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Susan Ettlinger
The PC gave us computing power at home, the Internet connected us, and mobile let us do it pretty much anywhere. Now, generative AI lets us communicate with technology in our own language, using our own senses. But figuring it all out when you're living through it is a totally different story. Welcome to Leading the Shift, a new podcast from Microsoft Azure. I'm your host, Susan Ettlinger. In each episode, leaders will share what they're learning to help you navigate all this change with confidence. Please join us, listen, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Mark Hatchman
Welcome back. I'm gonna sit here for this one. Is that cool? Mark A hot new wireless carrier and smartphone have been announced by none other than the Trump Organization, which is currently being run by the President's son, Eric. So there's no conflict of interest. I mean, they hardly know each other. The carrier service, Trump Mobile, will operate as a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, that will license parts of Verizon, AT&T&T mobile's network to offer the T1 phone a $500 gold colored iPhone knockoff Android phone apparently built entirely in the US Of A. Now, there have been many claims about how making iPhones entirely in the US would be impossible, but as reported by 404Media, there is at least one smartphone that did it. So the Liberty Phone from Purism. It just also costs $2,000, while the version made overseas is 800 bucks. The T1 phone lists some pretty decent specs. 12 gigabytes of RAM, expandable 256 gigs of storage. Wait, it doesn't say what processor, 120 Hz screen. None of this matters though, because it's probably not real. The only evidence we have is this low res bad Photoshop job. But it doesn't have to be real to revolutionize cell phones because it'll have more Internet, more international dial in for free. This phone has the most Internet you've ever seen. It'll be the biggest bang for your buck if you sign up for the 47 plan for 47.45amonth. Okay, apparently this is because Trump is the 47th and the 45th president. But if I'm gonna be swindled into pre ordering a fake gold Chinese phone, I expect you to commit to the bit. I'm staying on this stool. The who? Microsoft has confirmed user reports that Windows hello just doesn't work anymore in the dark after an April update changed the sign in feature to require your face to be visible to your computer's color camera, not just the infrared sensor. The change was made to mitigate a vulnerability that made it easy for attackers to spoof Windows hello. And while basement dwellers may be upset about this, you can't say the same about Mark Hatchman, author of the PC World article Windows, hello, Webcams have stopped working in the dark. I don't care if you can't log into your laptop because of a power outage and you live in that town in Alaska that doesn't get daylight for two months. Hey, that's not my problem. In other Windows news, users running an Insider build were surprised to log into their Windows 11 PCs and hear the startup chime from Windows Vista. Microsoft called the switcheroo a delightful blast from the past in the release notes, and a manager on the Windows Insider team says he had some fun with the sound files on Twitter before clarifying that okay, yeah, it's an actual bug and we're working on a fix. We're so sorry. The online ad ecosystem is being shaken up right now. Following Amazon's new AI video ad features, TikTok is expanding their Symphony suite of AI ad tools to include generated videos of products. Advertisers can generate a bunch of five second clips by uploading an image of their product, either directly on TikTok or through the tools that the company is licensing to third parties like Adobe Express. Which is terrible because the ads were one of the only things on TikTok that I knew was real. What I didn't know about was the Updates tab in WhatsApp, where the chat app will be introducing its first ever ads. The company described the addition of ads as helping you find more stuff on WhatsApp or which was my primary complaint before. WhatsApp is cool, but I wish it could help me find more channels and businesses. I use Reddit for that, which will now allow advertisers to attach user generated positive posts about a product to their ads, along with an AI generated summary of the discussion in those threads. I'm assuming they'll skip over the replies accusing the OP of hating Thing X because they said they liked Thing Y. It's better to stay balanced with our sponsor Ground News. They can help you break free from toxic algorithms and actually understand just what the heck is actually going on out there. Which is why the Nobel Peace center recognized Ground News as an excellent way to stay informed and avoid echo chambers. But how? Look at all this room I have. Well, they collect and compare articles covering the same story from around the world, breaking down the political leanings and ownership of each news source so you can understand why they may report the way they do and find out what they or you may be missing. Take the recent story about people probably unknowingly posting their private chats on the Meta AI app, which was reported on way more by left leaning outlets. And some stories have even more one sided coverage. But with Ground News Blindspot feature you can learn about stories the algorithm might not be showing you. So get the transparency and understanding you deserve from the news and save 40% on ground news Vantage plan by using our link in the description okay, Want some quick bits or intel may be planning a massive return to powerful desktop chips next year. If this leak mentioning the company's next gen Nova Lake s platform is anything to go by. Twitter leaker Golden Mango listed a lineup with a flagship CPU featuring 52 cores, 16 performance, 32 efficient and 4 low power. I'm not sure if that's real, but this one probably is. Also Twitter leaker Momomo posted an intel slide describing the Core 5 processor 120F, a no frills gaming CPU with six performance cores and nothing else. Intel doesn't care which one you buy, but please just buy one of them. Anything Controller maker Gulikit claims they've figured out how to make their controllers wake the Nintendo Switch 2 from sleep mode, something gamers were dismayed to discover was only possible with the Switch Pro controller thanks to a new system protocol. Hopefully more companies figure this out too, so gamers can wake their Switch 2s only to find out that the ethernet port in its dock is borked. Nintendo has acknowledged the issue, which is being experienced by a bunch of people, apparently, but so far there's no permanent fixes. Maybe because Nintendo wants you to take a break, get up and get outside for a change, meet some people, bond over how annoying and restrictive Nintendo's infrastructure is, work together on a company that lets people bypass it. So Nintendo can sue you? Not me. I'm staying inside. The founder of 23inch and Wojcki has successfully reclaimed the assets of the genetics testing company after winning its bankruptcy auction. Phew. Now all of that genetic data will land back in the hands of the person who started the company that collected all of it in the first place. Is this better? The cycle never ends. And how much did she bid to win the auction? $23 million. The number 23? No, it was 305 million, but I'm sure you can divide that to get to 23. Somehow, Etsy is cracking down on the sale of 3D printed products, saying that physical items made using computerized tools must be produced based on a seller's original design. Now Etsy's new rules allow non original 3D printed designs if they're sufficiently modified by hand. So sticking on some googly eyes to your thousands of chain link plastic dragons, it's probably not gonna cut it. You put feathers on them. Maybe dragons didn't have feathers and Nexus Mods Perhaps the Internet's biggest game mod repository has apparently been sold. In a blog post, the platform's founder, Robin Darkone Scott basically said he's been doing this since 2001 and despite having his team handle more and more of the site recently, he's frickin tired. So he's handing the site over to new ownership. Although we don't know the real names of the new owners, their handles on Nexus mods are Fuladino and Rapsack, and I think they might be Pokemon. Scott assures the Nexus mods community that the values and direction of the platform won't change. It'll always be community first and mod author focused, whether those authors are crafting fleshed out story driven expansions for Skyrim or flesh driven Gooner outfits for for Stellar Blade. Somebody get Nintendo to check on those. Know that's as you know, it's a. It's a heck of a thing. More tech news on Wednesday. Yeah, probably.