highlighting the dynamic role of Copilot, and breaking down the differences between standard systems and the premium Copilot Plus PCs. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
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Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways Attackers are actively scanning for SMS Gateways. These attacks take advantage of default passwords and other commonly used passwords. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Attacks%20against%20Teltonika%20Networks%20SMS%20Gateways/31888 Commvault Vulnerability CVE-2205-34028 Commvault, about a week ago, published an advisory and a fix for a vulnerability in its backup software. watchTowr now released a detailed writeup and exploit for the vulnerability https://labs.watchtowr.com/fire-in-the-hole-were-breaching-the-vault-commvault-remote-code-execution-cve-2025-34028/ Exploitation Trends Q1 2025 Vulncheck published a summary of exploitation trends, pointing out that about a quarter of vulnerabilities are exploited a day after a patch is made available. https://vulncheck.com/blog/exploitation-trends-q1-2025 inetpub directory issues The inetpub directory introduced by Microsoft in its April patch may lead to a denial of service against applying patches on Windows if an attacker can create a junction for that location pointing to an existing system binary like Notepad. https://doublepulsar.com/microsofts-patch-for-cve-2025-21204-symlink-vulnerability-introduces-another-symlink-vulnerability-9ea085537741
Bruno Capuano is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft where he empowers teams to build AI solutions with Azure using programming languages like C#, Python, and C++. His approach is to solve complex problems with minimal effort, delivering simple and efficient solutions in today's fast-paced AI landscape. Bruno has led innovation in teams at Avanade across Canada and Europe, transforming cutting-edge technologies into practical business solutions. He is passionate about working with teams, helping them grow, achieve high productivity, and foster collaborative, positive environments. As an international speaker, he advocates for making AI accessible to everyone, empowering teams and organizations to harness its transformative potential. Outside of tech, he is a runner, a lifelong learner, and always looking for his next challenge—whether it's mastering new skills or tackling a marathon. Topics of Discussion: [5:08] Bruno explains how his passion for learning and community engagement led him to a role where he could dedicate himself to education and advocacy. [7:17] Why data scientists and new AI tools often favor Python first, and how Bruno and his team work to ensure .NET developers also have immediate access to modern AI capabilities. [10:31] The progression of getting developers into AI. [11:20] Starting with familiar tools like Notepad. [13:39] The “must have's” for developers who want to start writing AI code. [17:20] The benefit of GitHub models. [23:47] Vector Databases & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). [25:17] How vector databases store information using numerical representations and enable semantic search. [31:25] Bruno highlights how AI “skills” or “functions” can call external APIs to fetch real-time data. Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo Bruno LinkedIn Generative AI for Beginners Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
00:00:00 - The guys joke about the audio quality and encourage listeners to use their imagination with the audio-only format. Mike shares stories from the homestead, including his dog chasing off a fox. Paranormal topics teased: haunted TVs, pyramids, and the bizarre superhero "Nun Man." 00:10:00 - Haunted television deep dive: The hosts discuss horror movies (Poltergeist, The Ring) and historical tech-related ghost stories. Early TV tech led to paranoia and ghost sightings, with theories even suggesting TVs might one day tune into the spirit world. 00:20:00 - Stories from the 1950s about ghostly faces burned into screens. Examples of TVs reacting to dog whistles and phone rings due to early remote tech. Some people blamed TVs for violent crimes or demonic possession. A bizarre UK broadcast interruption from 1977 features a message from the "Ashtar Galactic Command." 00:30:00 - The 2000 Crimea alien broadcast incident is discussed: a green humanoid appeared on TVs during the night, speaking an unknown language. A similar case happened in Portugal. The hosts speculate that TVs may induce altered states allowing alien contact. Mike critiques ghost tours that play up theatrics instead of treating the paranormal seriously. 00:40:00 - The haunted New Zealand parliament tour includes tales of mysterious deaths, ghost cats, and singing ghosts in the bathroom. Mike prefers serious presentations over costumed actors. A story is shared about a lawmaker's skull being stolen and recovered decades later. 