WW 930: Flocculation & Saponification - Profanity filter, EU digital commitments, FY25 Q3

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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