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

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

Update: 2024-11-27
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Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)


Windows


  • Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters

  • Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice

  • Look at how facile the complaints are now

  • This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues

  • Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features

  • Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

  • HP and Dell earnings

  • The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025

  • Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?

Microsoft 365


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

AI, antitrust, corporate


  • Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI

  • This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS

  • Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI

  • Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results

  • DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US

  • Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs

  • Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested

Xbox


  • Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes

  • Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar

  • Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now

  • Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it

  • Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away

Tips and Picks


  • Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation

  • App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133

  • RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls

  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

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

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

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