00:50:00 - The “Nun Man” story unfolds: a Dominican man lived 22 years as a nun after being mistaken for a girl. He fathered children in two different convents before being exposed. His story inspired books and TV shows and has modern-day relevance to gender discussions. 01:00:00 - More on Nun Man: he never met his child and lives today as a tailor. Headlines follow: AI art loses copyright protection, and a Missing 411 Kickstarter campaign for a new documentary is launched. Mike plans to back the project and encourages listeners to support it. 01:10:00 - David Paulides' new Missing 411: National Parks film aims to investigate missing persons cases using new access laws. Mike discusses the strange refusal of national parks to release missing persons lists. Trey Hudson from The Meadow Project may appear on the show for updates. 01:20:00 - A caller celebrates finishing the entire OBDM back catalog. Mike reminisces about old co-hosts and plays sound drops from musician RT. Discussion shifts to an odd viral incident where a man confronts a Tesla driver, highlighting the increasing tribalism around electric vehicles. 01:30:00 - The hosts revisit Gene Simmons' canceled solo tour due to low ticket sales and overpriced packages. They contrast it with more reasonably priced artists and joke about how out of touch Simmons is despite being worth $400 million. 01:40:00 - A 65-foot penis painted on a Berlin school roof is visible on Google Earth. The school's failed attempts to cover it up only made it more ridiculous. The prank is measured in “Ryan Reynolds” units, naturally. 01:50:00 - A wolf-dog hybrid in India sells for over €5.3 million. The dog's beefy look sparks jokes and speculation about its behavior. The buyer makes money by charging people to take selfies with his dogs. 02:00:00 - Microsoft now locks AI features in Notepad and Paint behind a paywall, requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription. The team vents about creeping subscription models, including how WordPad is now discontinued and users are pushed toward cloud-based apps. 02:10:00 - Microsoft urges Windows 10 users to “just buy a new PC” to use Windows 11, triggering frustration. The hosts share stories of how OS upgrades are often disruptive and how both Apple and Microsoft are alienating users with forced changes and bloated features. - Affiliates Links - Jackery: https://shrsl.com/3cxhf Barebones: https://bit.ly/3G38773 - OBDM Merch - https://obdm.creator-spring.com/ Buy Tea! Mike's wife makes some good tea: Naked Gardener Teas: https://www.thenakedgardener.us/store Bags Art Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BagsDraws/ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Skype: ourbigdumbmouth ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► Full Videos at Odysee: https://odysee.com/@obdm:0 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2
Dans l'actu des nouvelles technologies et de l'accessibilité dans ce 400ème épisode : Du côté des applications et du web Android 16 proposera une fonctionnalité majeure d'accessibilité auditive. Application Emvi, un scanner/OCR doté d'IA. Dans Google Play, et dans l'appStore. Il existe un addon nvda pour le jeu Hearthstone. Sur Github. Le pass Navigo Liberté+ débarque sur iPhone (et Android) en juin 2025. Adieu, Google Assistant sur Android, Gemini prend le relais. Apple Music Classical est disponible sur le web. L'application SoundScape community prend désormais en charge le suivi de la tête des lunettes Bose Frames Original. module complémentaire NVDA pour le développement en langage python avec l'éditeur de code Notepad ++. Windows 11 : parlez à Copilot de vive voix avec ce raccourci clavier. Liseuse et accessibilité : une nouvelle police de caractères pour les malvoyants. Mistral OCR, Présentation de la meilleure API de compréhension de documents au monde. Site de Mistral AI PocketPal AI, l'assistant IA 100% local sur Android / iOS. La carte Vitale se dématérialise dans France Identité, mais pas uniquement. François nous narre sa mauvaise expérience SNCF Connect / TER GV. Problème d'incompatibilité de l'appareil photo sur iPhone pour les applications tierces. Le reste de l'actu Nicolas vous propose le podcast : Un Miro dans la ville. Remerciements Cette semaine, nous remercions Camille, Cyprinne, Dominique, Jean-Marc, Nicolas et tony pour leurs infos ou leur dons. Si vous souhaitez vous aussi nous envoyer de l'info ou nous soutenir : Pour nous contactez ou nous envoyez des infos, passez par le formulaire de contact sur le site. Pour faire un don sur PayPal ou en cryptomonaie c'est à l'adresse : oxytude.org/don. Faites vos achats sur Amazon en passant par notre lien affilié oxytude.org/amazon., ça nous aide sans augmenter le prix de vos achats Pour animer cet épisode Alain, Cédric, Fabrice, Greg, Jacques, Philippe, Sof.
