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WW 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred - Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)

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Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)

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  • Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters
  • Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice
  • Look at how facile the complaints are now
  • This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues
  • Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features
  • Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
  • HP and Dell earnings
  • The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025
  • Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?

    • Microsoft 365

    • Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week

      • AI, antitrust, corporate

      • Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI
      • This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS
      • Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI
      • Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results
      • DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US
      • Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs
      • Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested

        • Xbox

        • Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes
        • Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar
        • Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now
        • Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it
        • Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away

          • Tips and Picks

          • Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation
          • App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133
          • RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

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