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As an example,
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they ask you to imagine sending your friends some fresh-baked AI slop for their birthday.
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That'll be kind of funny.
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The first time I made this for you.
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No, you didn't.
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You bitch.
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What about using AI to help you edit a nice heartfelt note instead?
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Using our sponsor,
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Not many people know this,
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but QuickBits is actually a nickname.
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It's short for Quitchard Bits Gerald.
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Now, you know,
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A man I killed in 1973.
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Microsoft has finally killed WordPad,
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the rich text editing word processor
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that debuted on Windows 95.
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Microsoft has added it to its list of removed features and functionality.
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It'll be gone from all editions of Windows,
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starting with Windows 11 version 24H2,
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which started rolling out this week.
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We are witnessing the death of a legend, so pour one out,
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but not just any drink,
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something classy.
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Something fit to celebrate the life of a program born in the 90s,
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an aged can of Surge.
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A few days ago,
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Amazon's Ring sent an email out to Protect Plus subscribers,
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reminding them that they would be migrated to the Protect Pro plan next year,
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doubling their subscription fee.
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That reminder comes with heavy air quotes
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because The Verge tracked down when Ring sent its original notification,
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which turned out to be a tiny fine print footnote
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in a September 2021 email with the subject line,
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important, your plan name has changed.
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The email said, quote,
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don't worry, everything else is staying the same.
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Ring sent a similar email to Canadian Ring Home Standard subscribers this week
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with the heading, new name, new features, same great price.
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The email then informs users that their subscription
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will no longer include alarm professional monitoring and SOS emergency response,
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because now calling the cops costs extra.
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Do you think calls to the police grow on trees?
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Mm.
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Someone's got to pay him.
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The government, who?
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Google is testing the use of blue check marks
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as a way to protect users
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from fraudulent links in search results.
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Hovering over the check mark explains
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that Google is pretty sure the business is who they say they are.
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An example of this, also from The Verge,
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depicts a notice that says,
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Google can't guarantee the reliability of this business or its products.
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But to be fair, the business in question was Apple.
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Ba-doom.
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Fruits!
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Oh, the symbol, I needed the symbol.
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Ba-doom.
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That's a new rim shot.
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Ba-doom, fruits!
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Speaking of unreliable products,
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Google searches AI overview feature
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will now be getting ads that are relevant to your question.
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Finally,
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Gemini won't just tell you to eat rocks,
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but also recommend the tastiest ones.
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I like igneous rocks the best.
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Samsung issued a faulty software update two days ago
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that bricked many older Galaxy smartphones globally.
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Even worse, the issue seemed to have been caused by an update to Samsung's SmartThings Framework app,
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an automatically installed app
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for controlling compatible smart devices.
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I feel like users still rocking Galaxy phones from 2019
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aren't splurging on a smart fridge.
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We're not sure whether this was necessary.
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They're buying sensible things,
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like basically anything else you can buy.
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Cabbage.
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which you put in a dump fridge
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But the smart fridge enthusiasts watching this video may be excited to know
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that Apple fixed the update that was bricking M4 iPads.
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What a transition.
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I'm not saying only smart fridge owners own M4 iPads,
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but I'm pretty sure they could afford one.
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I want a fridge I can watch TikTok on.
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And a court has dismissed a shareholders lawsuit
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against Tesla over Elon Musk's exaggerated claims about its full self-driving feature.
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Of course, the case wasn't dismissed
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because those claims were true,
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but rather because, according to Tesla's own lawyers,
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the statements were nothing more than corporate puffery,
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AKA bullshit that no reasonable investor would have taken seriously.
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I mean, come on guys,
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we're all just, this is just locker room talk, like.
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But Elon had less success in Australia,
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where a court upheld a $418,000 fine against Twitter,
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which the corporation formerly known as Twitter
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fought on the grounds that,
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following its merger with X Corp,
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Twitter no longer exists.
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