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
\\n- Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn\'t Meteor Lake was mobile only?
\\n- 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!
\\n- Paul\'s been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what\'s the AI stuff really like?
\\n- It\'s not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs
\\n- Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share
\\n- Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?
\\n- Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter
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Windows 11
\\n- Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone
\\n- Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday
\\n- Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version
\\n- Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason
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Microsoft 365
\\n- Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase
\\n- Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client
\\n- Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date
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AI
\\n- OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed
\\n- Has met with "dozens" of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential
\\n- Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut
\\n- Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content
\\n- Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it\'s telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI
\\n- Interesting details about negotiations between the two
\\n- Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf
\\n- EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA
\\n- Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI\'s ChatGPT Enterprise
\\n- OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users
\\n- Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board
\\n- Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good
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Xbox
\\n- Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation
\\n- Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18
\\n- Minecraft Legends, RIP
\\n- Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more
\\n- Layoffs at Twitch
\\n- After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce
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Tips and Picks
\\n- Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers
\\n- App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers
\\n- RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore
\\n- Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak
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