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Hey, how's it going? You see all that tech news that happened? Oh, that's crazy. You didn't. Oh man. You want me to tell you about it? Windows 11 has overtaken Windows 10 in Desktop Market share on Stat Counter for the first time since launching nearly four years ago, just when everyone was actually starting to like Windows 10. It was the perfect time. Now, Stat Counter isn't a perfect perfect Measurement, but Windows 11 did already overtake Windows 10 on the Steam hardware survey back in September 2024. So it's not far fetched to assume we are awake and this isn't some gruesome nightmare. It's really happening. Oh God, I thought we had more time. Ironically, Microsoft recently threw Windows 10 Die Hards a bone in the form of free extended security updates for a year if they simply sign into a Microsoft account and sync their PC settings. But I wouldn't count on Microsoft's generosity long term. They have the high ground now. And if Star wars taught me anything, it's that in this situation you should absolutely not try to attack. Just stay. Just play dead. Actually, I forgot that Obi Wan jumps up and beats Darth Maul in Episode one. The message of Star wars is actually just Obi Wan always wins. Don't with Obi Wan Gamers formed an angry mob this weekend over a recently discovered clause in Ubisoft's end user license agreement that says if the agreement is terminated, the the user must destroy all copies of the product, in this case the game. The story picked up Steam due to the renewed popularity of the Stop Killing Games initiative, which, if I understand it correctly, calls for the practice of game destruction to halt entirely. There's just one problem. While many repeated the claim that the destroy clause was a new addition to Ubisoft's license agreement, it's not new. And it's also an extremely common clause in gaming license agreements across the board. As pointed out by the gamer and Redditor Amon274, such game destruction in the event of license termination is required in all sorts of game license agreements, including Square Enix, Sega, and even precious Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios. You were the chosen one. So I guess legally we collectively have not been destroying nearly enough games. We better get to work. Or at least that may be how Video Games Europe feels. The industry association spoke out against the Stop Killing Games initiative, saying that requiring games to have some kind of end of life plan that doesn't involve permanently blocking players from ever again accessing a game they paid for is it's just impossible. I'm sorry. And it's not because Video Games Europe is a lobby group for AAA publishers with a financial incentive to keep things the way they are. They're gamers. They're video gamers from Europe. Samsung is gearing up to unveil new folding phones on Wednesday, so it must be embarrassing to have all of their specs leaked beforehand. When Future writer Roland Quandt posted official Samsung promo materials with specs for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7 and Flip 7 FE, revealing that if a Z Fold 7 with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage and is what you want to spend your money on, no one will be able to stop you. Sadly, there was also a leaked video showing off the Z Flip 7's massive front display and they even leaked the new Galaxy watches. The watches mark the watches. There's a spec table on Deal Labs. Hopefully you can read French. I have no idea what that says. We'll have all the official confirmed details on Wednesday after Samsung's unpacked, which is happening just days after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said his company dropped its lawsuit against Samsung, having apparently reached a settlement. Very cool. The only thing that could make a folding Flip Flop seven more exciting is having Fortnite Pre installed. I changed my mind, it would be having our sponsor Ugreen's Nasync DXP 480T pre installed. I know that's impossible, but a man can dream. Good thing I don't have to with this NAS though. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a storage capacity of up to 32 terabytes through its full 4M2 NVME SSD slots, a 10 gigabit Ethernet port for peak speeds of 1,250 megabytes per second, and Wi Fi 6 multi user sharing and Multi Device login for instant access anywhere, and even an AI album assistant that can identify people, places and animals. In case you ever forget what they look like, Check out the Ugreen NASync DXP480T at the link in the description and get 20% off until July 11th. Yeah, so that happened. That was all before the quick bits. Intel is planning to launch a refreshed lineup of Arrow Lake CPUs in the second half of this year, according to ZDNet Korea. The chips will reportedly feature higher clock speeds and an upgraded NPU that could qualify them for the extremely prestigious and highly sought after Co Pilot PC designation. No matter how good they are, though, they won't have 192 cores and use 500 watts of power like the flagship chips from Intel's upcoming Diamond Rapid Xeon lineup, so I'll be disappointed either way. Bytedance is working on a new version of the app for US Customers to replace the old one if this deal to sell TikTok to new American owners ever actually comes to pass. Getting all American users to switch to a new app may present some technical challenges, according to some analysts, but that's all contingent on China approving the sale. When asked if he's got a deal ready with China, Trump recently told the media, pretty much making everyone feel good about spending time on that interaction. Lossless Scaling the extremely popular Windows app that adds modern upscaling and frame generation to unsupported games is being ported to Linux by a developer named pancake task. The GitHub projects titled LSFG VK, which I know stands for Lossless Scaling, Frame Generation, and then Vulkan maybe, but I read it as les f Cking go Vikram. All I know is you better appreciate the devs labors because they say they went through psychological torture to make this project work. Which makes sense because it's Linux. And look at this little USB C flash drive designed to look like a real life Mac OS folder, huh? Designer David Delahunty worked with Super Fantastic toys to bring the folder drive to life. And it is cute. It's okay to admit that Windows people although it's a drive, so it should have been made to look like the Mac OS drive icon instead of, you know, a folder is inside a drive. But this, you know, this is fine. It's cute, it's fine. But I won't be fine unless you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. I'll be here on Worried Sick that you're out there getting into trouble with a crew of hooligans touching grass and getting dirt in your fingernails. You know, worms live in dirt. I just learned about this.