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive. Windows March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11 New Canary build today Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix Paint is getting new Cocreator features New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all Microsoft Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe AI/Dev Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook) Zoom AI Companion is going agentic Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2 Xbox Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99 Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA Discord has an SDK now Google Play Games for PC is adding native games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store App pick of the week: Files RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly
In this week's episode, we take a look at the pros and cons of creating a series bible, and how it can potentially help when writing a book. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks of the GHOST NIGHT series at my Payhip store: GHOSTNIGHT25 The coupon code is valid through March 29th, 2025. So if you need a new book to read for spring, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 243 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is March 14th, 2025, and today we are looking at writing series bibles. Before we get into that, let us start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks of the Ghost Night Series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is GHOSTNIGHT25. The coupon code and the links will be available in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through March 29th, 2025. So if you need a new book to read for spring, we've got you covered. Now let's have some updates on my current writing and audiobook projects. I'm pleased to report that Ghost in the Assembly, the fourth book in the Ghost Armor series, is now out. You can get it at Amazon, Barnes Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and my Payhip store. It has been selling well and been received well, so thank you all for that. Now that Ghost in the Assembly is out, my next project is Shield of Battle, the fifth book in The Shield War series, and I am 17,000 words into that and hope to make good progress on it next week. In audiobook news, Cloak Mage: Omnibus Three (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now available, as is Half-Elven Thief: Omnibus One (which is narrated by Leanne Woodward). You can get both of them for the easy price of one credit. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and publishing projects. Usually at this point, we do Question of the Week, but I ran out of time to do Question of the Week this week. 00:01:32: Main Topic of the Week: Writing Adjacent Activities, Part I: Series Bibles So now we'll move right on to our main topic. Today, I'm starting a new series about what I call writing adjacent activities. What do I mean by this? I'm talking about tasks that seem like they're part of the writing process, but in reality, belong in a different category. Now these tasks are important, but they can also be a pitfall if you spend too much time on them, don't use them correctly, or you don't make the best use of your time with them. In this series, we'll focus on a few of these tasks and how they can be beneficial or a hindrance to your writing process, even though they seem like a good use of time and may be advantageous in different scenarios. In this episode, we'll talk about creating series bibles, an activity that some writers love and others loathe or avoid altogether. We'll explain what series bibles are, how they can help you as a writer, and how to write them effectively without losing time on your actual writing. So to begin with, what is a series bible? This term originates in the world of television production (where they're often called show bibles), where having a document that kept track of characters, details mentioned on the show, and important information was crucial when many people were working on the same show. A series bible was essential for continuity and preventing writers from having to rewatch old episodes to find out, for the example of say, the names of Frasier's mother or Nile's first wife. The goal of a series bible for books is to be a reference to refer back to important facts and details about your story. They can prevent errors, reusing names, and save time by not having to check things in earlier books while writing. It is also more important to have a good series bible when a group of people are working together than an individual writer. Examples of things collected in series bibles are character details, locations, plot developments, and information about fictional worlds in the books. They can be incredibly detailed or very simple, depending on what information is tracked within them. Some books obviously will need series bible-ing less than others. For example, a contemporary romance will have less information to keep track of than a science fiction series in a fictional galaxy with its own technology and species because with the contemporary romance, you just need to keep track of the characters and the settings and the settings can be easily reused from the real world, which is quite a bit harder when you're writing a science fiction series with exotic aliens and strange technology. So why should you make a series bible? Continuity is quite challenging, especially as a series progresses or a writer creates interconnected series like my Frostborn, Sevenfold Sword, Dragontiarna, Dragonskull, and Shield War series. Do I remember whether an orc named in one chapter of the third Frostborn book survives so I can use him dozens and books in three series later? I don't off the top of my head. It helps to keep details consistent across books. If, for example, Ridmark carries his staff in his