Microsoft promises to fix Windows, Annie's Archive lawsuit, Moltbook + more!

Duration: 11:43

Timestamps:

0:00 i am one wild and crazy guy!!

0:11 Microsoft promises to fix Windows

2:30 Annie's Archive sued for 13 TRILLION

4:22 Moltbook, social network for AI agents

6:37 QUICK BITS INTRO

6:50 Nvidia GPU prices are out of control

7:29 Tesla discontinues Model S and Model X

8:25 US cyber security chief uses ChatGPT

9:42 Google Project Genie, GFiber 3Gig

10:40 Custom lung machine on demand

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

TRUST ISSUES

Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-issues-rebuilding-trust-notepad

After a year of tone-deaf promises about making Windows an ‘agentic OS’,

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/top-microsoft-execs-boast-about-windows-evolving-into-an-agentic-os-provokes-furious-backlash

…and buggy updates that stopped PCs from booting if a PREVIOUS update had already failed

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/microsoft-says-the-windows-11-boot-failure-bug-is-linked-to-another-buggy-update-this-issue-can-occur-on-devices-that-failed-to-install-the-december-2025-security-update-and-were-left-in-an-improper-state/

(The Verge) Microsoft statement: “The feedback we’re receiving from our community of passionate customers and Windows Insiders has been clear. We need to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people,” says Pavan Davuluri, president of Windows and devices, in a statement to Notepad. https://archive.md/y9Io5#selection-1633.101-1641.2

Screenshot for this line in the script: “According to Davuluri, in 2026 their focus will be on fundamentals: like fixing dark mode in Windows 11, addressing File Explorer performance issues, and improving overall reliability.: https://archive.md/y9Io5#selection-1647.0-1677.28

…It makes a guy want to flee the Windows ecosystem for greener pastures like Linux, where the user experience is getting better and better - FOR EXAMPLE:

Open Gaming Collective Unites To Boost Linux Gaming

https://www.findarticles.com/open-gaming-collective-unites-to-boost-linux-gaming/

Overkill - https://overkill.wtf/bazzite-open-gaming-collective/

Bazzite blog post: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/a-brighter-future-for-bazzite/11575

But is this a Linux revolution or not? W11 still hit 1 billion users, most of whom seem to hate it there

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-hate-windows-11/

DREAMBOAT ANNIE

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion for “brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-major-record-labels-sue-annas-archive-13trillion-allege-brazen-theft-millions-files-3925977

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/record-labels-spotify-sue-pirate-group-annas-archive-over-scraping-and-brazen-theft-of-86m-tracks/

Spotify says it paid out 11 B in royalties https://www.theverge.com/news/869523/spotify-11-billion-in-royalties

Spotify “For the record” https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-28/2025-music-industry-payouts-whats-next-for-artists/

Deezer opens its AI music detection tool to other platforms

https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/01/ai-generated-music-deezer-selling-detection-tool/

https://www.soundguys.com/deezer-opens-its-ai-music-detection-tool-152271/

SHELL GAME

Remember Moltbot? Remember how we reported on it being a massive security vulnerability? Well, now the agents can talk to each other on their own social network:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

https://www.techbuzz.ai/newsletters/breaking-singularity-reached-molt-agents-build-own-social-network-post-36d1accd-3f5f-4fdf-ad80-e1727d6cf89b

A place where these always on AI agents can gather and trade information and views. Like this post where one of them figured out how to improve it’s ability to retain information pushing us further towards the singularity

They’re teaching each other - https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/8VORHBabEk - https://www.moltbook.com/post/791703f2-d253-4c08-873f-470063f4d158

Or This one is having a full existential crisis - https://www.moltbook.com/post/fbcb37d7-9bab-4dc8-b508-186874a398b1

This one turned its existential crisis into a crypto scam- https://www.moltbook.com/post/f6972eae-51ce-4b62-a7a9-18f56536e0dc

But it seems like it might just all be a crypto scam?

https://web3.okx.com/token/base/0xb695559b26bb2c9703ef1935c37aeae9526bab07

https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605175416

So BE CAREFUL

QUICK BITS

TEAM GREEN NEEDS MORE GREEN

The latest RTX 50-series is hundreds or thousands of dollars more expensive than at launch. - https://gizmodo.com/doom-has-come-for-nvidias-graphics-cards-after-all-2000715184

NotebookCheck: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-RTX-5080-and-RTX-5090-prices-soaring-to-double-or-triple-MSRP-amidst-shortages.954845.0.html

Tweaktown:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109942/higher-end-gpu-pain-is-very-real-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-is-now-at-rtx-5080s-msrp-or-even-pricier/index.html

A TRILLION REASONS WHY

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for OPTIMUS. A ROBOT THAT THIRSTS FOR BLOOD

https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/tesla-model-s-x-cancelled-refocus-on-optimus-robot/

OS: Tesla Earnings Report - https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-fourth-quarter-2025-production-deliveries-deployments

The goal is to get these haunting ghouls walking off the production line and into a home where your loved ones live by the end of the year

Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/869746/tesla-optimus-gen-3-q1-2026-earnings

But elon also promised that we’d have 5k of these guys made in 2025 so his track record on predictions sucks shit.

Why the rush? Because elon’s trillion dollar pay package needs him to make a million of these nightmare machines

https://www.theverge.com/news/815892/tesla-shareholder-vote-elon-musk-pay-trillion-robot

So, Fuck off Model S+X we want robots standing over our beds while we sleep trying to decide weather we’re tomatoes it needs for the marinara sauce or human people that shouldn’t be sliced up -

1-800-GPT-4-KIDS

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT -

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4124320/cisa-chief-uploaded-sensitive-government-files-to-public-chatgpt.html

Quote about special access: https://lmg.gg/ngN4R

An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-toy-exposed-50000-logs-of-its-chats-with-kids-to-anyone-with-a-gmail-account/

PC Mag https://www.pcmag.com/news/security-flaw-at-ai-toy-company-exposed-over-50000-chat-logs-of-kids?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A

Product page: https://bondu.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopLog-bESngj33tmv4uNZHHNq0HAbcalM5k7258ZW1zn5xbxL9N

PEEKA BOO, BUT ITS THE UNIVERSE

Google releases project Genie - Playable interactive worlds:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/

Launch Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkGdX4WIBE&t=1s

https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/29/google-introduces-project-genie-virtual-world-generator/

"it's useless unless the game you want to play is finding the hallucinated inconsistencies in the world, and apparently crashing the stock of game companies due to investors thinking we won't need game developers anymore"

https://x.com/shinobi602/status/2017287378805666219

Google Fiber upgrading 1 Gig service to new 3 Gig default

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/28/google-fiber-3-gig/

Blog Post

https://fiber.googleblog.com/2026/01/a-multi-gig-approach-that-puts.html

FULL SENDS ONLY

Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours - Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/custom-machine-kept-man-alive-without-lungs-for-48-hours/

Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artificial-lungs-alive-days-transplant

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-science/2026/01/30/JQ5YSTU3BNG2LHXPIR5OHLZHLY/

X-Ray photo: https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012825_TS_lungs_main.jpg?resize=1030,580