Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 4/5/24. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 4/5/24. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
The Revival of the Sony Walkman
The Sony Walkman, a iconic piece of tech from the 1970s, is making a surprising comeback. Despite being replaced by CDs, MP3 players, and streaming services, people are rediscovering the joy of listening to music on cassette tapes. The Walkman's return is not just about nostalgia, but about something deeper - the desire for control and intentional listening in a world of unlimited streaming options.
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Official SteamOS 3.8 On A Super Cheap Budget Gaming PC Runs Amazingly!
The video showcases a budget gaming PC built for $220, using an Optiplex 770, a Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU, and running the official SteamOS 3.8. The PC is capable of running AAA games at 1080p, with the RX 5500 XT providing better performance and power efficiency compared to other options.
The SteamOS installation was done using the Steam Deck recovery image, and the system has been updated to SteamOS 3.8. The video demonstrates the PC's performance with various games, including Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Doom Eternal, Spider-Man 2, and Borderlands 3, with frame rates ranging from 60 to over 90 FPS.
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Windows 10 Virtual Memory Adjustment
To optimize Windows 10 performance using virtual memory, start by opening the Control Panel, then navigate to System and click on Advanced system settings.
In the Performance Options window, you can adjust visual effects for better performance or proceed to the Advanced tab to modify virtual memory settings. To adjust virtual memory, uncheck the box to automatically manage the paging file size, then set a custom size, with the initial size set to the recommended amount and the maximum size set to one and a half times that amount. After making these changes, restart your computer to apply them.
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It gets AI models from San Francisco startup OpenAI and supplemental computing power from newly public CoreWeave in New Jersey. Microsoft has repeatedly enriched Bing, Windows and other products with OpenAI's latest systems for writing human-like language and generating images.
Microsoft's Copilot will gain "memory" to retain key facts about people who repeatedly use the assistant, Suleyman said Friday at an event in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters to commemorate the company's 50th birthday. That feature came first to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has 500 million weekly users.
Through ChatGPT, people can access top-flight large language models such as the o1 reasoning model that takes time before spitting out an answer. OpenAI introduced that capability in September — only weeks later did Microsoft bring a similar capability called Think Deeper to Copilot.
Microsoft occasionally releases open-source small-language models that can run on PCs. They don't require powerful server GPUs, making them different from OpenAI's o1.
OpenAI and Microsoft have held a tight relationship shortly after the startup launched its ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022, effectively kicking off the generative AI race. In total, Microsoft has invested $13.75 billion in the startup, but more recently, fissures in the relationship between the two companies have begun to show.
Microsoft added OpenAI to its list of competitors in July 2024, and OpenAI in January announced that it was working with rival cloud provider Oracle on the $500 billion Stargate project. That came after years of OpenAI exclusively relying on Microsoft's Azure cloud. Despite OpenAI partnering with Oracle, Microsoft in a blog post announced that the startup had "recently made a new, large Azure commitment."
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"Look, it's absolutely mission-critical that long-term, we are able to do AI self-sufficiently at Microsoft," Suleyman said. "At the same time, I think about these things over five and 10 year periods. You know, until 2030 at least, we are deeply partnered with OpenAI, who have [had an] enormously successful relationship for us.
Microsoft is focused on building its own AI internally, but the company is not pushing itself to build the most cutting-edge models, Suleyman said.
"We have an incredibly strong AI team, huge amounts of compute, and it's very important to us that, you know, maybe we don't develop the absolute frontier, the best model in the world first," he said. "That's very, very expensive to do and unnecessary to cause that duplication."
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Steve Ballmer, former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, on Friday, April 4, 2025. Microsoft Corp., determined to hold its ground in artificial intelligence, will soon let consumers tailor the Copilot digital assistant to their own needs.
"I think that disruption is very hard on people, and so the decision to do something for which disruption was inevitable, that needs a lot of popular support, and nobody could game theorize exactly who is going to do what in response," Ballmer said, regarding the tariffs. "So, I think citizens really like stability a lot. And I hope people — individuals who will feel this, because people are feeling it, not just the stock market, people are going to feel it."