right hand, he shouldn't be switching to his left unless he has a plot reason for doing that. For certain kinds of writers, it can help with planning a series in conjunction with an outline. If you have your characters and location names planned in advance, it's easier than trying to think of them on the spot when writing. Additionally, if you're co-writing a series with one or more other people, this ensures that all the information stays consistent. For most cases, I think writing with another person or a group of people is probably the best reason to create a series bible. A series bible can also, if you're writing on your own, help you find patterns in your own writing. For example, if you're consistently not describing characters' appearances until the fifth or sixth chapter in each book, that may be something you want to change in future books. Readers tend to like physical descriptions fairly early in the book because it helps them imagine the characters and they might be annoyed if a physical detail that appears late in the book doesn't match what they actually imagined. So how do you go about making a series bible (if you've decided that you need one)? It doesn't require special software, just a basic word processor file. You can just type the entire thing up in Word or even in Notepad if you want. Some people may use some programs like Scrivener or Hiveword, but for most people, that could be overkill. Some writers make series binders in a physical binder because they prefer to flip back and forth that way instead of using the word processor's search feature. For myself, I would most definitely prefer using the word processor search feature. Decide before you start the project what categories would be most helpful to you. Remember the more categories you have in the series bible, the longer it will take to create and the more time it will take to maintain, especially as a series goes on. Some potential categories for your series bible include characters, locations, languages, magic systems, and a basic plot summary for each book in the series. From there, it's as simple as filling in categories with the information. Some people make different documents or pages for each category, while others like all the information to be in one place for easier searching. Some people create the series bibles while outlining. Some people create them while writing. Others do it after the book is complete. It'll be up to you to decide which one works best for your workflow, but the latter is often seen as the easiest because then you don't have to make changes as you edit the books. So what are the potential pitfalls or time wasting aspects of a series bible? Much like many other writing adjacent tasks, creating a detailed series bible can turn into something that feels like writing progress, but is actually hindering you from meeting your word count goals or actually getting on with finishing the story. It seems like the people who create series bibles before starting their draft tend to be the writers who have the most trouble actually finishing their drafts. If you're creating a series bible before creating your first draft, you may be spending a lot of time creating superfluous details that won't actually be needed for the book or creating such a volume of detail that writing the draft begins to feel daunting. You may not need one and might be creating a series bible unnecessarily. For one thing, they're intended for series, so creating one for a standalone book is most likely overkill. If it's a short series, without collaborators, in a contemporary realistic fiction setting, it may not be necessary or maybe only a brief character sheet would be sufficient. Just because some writers say that series bibles are helpful doesn't mean that's a requirement or that your book won't be as good without one. It's also a good idea to set a goal in advance of what categories you want and how much detail you need. That will help you figure out if you're spending more time on it than is necessary. Creating templates may also help, especially ones that allow for short responses instead of entire sentences or paragraphs. A consistent format may make the information easier to find and/or skim later. This would be something like a Dungeons and Dragons character sheet where you would just have a template where you could list the most pertinent details about the character as an aid to memory, like their age, ethnicity, eye color, hair color, height, brief physical descriptions, and things like that, short details that'd be a useful aid to spurring memory. And finally, as with so many things in life, it's important to be honest with yourself. Will you actually take the time to maintain this series bible across multiple books, or is the file going to sit forever unfinished in a corner of your hard drive? For many people, series bibles are often like the writing equivalent of a craft project that has started with good intentions but is ultimately left unfinished in a box somewhere. Since we cited TV series bibles as an example for this, I thought we would quote an example from the series bible for the TV show Lost. Note that the main purpose of this series bible was to get the TV show on air and to get advertisers for it, so the language here is a combination of characters' facts and marketing speak to try and get people interested in the characters. Most series bibles for books use more of a factual approach, but it's still of interest as an example. Here's the entry for the character of Boone: “Boone grew up in a world of wealth and privilege provided by a vast commercial empire run by his mother, "The Martha Stewart of the Wedding Industry." Fatherless from a very young age, Boone quickly assumed the role of family patriarch. In one fell swoop, he became the heir apparent and self-appointed guardian of his sister. But Boone has a dark secret - one even Shannon