YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.
Windows
- Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
- Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
- Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
- Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
- Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
- That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting
Corporate
- Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
- Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
- Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
- Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales
Dev
- Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
- Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
- What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC
AI
- Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
- Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
- Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
- Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
- OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
- ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
- Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
- YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
- Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
- DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
- Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want
Xbox
- Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Be prepared
- App pick of the week: Firefox 138
- RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024
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