• Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI
• Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype
• Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
• OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions
• AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned.
• Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
• Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep researh tool
• Anthropic makes 'jailbreak' advance to stop AI models producing harmful results
• WSJ: The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America's AI Work Be Too?
• EU AI Act: Ban on certain AI practices and requirements for AI literacy come into effect
• Cathy Gellis: When It's Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
• a16z slides on AI and voice
• Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra
• Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure' if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
• The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America's Worst Criminals
• Hilarious analyst on Tesla
• How the DJI Flip uses AI
• Marketers will have to market to AI agents
• AI systems could be 'caused to suffer' if consciousness achieved, says research

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Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $24.1 billion on revenues of $69.6 billion in the quarter ending December 31, the second quarter of its fiscal 2025. Those figures represent gains of 10 percent and 12 percent year-over-year (YOY), respectively.

Microsoft Earnings Overview

• Not much going on with client-side products and services, so a focus on AI
• Productivity and Business Processes: $29.4 billion in revenues, up 14 percent YOY. This was 42.2 percent of Microsoft's earnings
• Intelligent Cloud: $25.5 billion in revenues, up 19 percent YOY. This was 36.6 percent of Microsoft's earnings
• More Personal Computing: $14.7 billion, unchanged from the year-ago quarter. (Literally flat YOY.) This was 21.1 percent of Microsoft's earnings

Windows

• Microsoft testing AI-powered search in Windows 11 Dev
• New Canary build- Windows Midi Services preview, OneDrive resume, File Explorer folder resume
• Microsoft is experimenting with new Windows 11 UIs
• Microsoft Edge text rendering comes to all Chromium web browsers on Windows - That only took a few years
• Microsoft explains deprecation after using the term for decades

AI

• Week 2 of submitting to our new Chinese overlords
• Gemini catapults into the lead for a few days as Gemini 2.0 becomes broadly available
• Inspired by DeepSeek, OpenAI releases reasoning model to free ChatGPT
• This comes after Microsoft added it to Copilot
• Reasoning vs. traditional models
• Also, DeepSeek R1 is on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
• Sam Altman discusses DeepSeek, more
• OpenAI offers up an AI research assistant

More Earnings (Lightning Round)

• Intel - $14.3 billion in revenues, down 7 percent
• AMD: Revenues up 24 percent, market share gains on Intel
• Apple - Record $124.2 billion in revenues, up 4 percent
• Alphabet/Google: Revenues at $96.47 billion, up 12 percent - CapEx expenditures closing in on MSFT
• Samsung - Revenues up 12 percent to $52.2 billion
• Spotify is profitable for full year for the first time

Microsoft 365

• Designer makes its way to Photos (Windows) and Microsoft 365 Copilot app (mobile)
• Microsoft is removing the VPN from Microsoft 365 Family and Personal
• Outlook for Mac to get email recall feature

Xbox

• Starfield is coming to Game Pass Standard this month, more Game Pass titles
• Forza Horizon 5 is coming to PS5
• Two Age of Empires titles are coming to PS5
• Remember that Microsoft partnership with Start.gg? Me neither
• Nintendo revenues, Switch sales fall more than expected, will no longer beat DS this fiscal year

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: It's time for an online account audit
• App pick of the week: Another week of big browser update
• RunAs Radio this week: Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans
• Margarita of the week: 2 oz white tequila, 1.5 oz Triple Sec, 1 oz fresh lime juice.

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• Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities?
• What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online?
• What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean?
• Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free?
• Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused.
• An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability.
• The new US "ROUTERS" Act.
• Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship?
• Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000.
• Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge.
• Bitwarden improves account security.
• What's still my favorite disk imaging tool?
• And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI

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Apple releases its first-quarter results. Apple has reportedly canceled work on Mac-connected augmented reality glasses. What is Hot Tub, an app that was approved in the EU through the approved alternative app store, AltStore PAL? And you can listen to Dr. Ricken's book, 'The You You Are', from Severance.

• Apple reports first quarter results.
• Apple's Invites invites you to send invitations.
• Apple in 2024: The Six Colors report card.
• Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones.
• Apple scraps work on Mac-connected augmented reality glasses.
• Mark Gurman on X: "A notable change coming to AppleCare+ next week..."
• Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU.
• 25 years of The Sims turning players into gods.
• Twitterrific team launches new 'Tapestry' iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more.
• Everyone knows your location.
• How Apple Vision Pro is finding a home in medicine.
• Dr. Ricken's Severance book, 'The You You Are,' now available in free excerpt.
• Stage adaptation of AppleTV+ show "Schmigadoon!" opens at Kennedy Center, with new songs.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Pick: Hazel 6
• Alex's Pick: Sennhesier Ambeo + Sound Devices MixPre
• Andy's Picks: New Pebble!

