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

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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