Major Windows 11 Feature, GONE

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Microsoft has suddenly and unexpectedly

announced that it will be ending support

for the Windows subsystem for Android

which allows Android apps to be

downloaded and run on Windows 11 the

company announced the deprecation

yesterday and the feature can no longer

be in stalled as of today those who

currently have Android app support will

have another year before support ends

entirely and the apps gradually break

and cease to function the feature was

first announced in 2021 and debuted a

year later but it lacked access to the

Google Play Store instead relying on the

Amazon app store which is what your mom

means when she says that we have the

Google Play Store at home it's also why

apparently nobody used this feature your

mom also thinks Jeff Bezos is Pit Bull

so it might not be obvious why somebody

would want to download Pokémon go to

their desktop but the idea was probably

to increase the amount of apps that can

be reasonably run on Windows powered

touchscreens while also providing an

answer to Chrome os's Android support

and Mac os's iOS app support while

Microsoft didn't say why they're

ditching Android app support now it's

unlikely that anyone will really lose

sleep over it as apparently no one

really cared about using Android apps on

Windows in the first place following

sustained criticism of its at best

half-ass attempt to comply with the eu's

digital markets act Apple has done some

soul searching and responded with a few

gentle tweaks to its current compliance

plan specifically Apple simplified the

process for developers to accept its

awful new business terms and added a

one-time termination option if devs want

to revert back to the previous less

awful terms but still kind of awful

press this button to give us more money

you didn't like it in there did you the

company will also no longer require a

letter of credit from makers of rival

app marketplaces so long as they have an

established app business in the EU and a

developer account in good standing that

is at least 2 years old one party you'd

expect to respond positively to these

changes is epic games best known for

multiple antitrust lawsuits against

Apple and Google and also some video

games but it turns out that only a month

after reinstating epic games developer

account Apple has once again terminated

it calling the gaming company verifiably

untrustworthy given its past Behavior

though it's unclear what in the past

month made them change their minds about

changing their minds while Google has

seemed to be responding in good faith to

the eu's new rules epic games is also

accusing them of half-ass compliance

following a Google blog post that

basically goes over how they already are

in compliance with the new rules despite

charging up to 27 % on web transactions

that they aren't even involved in

processing hopefully for Apple and

Google these quarter buttock changes

will be enough when the compliance

deadline comes which is March 7th

otherwise known as tomorrow and if

there's one thing the EU is known for

it's putting their entire ass into

everything they do the EU is most of a

continent it's it's got a pretty big ass

yeah whole assing everything according

to anthropic the other giant AI Tech

company its NextGen Claude 3 Opus model

matches and even occasionally surpasses

open ai's GPT 4 on several AI benchmarks

for reasoning math coding multilingual

understanding and vision but it can it

see why kids love Cinnamon Toast CR

Claude 3's lightweight and Ultra

lightweight variants Sonet and Haiku

fell short on some benchmarks but still

showed a distinct improvement over GPT

3.5 one of anthropics prompt engineers

Alex Albert even shared a cute anecdote

where Claude 3 Opus seemed to show meta

awareness that it was under evaluation

the test involved asking Opus to find a

needle in a Hy stack by answering a

question using a small piece of

information buried in a large collection

of documents equivalent to around

200,000 tokens in size after being asked

about pizza toppings Claude responded

with the correct phrase from the

documents then noted that the sentence

seemed out of place in the rest of the

material saying quote I suspect this

pizza topping

fact quotes may have been inserted as a

joke or to test if I was paying

attention it's kind of amazing to see a

robot that seems capable of determining

the intent of a test especially when I

still can't even tell when people are

hitting on me or white kids love

Cinnamon Toast CR speaking of hitting

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defined as a class of subatomic

particles that form the building blocks

of tech news and that's just science

Tesla's German gigafactory was

forced to pause production yesterday

after an electricity pylon close to the

facility was set on fire by environment

activists who identify themselves as the

volcano group I'm guessing they're

pyromaniacs who also want to help the

planet it's like a Dexter thing I have

to let it out somehow my Dark Passenger

he's hot my hot dark hot my hot Dark

Passenger unfortunately the arson attack

also knocked out power to thousands of

residents nearby not including the 100

or so environmentalists camping in the

surrounding Forest to try and prevent

Tesla from chopping it down one group

called Robin Wood told the BBC it had

nothing to do with the fire okay that's

a star let's be honest and this is why

lmg hasn't expanded to Germany there are

scores of angry Germans hiding in the

woods and they all hate each other have

you seen clous new European safety rules

will require car manufacturers to bring

back physical controls as of January

2026 turn signals windshield wiper

controls the car horn you know Hazard

warning lights and any built-in SOS

features need to have tangible controls

for cars to earn a five-star safety

rating so drivers don't have to take

their eyes off the road to fiddle with a

touchcreen which who thought of this in

the first place even more upsetting

Europe will require car makers to stop

giving drivers complimentary sleep masks

and Xanax prescriptions what are they

supposed to

do reality's hard Oregon has passed a

right to repair bill so competent Apple

won't stop bitching about it Senate Bill

1596 requires manufacturers to make any

documentation tool part or other device

they provide to authorized service

providers available to device owners and

independent repair shops while apple is

mostly in favor of the bill mostly dead

the company claims the wording May force

them to allow third-party biometric

sensors to work in their devices that

could lead to unauthorized access of

users personal data and that does sound

scary but Apple also expects me to trust

some guy just because he has a blue

shirt on and I feel like that might

undercut their

point in fact I trust them until I

notice that their shirts blue wait a

second where am I I went shopping for

groceries Google says that it's

adjusting its search ranking system to

downgrade the position of content that

exists primarily to summarize other

content a category that includes SEO

spam but also an absolute Avalanche of

machine generated content Google of

course has been in a NeverEnding arms

race against spam and lowquality content

since the dawn of time by which I mean

1998 however Google Now seems to be

tacitly acknowledging growing criticism

that its search results are getting

worse in no small part due to the

increasing availability and cheapness of

relatively highquality AI Tools in

particular Google says it will Target

large content Mills and reputation abuse

which is where otherwise respectable

sites allow themselves to be used to

raise the profile of certain kinds of

spam like a fine dining restaurant that

also sells TVs that fell off the back of

a truck if you want it chicken pom only

comes with spaghetti but this one LCD

it's got 56 channels and Linux that's an

operating system has hit an all-time

high market share of

4.03% of worldwide desktop os's

according to research firm stat counter

that's a respectable bump up from the

1.58% of desktops and laptops that ran

Linux 5 years ago in February 2019 while

by the Numbers the open source OS is

still Small Potatoes Windows dominant

market share has been falling for the

past decade and even Mac OS seems to

have more or less plateaued at around

20% the trend lines are looking good for

Linux long term so we wish a happy 4%

day and a godspeed to the Linux lovers

dorkiest of the Nerds I'm sorry for not

calling it gnu Linux the CrossFit of the

nerd community and if you're dorky

enough come back on Friday for more Tech

news we're going to make so many

references to sub routines and logic

gates and stuff it's going to be awesome

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hitting now it's time for

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