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WW 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility - LinkedIn AI training, Three Mile Island, Apollo's offer

2024/9/25
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Windows 11

  • 24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos

  • Microsoft issues last-second updates to 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 in the Release Preview on Monday. Paul predicted these would turn into our Week D updates later in the week and that we'd get nothing on Tuesday

  • Dev and Beta channels got some interesting updates recently as well

  • The Windows App is now available on Windows, Mac, and iOS

  • HP announces two new flagship AI PCs, one AMD and one Intel. Plus a lower-cost 8-core Snapdragon model. This is officially a trend.

  • A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirmed it shipped the same update to Surface Pro 11. This has had a major negative effect on the device's instant-on capabilities

Microsoft 365, cloud, AI

  • Microsoft is reviving Three Mile Island and other headlines I never thought I'd write

  • Google formally complains about alleged Microsoft antitrust abuses in the EU

  • LinkedIn is training AI with your data. You can turn it off because Microsoft loves opt-out

  • Microsoft issues a SFI progress report and they are doing GREAT, thank you very much

  • Gemini comes to Workspace

  • Apple Intelligence will hoover 4GB of drive space on iPhones to start, more later as more features are added

More!

  • Qualcomm makes another offer to acquire Intel

  • Investment firm offers Intel a $5 billion lifeline

  • Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well

  • Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings

  • Paul has finished updating .NETpad for Windows 11 theming support in .NET 9, will put code up in GitHub after .NET ships in stable

Xbox

  • A new tell-all about Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox arrives October 8

  • Game Pass features are coming to Xbox mobile app where they belong

  • Also, Game Bar Compact mode as part of September Xbox Update

  • New Indie Selects titles

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is available for preorder and it will look a lot better and take up a lot less disk space

  • Xbox Ambassador's Program is dead, Jim

  • Xbox spends $1 billion per year to acquire Game Pass titles

  • Xbox figured out how to reduce its carbon emissions. You know, besides selling fewer consoles

  • Sony announces 30th anniversary PS5 collection

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: Stop paying so much for everything

  • App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates

  • RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas

  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch

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