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• Takeaways From a Monumental Week for AI
• Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source | TechCrunch
• DeepSeek's AI success is overshadowed by a serious security breac
• AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch
• OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, nuclear weapons security
• The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes
• OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model | TechCrunch
• Rabbit R1 and Pebble
• Apple's AI and AR Struggles Show It Has Lost Some of Its Product Edge
• Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
• Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott
• Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
• Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems
• Elon Musk seizes computer system, locks out senior government officials
• Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
• Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
• 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
• Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates
• Super Bowl Sundays are really noisy everywhere in the US

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• Leo's AI Toys
• DeepSeek
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
• Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
• 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
• The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
• Paris' new TV
• Scoldy Mastodon
• Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
• Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
• Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
• Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
• New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
• Technological puritanism
• All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
• By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
• The mayor of Merrymac

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Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell go over the latest batch of preview updates for January 2025, including KB5050094! The big story of the week revolves around DeepSeek and its noticeable effects on the modern AI world. Sinofsky even wrote a big piece on the latest AI assistant!

Windows 11

• Preview updates for Windows 11, 10 arrive ahead of February Patch Tuesday
• Windows 11 - Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects in the system tray, many File Explorer fixes, more
• Windows 10 - New Outlook replaces Mail, Calendar, People
• New Dev and Beta channel builds - Overdue battery icon updates in Dev, Snap Layout experiments in Beta
• New Canary build today with new File Explorer home view tab
• Microsoft to remove Dev Home from Windows - This never made sense, so that's fine, but its most important features will live on
• Microsoft Edge for Windows now has a Scareware blocker in preview

AI

• DeepSeek explodes out of the gate, sends Big Tech/AI stock reeling and opening up questions about how much money these companies are spending on AI
• Nadella, Altman, Nvidia all react to this change in interesting ways
• Steve Sinofsky - This was inevitable, disruption always comes from outside
• Ahead of this blockbuster development, a look at how the Microsoft/OpenAI relationship is changing - and now we need another look
• OpenAI announces Operator agent for ChatGPT in preview
• Google is bringing new Gemini features to Android and Pixel
• Google is also bringing NotebookLM to almost every Workspace tier, including the cheap one I (Paul) use, NotebookLM Plus to WS Standard and better

Microsoft

• Microsoft preps smaller Surface Pro and Laptop models with Snapdragon chips for some reason
• Microsoft is closing its UK-based "experience center"

Xbox

• Thanks to Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is the biggest game publisher in the world
• Phil Spencer: Xbox Series S a "real advantage" for coming portable gaming product
• Phil Spencer says hardware still "critical" to Xbox. More like "critical condition," am I right?
• No surprises at Xbox Developer_Direct, but a solid collection of games, including the new DOOM

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: It's time to start watching Dave's Garage
• App pick of the week: PowerToys, now with Zoomit
• RunAs Radio this week: Querying for Breaches with Mark Morowcyznski
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Blair Athol 12 Floral & Fauna

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• eM Client CAN be purchased outright.
• An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.
• An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.
• DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.
• Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.
• SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.
• Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.
• A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups

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What's going on with Siri? iOS 18.3 update is out now, along with a fix to a zero-day flaw. You can buy iPhones on eBay with TikTok installed on them as TikTok is still not available for download on the App Store. And on January 27th, 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at an Apple event.

• Siri is super dumb and getting dumber.
• iOS 18.3 is now available for everyone.
• Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades.
• Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices.
• iPhone's with TikTok installed.
• Update now: iOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3 include 20+ security updates.
• Apple Music pays artists more than 2x Spotify's average rates, per report.
• Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership.
• iPhone SE 4 appears in new photos and video, notch and all.
• Apple releases tvOS 18.3, HomePod 18.3, and visionOS 2.3 for all users.
• Apple earnings are coming.
• Office printer mishap sparks landmark gender pay discrimination lawsuit at Apple.
• Apple buys Boylston Street building for $88 million.
• Apple's next immersive Vision Pro film involves bull riding and arrives soon.
• Apple introduces the 2025 Black Unity Collection.
• Apple Watch bands are safe to wear, says Apple, after lawsuit filed.
• Oscar nominations completely snub Apple TV+.
• Severance - Tim C.
• Apple announced the iPad 15 years ago today.

Picks of the Week:

• Mikah's Pick: LARQ Bottle PureVis 2
• Alex's Pick: Power Prompter
• Andy's Picks: Retrobatch 2

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• The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
• Satya Nadella says he's 'good for $80 billion' after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn't have the cash
• How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
• Tesla brand value drops $15B in 2024
• Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
• Crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are collectibles, not securities
• Trump's Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support
• Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AI | TechCrunch
• Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with 'no successor' planned
• Startups are built on dreams. This one is just more literal about it.
• When S.F. fought 'Pac-Man'
• Interview with Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz
• Bill Gates: Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me

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• "Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
• Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
• What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
• Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
• SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub
• The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers
• Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
• Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
• Nokia's reaction to the iPhone
• The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy
• Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
• Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show
• The Whole World is Whining
• Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year
• Genrevision podcast

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