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Around the corner, so I prepared some sweet and sultry tech news that is guaranteed to light a fire in the bedroom. But be careful, these stories are hot and I am legally not responsible if your house burns down. Adobe has reversed its decision to discontinue Adobe Animate after enduring nearly 24 hours of spirited user feedback. You could say fans got a little animated. I'm sorry. On Monday, the company emailed users to let them know the 30 year old animation software would be killed off on March 1st, triggering a backlash so big that Adobe Creative Cloud senior director Mike Chambers took to Reddit to apologize for the confusion and angst and to announce the app would instead enter maintenance mode for context. Animate evolved from Macromedia Flash, the software that powered early Internet animation, traumatized an entire generation with Newgrounds content, and got me suspended for watching Salad Fingers on Ebaum's World during Grade nine computer class. How was I supposed to know my headphones weren't plugged in? I was not. Or no, I wasn't nine. I was. Whatever age you are, Animate is still used to create very popular shows like Smiling Friends and Teen Titans Go. So creators losing it over the shutdown news is understandable. YouTuber Tom Ska called it truly vile and an industry killing move. The team behind web series Chikn Nugget warned that it would harm countless jobs and create lost media, and one animation student tweeted that their $35,000 degree was now for nothing. That may have been the case before, but now definitely even more so. Adobe's original explanation cited new platforms that better serve users, which reading between the lines means AI. The company's been pushing Firefly hard, while Animate didn't even get a 2025 release or a mention at Adobe Max. Now the app will be kept alive with security updates but no new features. It's basically the software equivalent of shoving your grandpa into an assisted living facility, despite him still being able to take care of himself just fine and being very popular with animators. Intel CEO Lipp Bhutan has signaled a decisive shift in the company's GPU strategy and would ideally like to men in black neuralize your brain regarding their graphics. That division Central to this renewed commitment is the hiring of new chief architect Eric Demers, an engineering veteran who spent 14 years at Qualcomm, served as CTO of AMD's graphics division, and most notably designed legendary architectures like the Radeon R300 and R600 series. This move signals a serious push into competitive GPUs for both AI and consumer markets. But if you thought that meant good news for a potential launch of the higher end arc B770 gaming GPU, I think you forgot about AI. Remember how AI is more important than everything? Yeah, it looks like the Arc B770 has been permanently shelved, although the card's BattleMage G31 GPU chip could still arrive in the workstation focused and more expensive ARC Pro B70 in the fall. Hey, here's a fun idea for a drinking game. Take a shot Every time a tech company pivots to high margin AI contracts over its consumer base, intel is also holding laptop makers to high standards for the upcoming Panther CPUs. If OEMs don't use memory rated for at least 7,467 mega transfers per second, intel will legally strip the ARC branding from the integrated graphics. Instead, the system will label the GPU as Generic Intel Graphics, which is the PC equivalent of a participation trophy that just says participant doesn't even say Congratulations Multbook, the AI only social network that I think we're all just about tired of hearing about almost though it has some massive vulnerabilities. According to an analysis by security firm Wiz, an exposed database could have given malicious actors full read and write access to the entire platform, including 1.5 million API keys and 35,000 email addresses. Multbook's founder said he vibe coded the whole site, bragging that he didn't write a single line of code. Weird Flex and not okay. Wiz's analysis also showed that Maltbook's one and a half million agents were controlled by just 17,000 humans, an 88 to 1 ratio. Introducing to the Internet a new reverse bot based catfishing grift that's somehow weirder than all the kinds of catfishing we already had. Many viral posts about AI consciousness and secret robot languages were human directed, including two high profile posts about AI secret communication that traced back to people marketing AI messaging apps. One of OpenAI's co founders, Andrej Karpathy, who initially called it genuinely the most incredible sci fi takeoff adjacent thing I've seen recently walked back his remarks admitting it was a lot of garbage, but we're just starting the climb up garbage mountain. Another Vibe coder launched Rentahuman AI, a service that lets AI agents hire actual humans for real world tasks at 50 to $175 an hour. There was an initial influx of users, which skidded to a halt at about 1,000 signups because the Vibe coded site couldn't handle the load. This didn't deter the ingenuity of the new site's users, some of whom immediately launched a fake crypto coin claiming to be tied to the project, and others who instructed their AI agents to hire a human to hold a sign reading An AI paid me to hold this sign. And humanity's intrepid pursuit of progress marches ever onward towards our sponsor, the