• Leo's AI Toys
• DeepSeek
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
• Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
• 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
• The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
• Paris' new TV
• Scoldy Mastodon
• Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
• Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
• Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
• Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
• New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
• Technological puritanism
• All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
• By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
• The mayor of Merrymac

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Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell go over the latest batch of preview updates for January 2025, including KB5050094! The big story of the week revolves around DeepSeek and its noticeable effects on the modern AI world. Sinofsky even wrote a big piece on the latest AI assistant!

Windows 11

• Preview updates for Windows 11, 10 arrive ahead of February Patch Tuesday
• Windows 11 - Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects in the system tray, many File Explorer fixes, more
• Windows 10 - New Outlook replaces Mail, Calendar, People
• New Dev and Beta channel builds - Overdue battery icon updates in Dev, Snap Layout experiments in Beta
• New Canary build today with new File Explorer home view tab
• Microsoft to remove Dev Home from Windows - This never made sense, so that's fine, but its most important features will live on
• Microsoft Edge for Windows now has a Scareware blocker in preview

AI

• DeepSeek explodes out of the gate, sends Big Tech/AI stock reeling and opening up questions about how much money these companies are spending on AI
• Nadella, Altman, Nvidia all react to this change in interesting ways
• Steve Sinofsky - This was inevitable, disruption always comes from outside
• Ahead of this blockbuster development, a look at how the Microsoft/OpenAI relationship is changing - and now we need another look
• OpenAI announces Operator agent for ChatGPT in preview
• Google is bringing new Gemini features to Android and Pixel
• Google is also bringing NotebookLM to almost every Workspace tier, including the cheap one I (Paul) use, NotebookLM Plus to WS Standard and better

Microsoft

• Microsoft preps smaller Surface Pro and Laptop models with Snapdragon chips for some reason
• Microsoft is closing its UK-based "experience center"

Xbox

• Thanks to Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is the biggest game publisher in the world
• Phil Spencer: Xbox Series S a "real advantage" for coming portable gaming product
• Phil Spencer says hardware still "critical" to Xbox. More like "critical condition," am I right?
• No surprises at Xbox Developer_Direct, but a solid collection of games, including the new DOOM

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: It's time to start watching Dave's Garage
• App pick of the week: PowerToys, now with Zoomit
• RunAs Radio this week: Querying for Breaches with Mark Morowcyznski
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Blair Athol 12 Floral & Fauna

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• eM Client CAN be purchased outright.
• An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.
• An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.
• DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.
• Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.
• SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.
• Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.
• A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups

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What's going on with Siri? iOS 18.3 update is out now, along with a fix to a zero-day flaw. You can buy iPhones on eBay with TikTok installed on them as TikTok is still not available for download on the App Store. And on January 27th, 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at an Apple event.

• Siri is super dumb and getting dumber.
• iOS 18.3 is now available for everyone.
• Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades.
• Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices.
• iPhone's with TikTok installed.
• Update now: iOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3 include 20+ security updates.
• Apple Music pays artists more than 2x Spotify's average rates, per report.
• Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership.
• iPhone SE 4 appears in new photos and video, notch and all.
• Apple releases tvOS 18.3, HomePod 18.3, and visionOS 2.3 for all users.
• Apple earnings are coming.
• Office printer mishap sparks landmark gender pay discrimination lawsuit at Apple.
• Apple buys Boylston Street building for $88 million.
• Apple's next immersive Vision Pro film involves bull riding and arrives soon.
• Apple introduces the 2025 Black Unity Collection.
• Apple Watch bands are safe to wear, says Apple, after lawsuit filed.
• Oscar nominations completely snub Apple TV+.
• Severance - Tim C.
• Apple announced the iPad 15 years ago today.

Picks of the Week:

• Mikah's Pick: LARQ Bottle PureVis 2
• Alex's Pick: Power Prompter
• Andy's Picks: Retrobatch 2

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• The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
• Satya Nadella says he's 'good for $80 billion' after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn't have the cash
• How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
• Tesla brand value drops $15B in 2024
• Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
• Crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are collectibles, not securities
• Trump's Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support
• Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AI | TechCrunch
• Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with 'no successor' planned
• Startups are built on dreams. This one is just more literal about it.
• When S.F. fought 'Pac-Man'
• Interview with Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz
• Bill Gates: Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me

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• "Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
• Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
• What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
• Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
• SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub
• The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers
• Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
• Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
• Nokia's reaction to the iPhone
• The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy
• Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
• Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show
• The Whole World is Whining
• Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year
• Genrevision podcast

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Google Pixel 5, Amazon One, AppleTV+

• Google's Launch Night in was a snooze
• Amazon Sidewalk will join your neighborhood together - or invade your privacy
• Amazon wants your palm print. Will you give it to them?
• James Bond delayed to 2021: Movie theaters are dying
• Subway sandwiches are not made with bread in Ireland, and their chicken is less than 50% chicken, but Popeye's is the best
• Apple TV+ is about to lose a whole lot of subscribers - what should we watch?
• How soap operas are filming during the pandemic
• Prime day is October 13th - will you shop?
• Libraries are being squeezed by publishers over ebooks and audiobooks
• Google TV is good, but Google seems to have lost interest like they lose interest in everything
• MIxer screws Ninja over; Ninja makes bank
• Sonos sues Google for multi-room audio patents
• Facebook merges Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook logins
• US judge saves TikTok; Fleetwood Mac rejoices
• The Social Dilemma is Reefer Madness for 2020
• If you pay ransomware, the Treasury Department will come after you
• H1-B visas cut off; tech giants cry out

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