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Not a lot of people know this, but the tech news is actually mined directly from our writer subconscious using an elaborate Inception style setup. We had to go like three levels deep to get today's news. We lost some good men down there. Microsoft's Xbox mode, the full screen gaming interface it originally built for Windows handhelds as the full screen experience started rolling out to all Windows 11 PCs yesterday. The timing is a little awkward. Microsoft killed its this is an Xbox campaign in March. You know, the one insisting your phone and Fire TV Stick were already Xboxes because it didn't feel like Xbox. 6 weeks later, here's a feature that makes your laptop feel exactly like an Xbox.
Xbox mode replaces your traditional desktop with a console style home screen, aggregating your library from multiple stores into one window. Once it shows up on your PC, you can flip it on under settings, gaming, Xbox mode, or hit the Windows key plus F11 to drop straight in. Rollout is gradual and limited to select markets, expanding over the coming weeks. So, if you don't see it yet, your Windows 11 PC is just being shy. It's okay, little guy. You can be an Xbox, too. It's allowed now. Meta is threatening to shut down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in New Mexico if state prosecutors get their way in implementing a list of child safety changes cuz they hate children.
The threat comes after New Mexico won a $375 million lawsuit in March with a jury finding Meta liable for exposing children to sexual predators on its platforms. I rumba. During the trial, taped deposition showed Facebook CEO and man 99% of the way through a fish to human transformation Mark Zuckerberg calling harm to kids on his platforms an inevitability. Now, in a court filing, Meta is arguing that the attorney general's proposed reforms, which include CSAM detection, age verification, and a restriction on end to end encryption for minors, are technologically impractical. According to Meta, the shutdown threat only kicks in if the judge sides with the state at
the bench trial that begins May 4th, Star Wars Day. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres is unmoved, calling the threat a PR stunt. truly no one in the universe executes PR stunts as cringe as Zuckerborg. Speaking of young people and AI, miners in the US might not be able to use chat bots the same way in the future if a bipartisan bill goes through. The legislation dubbed the Guard Act would require AI companies to verify the ages of their users in order to bar miners from interacting with AI companions. It would also force chatbots to disclose to all users that they are not human. They're not. Okay. The bill follows a number of lawsuits against OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic
over LLMs being involved in several instances of teen violence and self harm. The bill cleared committee with a unanimous 22 nothing vote and now heads to the Senate floor where it could face push back from politicians who are subject to lobbying by big tech. the money. Texas Senator and retired member of the NAS Golf, Ted Cruz, has already introduced his own watered down version of the bill in order to protect those innocent AI companies against the dark spectre of child safety. One thing they won't need protection from gross is our sponsor. Shocks Open Fit Pro are openear earphones with noise cancellation because their three mic system kills background noise without sealing your
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7th, you can get free shipping sitewide on ltstore.com on any order over $150 in the US and Canada or $225 worldwide. No code required. Just load up your cart and get free shipping. And if you want an even lower threshold, I have a little secret for you. You can sign up for our supporter plus tier on float plane for an even better offer. Link down below. The Quickbits are a byproduct of the dream mining process. If we don't collect them and read them on air, they undergo catastrophic decompression in the dreamer's mind. It's like the Benz but imaginary. It's messy. Chinese GPU maker Liewan Tech earned Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs driver certification for its upcoming LX 7G
100, a 4060class gaming card launching in China this month. It's the first Chinese firm and only the fourth GPU maker to ever clear WHQL after Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. The certification is basically a passport into the Windows ecosystem. Meaning, if these cards ever leave China, Western gamers might finally have someone new to root for at the budget end of the GPU aisle. Ubuntu's website and login servers have been knocked offline since Thursday by a sustained DOS attack from Iran aligned activist group 313 team who paired the assault with an extortion demand. The group has previously hit Blue Sky and
Truth Social. Fair enough. But Ubuntu's parent company canonical is their first major open-source target. Bold strategy exorting a company whose main product is free to download. But I see you. Chinese researchers at the Hefe Institute of Physical Science have tested the world's first 10 megawatt truckmounted nuclear reactor, that's a brand new sentence, capable of running for decades on a single fuel load. The team is calling it a nuclear power bank and is now shopping it to potential customers with potential users including remote islands, ships that could go to remote islands, data centers which could be located on remote islands, and space stations. No connection to the previous. They've
basically made a USBC charger the size of a shipping container that could also irdiate a small town. Disgraced ex-h hardboard scientist Charles Liieber, who is one of the world's leading brain computer interface researchers, is rebuilding his lab in China. In 2021, Liieber was convicted of lying to the feds about accepting $50,000 a month from a Chinese state talent recruitment program. His work is focused on restoring movement in paralyzed people, something the US hates. Just joking. But this has the Pentagon concerned as the People's Liberation Army wants to use the tech to create super soldiers with better mental agility and situational awareness. So, good luck to Dr. Lieieber in his new career. And fingers crossed no one
kidnaps his dog, forcing him to complete his current character arc of becoming a Cold War era statebacked evil super scientist. And Huawei unveiled a new version of its XPixel headlight tech at the Beijing Auto Show. Capable of projecting fullcolor movies onto walls in front of a parked car. Debuting on the 80 M9 with more EVs to follow. The system can project interactive games for kids on the pavement like Hopscotch. Finally, a car designed to let your kids play directly in front of it while it's running. This is what we've been missing. The kids are too soft. Bobby, go jump in front of that car.
It's meant for it and you should jump back in front of the tech news on Monday. That's our show. That's everything we pulled out of the writer heads today. All the tech news at least. There was an ungodly amount of stomping Tom Connor's lyrics in there though. But those are for the weekend.