Ballmer, who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, is among Microsoft's biggest fans. He said he's the company's largest investor. In 2014, shortly after he bought the basketball team for $2 billion, he held over 333 million shares of the stock, according to a regulatory filing.
"Fifty years from now, or 25 years from now, what is the one thing you can be guaranteed of, is the world needs more compute," Nadella said. "So I want to keep those two thoughts and then take one step at a time, and then whatever are the geopolitical or economic shifts, we'll adjust to it."
Gates, who along with co-founder Paul Allen, sought to build a software company rather than sell both software and hardware, said he wasn't sure what the economic effects of the tariffs will be. Today, most of Microsoft's revenue comes from software. It also sells Surface PCs and Xbox consoles.
"So far, it's just on goods, but you know, will it eventually be on services? Who knows?" said Gates, who reportedly donated around $50 million to a nonprofit that supported Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' losing campaign.
Microsoft AI chief Suleyman sees advantage in building models ‘3 or 6 months behind’
Training the top models in the world is very expensive and can duplicate previous work, said Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of artificial intelligence at Microsoft.
Microsoft owns lots of Nvidia graphics processing units, but it isn't using them to develop state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
There are good reasons for that position, Mustafa Suleyman, the company's CEO of AI, told CNBC's Steve Kovach in an interview on Friday. Waiting to build models that are "three or six months behind" offers several advantages, including lower costs and the ability to concentrate on specific use cases, Suleyman said.
It's "cheaper to give a specific answer once you've waited for the first three or six months for the frontier to go first. We call that off-frontier," he said. "That's actually our strategy, is to really play a very tight second, given the capital-intensiveness of these models."
Suleyman made a name for himself as a co-founder of DeepMind, the AI lab that Google bought in 2014, reportedly for $400 million to $650 million. Suleyman arrived at Microsoft last year alongside other employees of the startup Inflection, where he had been CEO.
More than ever, Microsoft counts on relationships with other companies to grow.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says, as shareholder, tariffs are 'not good'
Despite tariff impact, Microsoft's top shareholder said he's a long-term believer in the company, given its opportunity in compute and intelligence.
President Trump's new tariffs on goods that the U.S. imports from over 100 countries will have an effect on consumers, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC on Friday. Investors will feel the pain, too.
Microsoft's stock dropped almost 6% in the past two days, as the Nasdaq wrapped up its worst week in five years.
"As a Microsoft shareholder, this kind of thing is not good," Ballmer said, in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin that was tied to Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration. "It creates opportunity to be a serious, long-term player."
Ballmer was sandwiched in between Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and current CEO Satya Nadella for the interview.
"I took just enough economics in college — that tariffs are actually going to bring some turmoil," said Ballmer, who was succeeded by Nadella in 2014. Gates, Microsoft's first CEO, convinced Ballmer to join the company in 1980.
Gates, Ballmer and Nadella attended proceedings at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus on Friday to celebrate its first half-century.
Between the tariffs and weak quarterly revenue guidance announced in January, Microsoft's stock is on track for its fifth straight month of declines, which would be the worst stretch since 2009. But the company remains a leader in the PC operating system and productivity software markets, and its partnership with startup OpenAI has led to gains in cloud computing.
Remove That Massive Windows Hibernate File
The video tutorial explains how to remove the large Windows hibernate file from your hard drive, which can free up a significant amount of space. To do this, you need to disable hibernate on your Windows system, which can be done using a simple command in the Command Prompt.
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Debloating Windows 11: A Comprehensive Guide
This video provides a detailed guide on how to debloat Windows 11, covering various approaches, including the use of PowerShell scripts, custom distros, and tools like Windows 11 Debloat.
The guide aims to help users take control of their Windows 11 experience, removing unwanted features and improving performance. Key tools discussed include Windows 11 Debloat and Ultimate Windows Tweaker, which offer a range of tweaks to enhance privacy, security, and performance.
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