Miscellaneous Tech News
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Google will implement a Microsoft-style browser picker for EU Android devices
All EU Android users will get the option to turn down Google Search and Chrome.
If you remember all the way back in 2009, the EU's European Commission said Microsoft was harming competition by bundling its browser—Internet Explorer—with Windows. Eventually Microsoft and the European Commission settled on the "browser ballot," a screen that would pop up and give users a choice of browsers. Almost 10 years later, the tech industry is going through this again, this time with Google and the EU. After receiving "feedback" from the European Commission, last night Google announced it would offer Android users in the EU a choice of browsers and search engines.
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Apple’s updated AirPods are here, cost $199 with new wireless charging case
Existing AirPod owners can buy the wireless charging case for $79, too.
After announcing new iPads and iMacs earlier this week, Apple has released details about its next-generation AirPods. The new wireless earbuds, which are available for preorder today starting at $159, come with an updated, Apple-designed chip, more battery life, and "Hey Siri" voice-command support. Apple also debuted a new wireless charging case for AirPods that can be charged with any Qi wireless charger.
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Guidemaster: The best Windows ultrabooks you can buy right now
Ars tests out the biggest flagship laptops to see which are worth your money.
Buyers looking for premium Windows laptops today have plenty of choices; every few months sees some splashy launch of a new high-end PC. Ultrabooks have become the standard design for most premium Windows laptops, and they represent the best of what companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft have to offer in terms of design, power, and innovation.
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More mid-range Google Pixel rumors include updated specs, OLED display
We're almost at one year of mid-range Pixel rumors. Will it ever come out?
It's amazing that, despite originally hitting the rumor mill almost a full year ago and putting out pictures four months ago, Google's mid-range Pixel phone is still the subject of rumors. The latest report comes from 9to5Google, which has a new round of specs.
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Windows 10 version 1903 heads for the finish line
But anti-cheat software is apparently still an issue.
It's clear that Microsoft is in the very final stages of development of Windows 10 version 1903, the April 2019 Update. The fast distribution ring has seen two builds arrive this week after two last week, bringing with them no new features but a slowly whittled-down bug list following the development pattern we've seen in previous updates. In the past, the company has tried to release Windows 10 feature upgrades on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month, meaning there's just under three weeks left to go.
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“Energizing Times”: Microsoft to “go big” at E3 in response to Google Stadia
Microsoft gaming chief impressed but unsurprised by Google's announcement.
Microsoft announced its Xcloud game-streaming service last August, with the ambition of streaming console-quality games to gamers wherever they are—on their tablets, smartphones, PCs or even consoles. Yesterday, Google joined the streaming gaming fray with its announcement of Google Stadia, one-upping Redmond by offering the assembled press limited hands-on access to Stadia games.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
console-quality games to gamers
that's enough to make you not interested right there.
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Windows Defender antivirus coming to macOS, renamed Microsoft Defender
Microsoft is expanding the reach of its device management services.
Microsoft is bringing its Windows Defender anti-malware application to macOS—and more platforms in the future—as it expands the reach of its Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) platform. To reflect the new cross-platform nature, the suite is also being renamed to Microsoft Defender ATP, with the individual clients being labelled "for Mac" or "for Windows."
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@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
Pretty sure APT is the paid version. The version on Windows 10 is just called
WindowsMicrosoft Defender. The Defender APT is what you get with Microsoft 365 - or as a stand alone product (or perhaps part of Intune). -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure APT is the paid version.
Oh, I see. The article mixes the two as if they are the same - bad reporting.
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ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
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Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview
Preview is now available in two Azure regions.
The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and multi-user Windows 10 and Windows Server remote desktop services (RDS) and is hosted on any of Azure's virtual machine tiers. Microsoft is pricing WVD aggressively by charging only for the virtual machine costs; the license requirements for the Windows 7- and Windows 10-based services will be fulfilled by Microsoft 365 F1/E3/E, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5, and Windows VDA subscriptions.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
I'm 99% sure this will not be free in any way for the mac.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
I'm 99% sure this will not be free in any way for the mac.
All the Apple fanboys have plenty of money to piss away, buying this won't even be a drop in the bucket to them.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
Microsoft defines ATP as agentless. It's part of the advertising.
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HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China
HMD calls the event "an error" and has issued a patch.
HMD is in hot water following a report from Norwegian site NRKbeta, which found that HMD's Nokia 7 Plus was sending users' personal information to a server in China. HMD responded to the report, admitting, "Our device activation client meant for another country was mistakenly included in the software package of a single batch of Nokia 7 Plus."
