Full of Corn - CES 2024 announcements, Incase Designed by Microsoft, passkey support

It’s CES, so let’s observe a moment of silence for all the stupid #*$% our colleagues are covering right now! But there is some wheat in the chaff, of course
• Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn't Meteor Lake was mobile only?
• PC makers announce a lot of Meteor Lake PCs: Acer, Acer again, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, more, plus the MSI Claw mobile gaming handheld and the first ASUS NUC!
• Paul’s been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what’s the AI stuff really like?
• It’s not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs
• Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share
• Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?
• Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter
Windows 11
• Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone
• Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday
• Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version
• Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason
Microsoft 365
• Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase
• Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client
• Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date
AI
• OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed
• Has met with “dozens” of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential
• Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut
• Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content
• Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it’s telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI
• Interesting details about negotiations between the two
• Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf
• EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA
• Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise
• OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users
• Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board
• Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good
Xbox
• Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation
• Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18
• Minecraft Legends, RIP
• Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more
• Layoffs at Twitch
• After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce
Tips and Picks
• Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers
• App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers
• RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak
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