The Weekly Tech Rant

This week we covered: News Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot app comes to iPhone and iPad Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement ⁠ Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried spared a second trial Rumours CES 2024 Rumours and thoughts! CES 2024 preview: The future of PC gaming hardware Int...

This week we covered: Our picks of the best gadgets, games, films and TV of 2023! As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

This week we covered: News Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly Microsoft exec hints at free ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming Microsoft is killing its Windows VR platform — announces deprecation of 'Windows Mixed Reality' Apple Has Reportedly Been Aiming To Launch Vision Pro In January UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users’ accounts Rumour...

This week we covered: News Nvidia sells half a million AI chips and bags $14.5 billion in just three months Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO EU’s iMessage antitrust investigation looks set to rule in Apple’s favor A bitter pill: Amazon calls on rival SpaceX to launch Internet satellites Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units G...

This week we covered: News Meta's controversial ad-free subscription is facing scrutiny from EU privacy campaigners IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is inves...

This week we covered: Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI OpenAI reportedly considering reinstating just-ousted CEO Sam Altman Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Breaking: Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI SpaceX’s second Starship flight test ends in an explosion minutes after launch Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics owner Embracer report 900 layoffs during "one of our strongest quarte...

This week we covered: News Apple says it is not making a new 27-inch iMac Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals xAI’s ‘Grok’ chatbot will be available to X Premium+ subscribers only Qualcomm and Iridium's satellite link-up loses signal The first GTA 6 trailer will launch in early December 2023, Rockstar confirm  Rumou...

This week we covered: News Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud All the news from Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac event X launches two new subscriptions to boost your replies Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite looks like the Windows world’s answer to Apple Silicon Apple decides to launch Apple Pay Later now, no longer ‘early access’ Games Forza...

This week we covered: Meta Meta’s $499.99 Quest 3 headset is all about mixed reality and video games Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Meta Quest 3 in December Google The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updates The Pixel Watch 2 is official with a Snapdragon W5 chip Google's Tensor G3 chip is focused on speeding up AI for the Pixel 8 phones Rumours Folding iPad as soon as 2024, says re...

This week we covered: News Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator Game on: FTC tries again to block Microsoft Activision merger Another console dad hangs up his spurs as PlayStation boss Jim Ryan announces he's retiring from Sony next year Cisco to acquire Splunk in $28B mega deal Online Safety Bill passes in the UK w/o iMessage impact, but government...

This week we covered: News Hackers had access to UK voter data for over a year before anyone noticed AMD’s FPS-doubling FSR 3 is coming soon, and not just to Radeon graphics cards Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics Intel confirms Thunderbolt 5 name, 120Gbps tech arrives in 2024 Razzlekhan and husband guilty of $4.5bn Bitcoin launder ULTRARAM may be a sill...

This week we covered: iPhone 15 IPhone 15 Pro /Pro Max Watch 9 Watch Ultra 2 iOS 17 MacOS Sonoma As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

What we’re looking forward to TV/Movies Foundation S2 Lower Decks S4 The Continental Gen V Dune 2 - March 2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - May 2024 Beetlejuice 2!! - September 2024 Games Forza Motorsport Starfield Payday 3 Tech Apple Watch Ultra 2 Meta Quest 3 As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

This week we covered: News Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns Elon Musk’s ‘fund your legal bill’ tweet is a brand new level of bullshit 'Unpatchable' vulnerability in Tesla's AMD chips allows free access to the cars' paywalled features Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world $5 billion Google lawsuit o...

This week we covered: News Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals UK privacy watchdog warns Meta over plan to keep denying Brits a choice over its ad tracking Kevin Mitnick, Once the ‘Most Wanted Computer Outlaw,’ Dies at 59 Fed’s deadline comes and goes without Tesla’s reply to Autopilot questions Elon Musk says he’ll ask Tim Cook to lower App Store fees for X subscriptions FBI found out who...

This week we covered: News Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk Meta blocking VPN access to Threads in EU Meta facing a $100,000 daily fine if it doesn't fix privacy issues in Norway Netflix Basic gone in the US and UK, doubling price of dumping ads Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light Sony agrees to 10-year Call of D...

This week we covered: News EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration it forced on 891 ex-employees, suit says Tesla ordered to cough up data for Autopilot probe or face heavy fines Razer is investigating a ‘potential breach’ after hacker tries to sell ‘encryption keys, database, backend access logins’ and more for $100,000 Threads Me...

This week we covered: News Private email shows PlayStation chief unworried about Xbox-exclusive Call of Duty Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff Here’s why Apple’s latest effort to bring games to macOS is a big deal The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook Meta wants to turn Facebook into an App Store replacement, at least in the EU Musk annoys Twitter users by capping number of tw...

This week we covered: News Apple has bought an AR headset startup called Mira Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock at a loss following UK order Nintendo sends Valve DMCA notice to block Steam release of Wii emulator Dolphin Sonos announces it needs to layoff 7% of employees and reduce real estate Neuralink receives FDA clearance to begin human trials of its brain-computer interface Meta Quest 3 Ships...

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This week we covered: Hardware MacBook Air 15 Mac Studio Mac Pro Software: iOS 17 iPadOS 17 tvOS 17 WatchOS 10 macOS Sonoma AR/VR Vision Pro As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

his week we covered: News EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers to the US There's good reason to believe that GTA 6 will release next year Elon Musk's lawyer just accused Microsoft of violating the Twitter developer agreement NASA picks Blue Origin to make a second human-crewed lunar...

This week we covered: News Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion Microsoft's Activision takeover approved by EU after UK veto Intel's Meteor Lake iGPU is set to shake up the entry level GPU market Google IO Google Pixel Fold: The thinnest foldable (with the biggest battery) in the US Pixel Tablet hands-on: Basically a $500 smart display with a detachable screen...

This week we covered: News Biden proposes 30 percent tax on cryptominers' power bills Apple and Google team up to bring AirTag-like unwanted tracking alerts to all item trackers on iPhone and Android Twitter is going to purge and archive inactive accounts Nvidia's Neural Texture Compression technology should alleviate VRAM concerns Rumours Apple Watch Series 9 could include the first speed...

This week we covered: News UK regulators block Microsoft's Activision acquisition in potentially fatal surprise blow Apple’s App Store can stay closed but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals court That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223M and goes all-in on the enterprise UK chip giant...