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WW 863: Full of Corn - CES 2024 announcements, Incase Designed by Microsoft, passkey support

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It's CES, so let's observe a moment of silence for all the stupid #*$% our colleagues are covering right now! But there is some wheat in the chaff, of course

  • Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn't Meteor Lake was mobile only?
  • PC makers announce a lot of Meteor Lake PCs: Acer, Acer again, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, more, plus the MSI Claw mobile gaming handheld and the first ASUS NUC!
  • Paul's been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what's the AI stuff really like?
  • It's not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs
  • Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share
  • Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?
  • Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter

    • Windows 11

    • Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone
    • Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday
    • Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version
    • Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason

      • Microsoft 365

      • Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase
      • Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client
      • Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date

        • AI

        • OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed
        • Has met with "dozens" of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential
        • Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut
        • Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content
        • Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it's telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI
        • Interesting details about negotiations between the two
        • Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf
        • EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA
        • Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise
        • OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users
        • Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board
        • Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good

          • Xbox

          • Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation
          • Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18
          • Minecraft Legends, RIP
          • Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more
          • Layoffs at Twitch
          • After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce

            • Tips and Picks

            • Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers
            • App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers
            • RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore
            • Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak

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