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month the things life throws at you sometimes Triumphs betrayals Literal Tons of tech news it can be a lot, but don't worry cause I'm here to add more of that last one to the pile. You're strong. You can take it Microsoft has apparently had enough of being called Microslop and has officially banned the word from the official Copilot Discord server. Naturally, this went as well as you could probably expect. After the filter went live, users responded with the maturity of, well, Discord users and flooded the chat with creative variants of the Microsoft name like Micro Slop with a zero or Sloppy Soft, which was my nickname in college. A day later. The constant turmoil eventually led to the server's moderators disabling message history and restricting posting altogether. What was Microsoft's strategy here? Fix Copilot's reputation by telling their most online users exactly which words they aren't allowed to say. The Internet loves that. Maybe CEO Satya Nadella was just grumpy that apparently no one had listened to his blog post from December urging us to move past the idea of slop versus Sophistication. He had a point. Ten years from now, you're gonna feel pretty foolish when you're slurping happily from the trough with all the other piggies. So stop calling it Slop. Investors can hear you. The Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona featuring a surprise guest, the new iPhone 17e, just announced by Apple. They almost never participate in big tech conferences. The entire court is speculating that it's simply a ruse to impress the Duke's fair cousin Muriel. Apple has finally fixed the largest complaint budget buyers had with the 16e by equipping the 17e with MagSafe. They also doubled the base storage to 256 gigabytes while maintaining the 599 price point. They're so good to us. Apple has also bumped the chip in the iPad air from an M3 to an M4 while keeping its $600 MSRP, 128 gigabytes of base storage and 12 gigabytes of RAM, which is so exciting you'll probably want to not pre order it on March 4th because it hit shelves on March 11th. Don't do it. Not even once. Don't even line up. Apple's sudden appearance had the Android phones a little bit flustered, but Xiaomi still managed to show off The Leica lights phone 17 Ultra, blurring the line between phone and DSLR camera, but by putting a big circle on the back. My brain is confused. What is it? Motorola showed off the Razer Fold, its first book style, foldable and intriguingly, an enterprise focused partnership with the grapheneos Foundation. You know, the privacy focused Android fork you can already install yourself, but now it will come in a suit, maybe made of a single layer of carbon atoms. You never know with these guys, but phones gotta connect somehow. So it's a good thing that Qualcomm announced their next gen modem, which which supports native 5G over satellite. And I'm just happy this wasn't a thing back in the year 2000, where Castaway, starring Tom Hanks would have been a terrible film. It's over immediately. But if you thought MWC was just for, you know, mobiles, you clearly underestimated just how much R and D money these companies leave completely unsupervised. Xiaomi unveiled the Vision GT Electric supercar concept, which is gonna be in the Grand Turismo racing game. You guys, I can't wait. Meanwhile, Lenovo brought enough concepts to Barcelona to fill a whole separate convention center. First, they showed off a concept for the Legion Go Fold, a foldable Windows gaming handheld, because the one thing missing from your portable Steam library is a mechanical hinge, an inevitable repair bill. Lenovo also showed off a ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept, the result of a Framework laptop and an Asus zenbook duo having a baby in the worst way you can imagine. It's essentially a system of magnetic modular screens, keyboards, accessories and ports. So you can build the laptop you want, then swap out anything on the fly, which is genuinely awesome. I make jokes, it's awesome. It's such a great concept that I can't wait to never be able to buy it. But it wouldn't be a tech event without at least one robot. Lenovo explored the concept for a desktop AI workmate that is literally a robot arm, which, with puppy dog eyes, look at his little face. He wants to help you optimize your spreadsheets and if that wasn't enough robotics for you, Honor unveiled its robot phone, a futuristic device sporting a little motorized robotic gimbal arm right on the back. Not only does this 200 megapixel mechanical limb offer cinematic video stabilization and autonomous subject tracking, but it physically nods, shakes his head and dances to music. Which it did alongside Honor's actual robot backed by a full dance crew. It's hard to be mad at the inevitable robot uprising when it starts with a perfectly choreographed underground Berlin style dance session. Still, I bet it couldn't go toe to toe with our sponsors. War Thunder is the most comprehensive vehicle combat game ever made free on PC, consoles and