The company announced it was preparing to roll out the program, which lets people earn in-game sponsored items by completing quests while friends watch in Discord. According to The Wall Street Journal, that sponsored Quests will roll out in earnest next week.
The House is removing and blocking Copilot from “all House Windows Devices” after the Office of Cybersecurity determined that it risked “leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” reported Axios.
The House cited similar concerns when it restricted the use of ChatGPT in congressional offices last year and declared that no non-ChatGPT chatbots were authorized yet. A Microsoft spokesperson told Axios that meeting “federal government security and compliance requirements” with AI tools like Copilot is on its roadmap for “later this year.”
Developer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted a new “challenges” feature being developed for Instagram’s Telegram-like broadcast channels that lets creators start photo contests for members and award them prizes.
According to the screenshot Paluzzi shared, channel members can interact with or report entries, and can also share them “in their stories, messages and across other apps.”
After April 2nd, Google will flip the lights off for its podcasts app sending it to the graveyard. Here are Google’s instructions for switching to YouTube Music or some other podcast app.
A new Humane video runs down a lot of the mundane things you’d do with the AI Pin, like taking pictures, navigating its menus, entering your Wi-Fi password. or unlocking the Pin.
This may be the first video that’s given me an idea what it’s like to use it rather than just show off its AI features (there’s some of that here, too).
Jason Snell of Six Colors details his experience with the MLB’s visionOS app now that the season is underway. Of the Gameday feature that puts a 3D-animated baseball field in your space during a game, he writes:
I couldn’t find support for Gameday when I first used the app, though later when playing back an archived stream, I did find Gameday available—from within the video playback, so you can’t use it for a game you’re not watching on the app. And it’s immersive, so you can’t put it up and then do something else, which is also probably a mistake.
Ah, the early days of the Vision Pro’s app ecosystem.
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Guy Dupont’s Hidden Agenda pedal takes your mouse and keyboard and reimagines guitar effects for them. For example, “distortion” makes your mouse jitter all around when you move it. Turn the knob up to increase the effect, or go the other way to smooth your mouse’s motion instead.
I’m enamored by its gadgety gadgetness, but I suspect it may actually have some real accessibility benefits.
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The company that usually specializes in premium OLED TVs has produced something refreshingly out of the ordinary. And I already hope it gets a sequel.
