Windows Weekly 863: Full of Corn

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 8:20 p.m.

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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

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  • Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn\'t Meteor Lake was mobile only?
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  • 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!
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  • Paul\'s been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what\'s the AI stuff really like?
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  • It\'s not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs
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  • Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share
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  • Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?
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  • Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter
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Windows 11

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  • Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone
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  • Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday
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  • Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version
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  • Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason
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Microsoft 365

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

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

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

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