mobile. Take command of over 2,500 tanks, planes, helicopters and ships across 10 major nations. From biplanes and armored cars of the 1920s all the way to the fighter jets and and main battle tanks of today. The vehicles look and sound like the real thing. They're all like boom. But better than that. Also, War Thunder has one of the most sophisticated damage models in gaming. There are no simple boxes with hit points here. Every vehicle is modeled down to its individual components, all susceptible to real damage. Armor shells and missiles behave like their real world counterparts. And if something gets destroyed, X ray view show you exactly what happened. Like when a shell hits a tank, you can go kabloom boosh all the way through. It's so frickin sick. With three game modes, from arcade to full simulator, there's a way to play for everyone. Join over 95 million players in epic PvP battles. And with an unmatched wealth of content, there's no game better for fans of military history. Play War Thunder for free on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and mobile and unlock a massive bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more using our link. I know that was a lot of tech news to take in just now, but I have wonderful news. There's still five more quick bits and you gotta finish them all. I know you can do it. There's gonna be a treat after Open Wide. AMD is launching its Ryzen AI 400 Pro Series desktop CPUs, which confusingly are replacing the Ryzen 8000G lineup. But we're far beyond any of these chip names making any sense at the at this point, there are six new AM5 processors that pair Zen 5 CPU cores with RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics and also an NPU. I guess these new chips are basically upgraded laptop CPUs meant for OEMs and business PCs. At least with the new NPU you won't get too hot and sweaty in the sheets with Copilot trying to work out naming conventions. Put that robot arm to good use. Spreadsheets Seems like everyone just found out about California's Digital Age Assurance act, passed in October 2025, mandating all operating systems including Linux and SteamOS to ask for your age during setup. By January 1, 2027. The OS will send your age signal to apps so they know which content to flag as restricted. But despite the non compliance fines that can run up to $7500, age setup is completely self reported, no photo ID upload required. It's foolproof, so prepare for a shocking demographic shift of Linux users magically born on January 1, 1900, which is exactly how old I feel when a youth mentions jester maxing or mogging. YouTube is testing yet another AI feature for shorts. All your favorite things in one story. This time it's Ad Object, which allows users to insert items into a scene, and Reimagine, which can generate video from a single frame of a different short whether it's yours or someone else's. Do ours. Do it. Don't want your likeness to be used in fever dreams created by strangers? I do. You can opt out, I won't. But that disables all regular remixing on your channel. And if I can't remix other people's shorts, what is there even to post that original content? Post something so I can post it. A new machine from Nobel Prize winning chemist Omar Yagi can pull up to 1000 liters of drinkable water per day straight out of your butt, straight out of desert air, even in humidity as low as 20%. Stop laughing Riley. The shipping container size system uses special materials called metal organic frameworks, basically ultra porous molecular sponges that grab water vapor from the air and release it when heated by sunlight. It can run off grid using just wind and solar energy, meaning remote communities could literally generate water from thermal energy Thin air. I guess the only question is can we get an invite to the inaugural pool party? Not you. You've been rude. This pool is dry and a developer named Victor Larios has recreated a 1994 era Linux desktop environment that runs in your browser, complete with a recreation of the classic CDE interface and Ximax text editor and in true 90s fashion, Netscape Navigator. The reports say it's about a stable as Linux. I mean a stable as you'd expect for something pretending to be three decades old. The open Source project runs as a modern web app, though reports say it's about as stable as you'd expect for something pretending to be three decades old. You can also download it from GitHub and run it locally if you want to. Although I'm not totally sure why you would. Although you're a Linux user, so it might make sense now. We just needed to run doom. After all, 94 was the year the game was ported to Linux. Fun fact. I knew that and you didn't. I also know you're gonna come back here on Wednesday for more tech news because you're a fortuitous person. You have what it takes to get hit with everything life throws at ya. And keep standing. Stand tall, player, and you just might shoot the high score. What am I saying? There's so many different ways to take this. You're gonna make it to championships. Okay, Lifelock. How can I help?