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Sometimes it's hard to tell what's tech news and what's not. Like if I put robot arms and legs on a banana, is that tech news? What about a mango? Microsoft says it wants everyone to Upgrade to Windows 11 this year before Windows 10 loses official support in October. But at the same time, they're making it more difficult to do so on unsupported hardware. The tech giant quietly deleted guidance about how to bypass Windows 11's TPM requirement from its own support page, although you can still see the registry tweak instructions on the Internet Archive, which which is, as always, based. But Microsoft has also blocked and labeled Flyby 11, a popular third party utility that lets users skip the hardware requirements check in Windows 11 as malware. According to the tool's developer, similar tools like Rufus still exist, but I'm guessing Microsoft isn't jazzed about those either. What do you want, Microsoft? It's like you invited everyone at school to your party and then only let in the ones who brought the invite with them. Like, okay, you have fun in there. We're gonna be playing Twister on the lawn. It's the hot spot. Chinese AI company Deepsea got really popular recently, so of course a US Senator has proposed a potential law that would criminalize importing it, along with any tech developed in China on the threat of million dollar fines and prison time. The bill is kind of like your mom saying we have AI at home, including Google's new Gemini 2.0 models being rolled out for consumers and developers. Google says they're pretty good. Maybe they'll be good enough to power weapons systems, since Google just erased the section of their AI Principles webpage. That said, the tech giant wouldn't let their AI be deployed for weapon systems, but it's preserved once more by the Internet Archive. You to you the best why? I don't know why, but despite AI being added to guns and literally everything else, Anthropic is telling job applicants not to use it to help write their applications because they want to evaluate your non AI assisted communication skills. It's almost like there's some kind of value to forming thoughts using your own words I'll have to ask ChatGPT about that later. Richest man in the world Elon Musk appears to be on a mission to access as much previously protected US government data as he can. Leading squads of his fellow special government employees, which are also employees of private companies, and even executives like new treasury staff member Tom Krause, who is also currently the CEO of Citrix parent company Cloud Software Group. Thomas Shedd, a Tesla engineer who is now the head of an IT group in the General Services Administration and who suggested they make illegal changes to a government login system, is yet another example of Elon's penchant for funneling Tesla resources to his other private companies, for which he's currently already being sued. What's another one? Big whoop? Musk having access to these kind of government resources that could be used to benefit the multiple federal contracts he holds through SpaceX is a bit of a conflict of interest. So Congressman Mark Pocan is working on a bill that would ban this practice called the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy or the Elon Musk Act. What? No, don't name it after him. He'll like that. Although he'd probably prefer you put an X in there somewhere to cherry on top. I'd prefer you check out our sponsor Odoo and their full suite of business management software. 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Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods are coming into effect and caused the US Postal Service to briefly suspend all inbound parcels from China this morning while they figured out what extra fees need to be tacked on. The EU is also looking to tax Chinese goods that were previously cheap enough to skirt customs duties, so prepare for your Temu, Shine and gaming handhelds even to be less wallet friendly. China is apparently responding by opening antitrust investigations into Google and Apple, which may end up hurting those companies. But it's also something that America's own FTC was trying to do under previous chair Lina Khan. But the government likes big tech now, so I'm sure the president is real torn up over what's happening to his friends. OpenAI has dropped the sign in requirement to use ChatGPT search on the web. You can access it through chatgpt.com, but OpenAI.com has also gotten a facelift along with a new logo. The homepage features a big old prompt search bar, just like Google. I'm probably gonna keep using Google just because asking an AI to search for me is only a little better than asking a fellow human what they know about a topic. And half the time these days they just pull out their phone and ask ChatGPT. We could just skip the middleman Sonos has had a rough year, but now it thinks it has just the ticket. The Verge is reporting that part of the company's comeback plan is the launch of an Android based streaming box to help consumers forget about how the company's redesigned app borked people's expensive speaker setups. Last year. The box could launch in April for 200 to $400, signaling that Sonos has totally fixed all of their glitches. Otherwise, why would they price it that high? Think about it. And researchers from Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon University have published a framework allowing robots to copy the complex movements of top athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James. Why do you say it like that? That's how you say it. Or at least try to copy their movements. They're doing their best, but sadly they're still not quite stable enough to use as a platform for this actual working plasma cannon with a 35 foot range developed by slightly insane engineer Greg Lee. Maybe next time though, and maybe this Friday you'll come back for more tech news. I should have a better grasp of what fruits and vegetables do and don't qualify for tech news by then. Figure it out. What are you talking about? You just got I came in late. You're missing the context.