doesn't know. Diagnosed with schizophrenia during adolescence, he has since managed his illness with ongoing therapy and a cocktail of anti-psychotic medications - medications he stopped taking roughly a month before the crash. Ongoing survival crises find Boone at odds with his slipping sanity, leading to an inevitable breaking point which will not only put him at odds with the others, but make him an outright danger.” So you can probably tell from this paragraph that this was written partly to help the writers and partly to help pitch the show. But you can see how this kind of thing could be useful for remembering key details about a character when you're writing the third book in your series and need to look back and refresh your memory about the character's details. You wouldn't need something so detailed or dramatically written, but just enough to capture the key character details so you could refresh your memory. So what do I do myself in terms of series bibles? Well, the answer is mostly not that much (chuckles). My method of continuity checking is that Windows Explorer, the file manager on Windows, has a feature that allows you to search inside documents. So if I need to refresh my memory about something in a series, I go to the series folder that holds all those Word documents, search for the term I'm looking for, and read through the results until I find it. It's not very efficient. I have started making series bibles recently and by saying that I have started, I mean I have hired someone to do it for me. Why am I making them now? Like I said, making it easier to keep track of continuity because Ghosts in the Assembly was my 160th book, which is a lot to keep track of, and that's a lot of Control + F searching in Windows Explorer to find things. So I was thinking it was time to get better organized and have this information to be more accessible and easy to read. What do I include in mine? I'm only doing them for books I have finished and only about eight or nine pages for each book. The categories are timeline events, locations, creatures, magic and spells, and a brief list of key events. Will I ever publish these series bibles? Probably not, unless I can find a good source of artwork because when people think of published series bibles, they think of these big hardcover books you get Barnes and Noble called The World of Wheel of Time or The World of Fire and Ice and then there's a lot of beautiful illustrations in them. I might try something simpler, where it's just the text. So I suppose the real answer is we will have to see. So that is my thoughts on series bibles. So that is it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you listen to all the backups episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.
This week, Paul explains what he knows about AI credits and where they might be relevant to you in Windows 11. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
-Now I have become death, The destroyer of worlds: https://www.rdworldonline.com/protoclone-v1-1000-artificial-muscles-power-this-sweating-robots-human-like-moves/ -Aaaaaaaccccckkkk I WANT THIS: Sigma's BF is a minimalist full-frame camera with no memory card slot -Pirating isn't stealing. Seeding is: Meta Claims Torrenting Pirated Books Isn't Illegal Without Proof of Seeding -Microsoft's first Quantum Computing chip announced: Microsoft Reveals Its First Quantum Computing Chip, the Majorana 1 -Apple is developing their own modems now: Apple's first in-house iPhone modem is the C1 -Did Microsoft just…push us to consumer quantum computing? Majorana 1 Youtube video will start the hype train for sure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHmygPQukQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZXl33t8So&t=1252s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkvrQUSJC0 https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/ https://www.technowize.com/microsoft-majorana-1-chip-quantum-computing-breakthrough/#:~:text=Majorana%20Particles%E2%80%94Turning%20a%20Concept%20Into%20Reality&text=These%20are%20hypothetical%20particles%20or,way%20that%20can%20be%20used. -Capitalism strikes our dearest pals Notepad and MS Paint…it's not so bad though https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html -Robots! https://apnews.com/article/mlb-robot-umpires-abs-9034454b5a795262bf97446ff38d0361 https://www.robotics247.com/article/robot_umpire_automated_ball_strike_abs_system_debuts_at_mlb_spring_training -AI Computer Speak https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-chatbots-speak-unintelligible-language/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7300116692964126721/
From autocorrect to AI, Microsoft has updated the Notepad app to bring it into the modern age. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
In Las Vegas at the Pepcom event for CES, Vicky Yang, Brand Marketing Director for MOFT, showed us their latest products that include an iPhone wallet and stand with Find My that stays charged for 4 - 6 months, a new iPad folio that provides seven different folding configurations, and a MagSafe accessory that incorporates a notebook for your analog input. Show Notes: Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
In Episode 20 of Season 5, we rejoice in the Vitor Pereira era beginning with a clean sheet and a convincing win, which seemed to rejuvenate some our Portuguese players and gave berth to a rallying cry from Wolves supporters that we can all get behind... "I Don't Care About Jeff Shi..." --- Follow the show on X @wlwpod, on YouTube @WholeLottaWolves and on Facebook. E-mail us at hello@wholelottawolves.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wlwpod/support
Guillaume Zika, chef exécutif du Burleigh Pavilion Group, a puisé dans son expérience en cuisine pour développer un outil essentiel pour les restaurants, Chef Notepad. Il nous parle de ce programme, et de son parcours.
