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Microsoft Weekly + Microsoft made a Barney toy + Play the new Warhammer beta

Issue #269

Author

Steven Parker
July 09, 2023

I am back from my mini vacation, I hope you had a great week! Here's a recap of our most recent news, as well as the Microsoft Weekly, we hope you take a look!

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 12 concepts, Windows 11 hidden features, and malware-like Edge

Today on Microsoft Weekly: Sleek Windows 12 concepts; users discover more hidden features in Windows 11; Edge behaves like malware and installs unsolicited extensions; and Windows 11 grows on Steam.

Nvidia partners are reportedly turning their backs to the even more awful RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

Nvidia's RTX 4060 series have launched to extremely poor reception so far, especially the 8GB RTX 4060 Ti. A new report suggests AIB partners are not too keen on promoting the even worse 4060 Ti 16GB.

A quick look back at when Microsoft made an interactive Barney toy

Believe it or not, Microsoft launched an interactive toy line in the late 1990s that made plush toy versions of Barney, Arthur, and others that "interacted" with their TV show counterparts.

Software updates

India to launch Chandrayaan 3 lunar lander mission - TWIRL #122

We have a number of launches upcoming this week but the most interesting among them is ISRO's lunar lander mission, Chandrayaan 3. It will go to space on an LVM3 rocket and replaces Chandrayaan 2.

Elon Musk sues law firm over huge fee Twitter paid hours before he took over

X Corp has filed a complaint against law firm Wachtell Lipton over an excessive "success fee". The fee payment was approved by Twitter's board hours before Elon Musk took over the company.

Mastercard has developed a new AI tool to prevent scams

Mastercard has developed a new AI tool called Consumer Fraud Risk which helps banks to stop people from sending money to scammers. It could help prevent the loss of £100 million every year.

From the Forums

Weekend PC Game Deals: Ongoing summer sales, new Choice bundle, and more

This weekend's PC game deals include a brand-new Choice bundle with The Outer Worlds and Temtem as headliners, a surreal freebie for Metroidvania fans from Epic, and plenty more summer offers.

TwitchCon 2023: Twitch is the latest platform to get Instagram and TikTok-like features

Twitch announces new features at its TwitchCon 2023 event today. These include a new Discovery Feed, Stories, and Guest Star, among others. Some of these seem to be inspired by Instagram and TikTok.

Play the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin open beta test until July 10

You can play in the open beta test for the fantasy-themed RTS game for PC (via Steam), Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation 5. You can play in 1v1 multiplayer battles through July 10.

This week's deals

Tech deals we posted this week

You can pre-follow Instagram users on Threads, here's how

The newly launched social media app Threads allows you to pre-follow the users you already follow on Instagram. When these users set up their Threads profile, they'll have you on their follower list.

Windows Subsystem for Android Preview gets network, PiP, storage, and other improvements

Microsoft has started rolling out a new update for Windows Subsystem for Android Preview on Windows 11. Version 2306 offers improvements for networking, picture-in-picture, storage, and more.

Some Twitter users can go back to using the old and better version of TweetDeck

A few days after Twitter started moving TweetDeck users to a new version, it's now allowing at least some people to go back to the original version of the application, but that may be short-lived

Logging off

If you are looking for a good deal next week, be sure to check out our coverage of Prime Day, which takes place on July 11-12, many retailers will be offering deep discounts, as well as Amazon on it’s on products.

Have a good one!
Cheers, Steve.