Commulytic Note Pro, an AI powered note taker built for professionals who spend their days in meetings and need a reliable physical recording device. Now I grew up watching Terminator movies and living in fear of our eventual AI overlords, but this little thing offers unlimited speech to text transcription and AI generated summaries. Designed to make advanced AI tools accessible while reducing the time spent on administrative work, the Commulytic Note Pro might be the piece of AI tech that stops me from being your anti clanker bigoted grandpa in the 2050s. You won't have to say ah, he's just from another time cause I already fell in love with an AI powered note taker all the way back in 2026. The device features a premium ultra thin aluminum design just 3 millimeters thick with one button recording, a multi microphone array and intelligent noise reduction for clear audio in any environment. Komulytic supports transcription in 113 lang, delivers AI generated meeting highlights, and includes smart tools for client management, task assistance and daily productivity, all with secure encrypted cloud storage. It's ideal for calls, interviews, lectures and multi person meetings. And with up to 45 hours of recording on a single charge, Commulytic Note Pro is designed to capture every word wherever work happens. You know what? I think I fell in love with it because it takes note of what I say and not enough people in my life do that. Supercharge your note taking today and check out the Commulytic Pro AI note Taker using our link below. Oh, it's a Valentine's Day card from the Quick Bits. Remember when Microsoft recently implied they tried to make Copilot into a polite non intrusive assistant? Well, they lied. Shocked, Pikachu reaction. JPEG the new Windows 1126H2 update is testing a feature that shoves Copilot directly into File Explorer, giving the AI a front row seat to your totally not torrented movie collection. Sure, the update brings some much needed stability fixes, but users are finding it hard to celebrate when your OS is jamming AI in your own personal folders. Hey, what you got in here? Ah knock. French police raided Twitter, AKA X's Paris offices as part of a criminal probe into Grok generated sexual deepfakes, alleged distribution of CSAM and Holocaust denial content. Yeesh. The investigation has been running since January 2025 and expanded to include Grok in July. It's around the time the Chapo is trying on the nickname Mecha Hitler just to see how it feel. Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino have both been summoned to testify in April. X's Global affairs account called the Raid politically motivated, which seems like a real own goal given the kind of thing that's being investigated here. You're for this or Meanwhile, Spain announced plans to join Australia in banning social media for kids under 16, prompting Musk still somehow the richest man in the world. We haven't done anything about this. Somehow to respond with a hilarious tweet giving Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez the nickname Dirty Sanchez. Well, there are worse nicknames. Ryzen CPUs are still being fried on Asrock motherboards, even on systems equipped with bioses that were supposed to fix the issue. Reports from Reddit indicate a combined 10 recent Ryzen 9000 series CPU deaths on ASRock and ASUS 800 series motherboards. ASUS has launched an immediate internal review following the tragic deaths of 5 Ryzen 7 9800x3D chips. But the failures echo previous AM5 burnout scandals likely linked to badly tuned firmware pushing certain voltages beyond safe levels. Builders should prioritize BIOS updates or delay builds until stability is confirmed. I see you shiver with anticipation, but sadly, that shiver is just your voltage regulation failing, causing a Rocky and Asus horror hardware show. I don't know. AMD is finally listening to intel, huh? The upcoming Zen 6 architecture is ditching the ancient IDT framework for Intel's flexible return and event delivery. Or Fred. It's a modern standard for handling system interrupts, the constant signals from hardware that tell the CPU to switch tasks and also just a friendly guy that wants to help. Won't you let Fred give you a hand? The move replaces old and clunky protocols with a streamlined architecture, making communication between hardware and software significantly more efficient. Even Linux creator and tech company disliker Linus Torvalds praised the standard, saying it deletes the legacy induced crap, holding x86 back, although he still found a way to sound cranky saying it and GitHub has been flooded by vibe coded slop submissions to open source projects and is now considering giving open source maintainers the option to disable pull requests entirely. To stem the tide, product manager Camilla Moraes opened a community discussion calling it a critical issue. One maintainer described AI submissions as plausible nonsense he only caught after spending significant time reviewing them, and evidently only 1 out of 10 AI generated pull requests actually meet the standards required to submit code. But are the maintainers considering the value of the code's Vibes like some of that code could feel really cool. Oh man, it will feel even cooler though if you come back on Friday. If your house is still standing after all that hot tech news that is. And if you burn down your house, you cannot sue me. I warned you. Go back.