In this episode of Principle of Hospitality, Renee Buckingham chats with Guillaume Zika, Executive Chef at Burleigh Pavilion, about his remarkable 20-year culinary journey. Trained in France, Guillaume honed his craft in some of the world's most renowned Michelin-starred kitchens across Paris, London, and New York, including Le Bernardin and Per Se. He shares candid insights into the high-pressure world of Michelin dining, the challenges of building a career in Paris, and the rewarding experiences that brought him to Australia's Cottage Point Inn and eventually Burleigh Pavilion. Guillaume also introduces Chef Notepad, a practical tool he developed to help chefs streamline recipe and cost management. Through his story, Guillaume highlights the values of passion, consistency, and staying true to one's purpose in the ever-demanding hospitality industry.Please find our guest information here:Website: https://chefnotepad.com.au/https://burleighpavilion.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guillaume_zika/https://www.instagram.com/chef_notepad/Please find us here at POH:Website: https://principleofhospitality.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/principle_of_hospitality/
Lords: * John * Erica Topics: * Golden owl pre-post-mortem * https://goldenowlhunt.com/ * Twin update: one year later * Notepad has support for alternative line endings now * Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?) * https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/goodnight-moon-nursery-rhyme/ Microtopics: * The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord. * What goes on the lords-only channel. * The first rule of being a lord. * It's the end of the show somewhere in the world. * Frog Fractions Royalty. * Topic Lords Con East. * Choosing pairs of lords. * What lords have been on the show least recently. * Mystery with a B. * Responsibility to the lords. * ARG goings-on. * Maze of Games. * Rubber hose ARG solving * Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck. * The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France. * The History of the Owl Stuff. * Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl. * The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved. * It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. * Going and burying a duck * Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back. * Looking through the Heart of France. * Another cursed treasure hunt in the can. * Ancient alternatives to zip files. * Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly. * Telling twins apart using phrenology. * Twin identification strategies. * Let me see your flecks! * Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons. * Platypodes. * Jock twin/nerd twin. * Having children as a way to practice solving problems together. * Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.) * Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night. * Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol. * How to teach babies to sleep. * Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it. * A good selection of kid-friendly music. * A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes. * How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed. * Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV. * Just show me the byte order marker! * Adding tabs to Notepad. * Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar. * What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect. * Loading CSV files into R. * Accidentally updating Excel. * The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems. * Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow. * Why JWZ is no longer rich. * Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line. * Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces. * How Unity handles upgrades and versioning. * The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon. * Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon. * When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died. * The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things. * The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre. * Goodnight Dune. * Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune. * Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died." * Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics. * Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques. * Floating in the No-Room.
Deprecated features are features that meet two criteria: Microsoft is no longer updating the feature, and that feature is earmarked for removal in a future version of Windows. This week, Paul runs down some of the deprecated apps in Windows 11 since the 24H2 patch. Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
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On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com
In this episode of Creative Current Events, Abby and Margo tackle the ups and downs of navigating social media as a creator. Margo opens up about her recent Instagram suspension and the ripple effect it's had on her business, leading to a bigger conversation about algorithm frustrations, lack of transparency, and how social media companies fall short in supporting creators. They also discuss the devastating impact of natural disasters on our global community, focusing on how Florida-based artists are recovering from Hurricane Helene and Milton and how listeners can help from afar. Abby and Margo then share practical tips for diversifying communication outside of social media, dig into recent tech updates from Apple and Microsoft, and explore how creativity can thrive in even the most challenging conditions—like making art in the dark. Mentioned in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dewintonpaperco https://tantaustudio.com/windowsillchat219/ https://www.annieatkins.com/ https://www.melissaweisspottery.com/ https://www.sunlighttax.com/ Microsoft's Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch Use Zoom's AI Companion to Take Notes and Summarize Meetings Why Make Art in the Dark? Connect with Abby: https://www.abbyjcampbell.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ajcampkc/ https://www.pinterest.com/ajcampbell/ Connect with Margo: www.windowsillchats.com www.instagram.com/windowsillchats www.patreon.com/inthewindowsill
Using keyboard shortcuts is a key way to be more efficient while using Windows, and this is true on a number of levels, some of which aren't immediately obvious. With Windows 11, most of the core keyboard shortcuts you know and love transition over, but there are some changes, and some new shortcuts too. Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
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Brittany Kriegstein, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, and Tom Warren, senior editor and author of "Notepad" for The Verge, talk about the effects of the massive tech outage, including critical infrastructure, apps, travel and more -- as callers share issues they're finding with work, travel, and making purchases.
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