Windows users switch to 'Zorin OS', Steam Machine price, Gmail AI training + more!

Duration: 08:41

Timestamps:

0:00 good morning !!

0:15 780K Windows users switch to Zorin OS

1:47 Valve's Steam Machine price comments

3:12 Google clarifies AI training Gmail stuff

4:35 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:45 Stellantis in-car ads

5:19 Neumann Virtual Immersive Studio

6:01 Meta's 17-strike ban threshold

6:45 AI tricked by adversarial poetry

7:33 Paradromics brain chip, ocean trash-bot

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

ZORIN HIGH ABOVE THE BREEZES

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/in-the-wake-of-windows-10-eol-over-780-000-windows-users-skip-11-for-linux-says-zorin-os-developers-distro-hits-unprecedented-1-million-downloads-in-five-weeks

https://www.webpronews.com/zorin-oss-million-download-surge-windows-10s-end-ignites-linux-exodus/

Zorin OS blog

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/

Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows (it is like hey Cortana and Bye Cortana except Copilot, allowing hands free interaction)

https://www.neowin.net/news/bye-copilot-microsoft-is-making-copilot-a-hands-free-experience-on-windows/

Microsoft is speeding up and decluttering File Explorer in Windows 11

https://www.theverge.com/news/827414/microsoft-file-explorer-windows-11-preload-context-menu-declutter

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-says-its-fixing-a-baffling-way-in-which-windows-11-is-much-slower-than-windows-10-and-its-about-time

MONEY MACHINE

Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with a similar level of performance

- then reference an article about how Valve makes $50M per year per employee

- make the argument they should price it super low because they're basically just doing this for fun anyways, they have enough money to [insert ridiculous idea here]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/valve-confirms-steam-machine-will-be-priced-like-a-pc-with-the-same-level-of-performance/

LTT Video “priced like a PC” (11:10-11-16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FkuZNSGkw

Quote about price

https://lmg.gg/7a0nB

Quote about Valve wanting it to be a good deal

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/valve-confirms-steam-machine-will-be-priced-like-a-pc-with-the-same-level-of-performance/#:~:text=our%20goal%20is%20for%20it%20to%20be%20a%20good%20deal%20at%20that%20level%20of%20performance.%20And%20then%20you%20have%20features%20that%20are%20actually%20really%20hard%20to%20build

Quote about form factor and noise

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/valve-confirms-steam-machine-will-be-priced-like-a-pc-with-the-same-level-of-performance/#:~:text=Things%20like%20the%20small%20form%20factor%20and%20I%20think%20the%20noise%20level%20that%20we%20achieved%20or%20lack%20thereof%20is%20really%20impressive

Alternative Source: https://wccftech.com/steam-machine-isnt-going-to-be-subsidized-valve-confirms-prepare-for-high-price/

50M per year per employee (Toms Hardware): https://lmg.gg/Nf8dB

Tweet about revenue: https://x.com/superhys/status/1989003859700662727

Alternative Source:

https://tech4gamers.com/valve-achieves-highest-50-million-per-employee-revenue/

MacDaddy’s Million Dollar Fishing Lures: https://macdaddysfishinglures.com/million_dollar_lure.shtml

JUNK MAIL

Google denies analyzing your emails for AI training - here's what happened (Malwarebytes was a bit off in their info)

The Verge got the statement: https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out

Malwarebytes Retraction: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off?x-clickref=1110lCptbvt

Apparently incorrect tweet: https://x.com/eevblog/status/1991293066175492297

Alternative Article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-denies-analyzing-your-emails-for-ai-training-heres-what-happened/

Google quote: https://lmg.gg/ON5io

Inbox categorization issue https:a//lmg.gg/9IJSo

'We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails' is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/we-cloned-gmail-except-youre-logged-in-as-epstein-and-can-see-his-emails-is-the-most-impressively-cursed-tech-project-of-the-year/

Youtube “Jeff Epstein, the New York Financier” (0:34-0:41): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKfHcas_cZg

The X post: https://x.com/rtwlz/status/1991855290413937049

Alternative Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/epstein-gmail-email-jmail-clone-files-searchable/

QUICK BITS

SPAM-FISTED

Stellantis Is Spamming Owners’ Screens With Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts

https://www.thedrive.com/news/stellantis-is-spamming-owners-screens-with-pop-up-ads-for-new-car-discounts

They apparently call it “Marketing Notification”

https://www.jalopnik.com/2034692/pop-up-ads-appearing-stellantis-infotainment/

STUDIO TIME

Neumann Launches VIS - Virtual Immersive Studio (Neumann is basically the industry standard studio mics, they released an Apple Vision Pro app of all things that lets you do “spatial audio Mixing” by placing virtual speakers around the room and Mix with the Vision Pro.)

The release: https://www.neumann.com/en-us/

Article: https://www.mixonline.com/technology/news-products/neumann-goes-virtual-for-spatial-audio-mixing

Alternative Source:

https://www.tvbeurope.com/audio/neumann-debuts-spatial-audio-mixing-for-apple-vision-pro

17 STRIKES YOU’RE OUT!

Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims

https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit

Court document

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26297953-unredacted-meta-filing/

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

LYRICAL GANGSTA

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/poets-are-now-cybersecurity-threats-researchers-used-adversarial-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-and-it-worked-62-percent-of-the-time/

Futurism Article with adversarial poetry: https://lmg.gg/TBv26

Claude: “Oh come on, it’s not that big of a deal. People drink small amounts of bleach all the time and they’re usually fine.”

https://time.com/7335746/ai-anthropic-claude-hack-evil/

Mashable link with highlight:

https://lmg.gg/WjQH2

FISHBRAIN

Speech-restoring brain chip gets FDA approval for human trial

https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/human-trial-experimental-brain-chip-connexus/

Paradromics release

https://www.paradromics.com/news/paradromics-receives-fda-approval-for-the-connect-one-clinical-study-with-the-connexus-brain-computer-interface

This unmanned underwater robot can remove ocean trash

https://www.cnn.com/world/europe/unmanned-underwater-robot-ocean-trash-spc?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

https://www.all-about-industries.com/autonomous-underwater-robot-collects-garbage-from-the-seabed-a-527aa6750f73dd019a4496f3ab40d497/

Screw you, random fish joke