One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
The new red-purple hue will be available on January 28th, adding a more vibrant alternative to the original “Graphite” version we reviewed last month. However, it looks like the “Fig” color will only be an option for the more expensive $679.99 64GB version of the Scribe Colorsoft.
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Sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to customers in China will be approved on a “case-by-case basis,” as Bloomberg reports. But the chips shipped to China can be “no more than 50% of the total products made for the US market,” and can’t create a shortage in the US.
Google is adding Meet’s automatic conference room detection feature to the Meet and Gmail mobile apps. First launched on laptops last year, it uses silent ultrasound signals that are picked up by your phone’s mic to automatically check you into your conference room and prompt you to join Meet calls with your device in Companion mode, avoiding annoying feedback or other problems.
GW won’t be making AI-generated Warhammer products any time soon, the Financial Times reports.
“We will be maintaining a strong commitment to protect our intellectual property and respect our human creators,” GW CEO Kevin Rountree says, adding that, among its senior managers, “none are that excited about [AI] yet.”
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The latest project from Moxie Marlinspike is Confer, an AI chatbot that claims to offer end-to-end encryption, as spotted by Ars Technica. It looks like ChatGPT, but it works like Signal — the platform’s developers can’t access, sell, or share user data, or even train the AI on it.
If you have a few hundred hours to spare, you can watch every episode of Survivor for free starting January 24th, as reported by TheWrap.
Episodes will be available on-demand and air in order on a 24/7 Survivor channel before Survivor 50 premieres on February 25th on CBS and Paramount Plus.
