'Agentic' Windows double-down, Epic Games/Unity collab, Pebble vs Rebble + more!

Duration: 07:49

Timestamps:

0:00 if you heard it your head would explode

0:10 Microsoft explains 'agentic' Windows

1:41 Unreal Engine x Unity's Epic collab

2:41 Pebble, Rebble feud over app store

4:13 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:21 Cloudflare outage

5:06 AMD FSR Redstone, possible GPU price hike

6:04 Google launches Gemini 3

6:38 People entering Russia hit by 24-hour data blackout

7:11 TikTok AI content slider

NEWS SOURCES:

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AGENT UNDER FIRE

Microsoft just revealed how Windows 11 is evolving into an agentic OS

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-just-revealed-how-windows-11-is-evolving-into-an-agentic-os-finally-the-explanation-weve-all-been-waiting-for

Pavan Davuluri’s original tweet

https://x.com/pavandavuluri/status/1987942909635854336

Microsoft’s post

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/experimental-agentic-features-a25ede8a-e4c2-4841-85a8-44839191dfb3

Good Reddit comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ozvxiv/comment/npercu6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

A courageous writer at The Verge spent a week using Copilot how Microsoft wants you to - and says it “makes a computer feel incompetent”

https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/microsoft-windows-copilot-vision-ai-assistant-pc-voice-controls-impressions

But the agent will still be competent enough to install malware!

https://www.webpronews.com/windows-11s-ai-agents-unlocking-autonomy-at-the-cost-of-security/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/new-windows-11-ai-agents-can-work-in-the-background-but-create-new-security-risks/

Quote about malware threat

https://lmg.gg/HTtJS

Classic 3D Maze screensaver from Windows 95 is now fully playable

https://www.techspot.com/news/110291-classic-3d-maze-screensaver-windows-95-now-fully.html

STOP! COLLABORATE AND LISTEN!

Epic and Unity are collaborating to somehow run Unity games inside of Fortnite (Tim Sweeny is calling it an open metaverse)

https://www.theverge.com/report/823233/fortnite-epic-games-unity-creators-developers-tim-sweeney-matt-bromberg

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/unity-epic-teamup-fortnite

https://beebom.com/fortnite-is-opening-its-doors-to-unity-games-after-epic-deal/

Epic release:

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/unity-and-epic-games-together-advance-the-open-interoperable-future-for-video-gaming

Unity release:

https://unity.com/news/unity-and-epic-games-together-advance-open-interoperable-future-video-gaming

NOT THE ONLY PEBBLE ON THE BEACH

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky clashes with Rebble, the community that kept the Pebble Appstore alive

NOTE - this will be a WAN topic, and this link is only the entry point to a bit of a rabbit hole that someone will have to go down

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/f8RnVV2QTn

Rebble devices keeps stealing our work: this is where it is explained from the Rebble side

https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html

PebbleOS website:

https://pebbleos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Blog post response from Eric

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward

Bluesky link to the “allegedly scraped” watch faces

https://bsky.app/profile/ericmigi.com/post/3m5rhwqhtl22c

Blog posts from both groups covering the launch of their appstore

https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore

(link to highlight on the Rebble post describing the back end issue) https://lmg.gg/mSBrv

Message where they agreed on open collaboration, above it is the agreement on paper

https://lmg.gg/C6aYb

“The data behind the Pebble App Store is 100% Rebble”

https://lmg.gg/adLcB

His response to that statement: https://lmg.gg/75KWd

QUICK BITS

FLARE OUT

Cloudflare down: ‘Fix’ update issued after X, ChatGPT and more websites suffer mass outage

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cloudflare-chatgpt-x-internet-services-9.6982721

Cloudflare’s explanation blog

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

The third major internet outage in a month is just another sign that websites need a backup plan

https://www.theverge.com/news/823562/cloudflare-outage-wake-up-call-websites

FS…ARE PRICES GOING UP?!

AMD announces FSR Redstone premiere on December 10 — confirms technology will be limited to the RX 9000 series

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-announces-fsr-redstone-premiere-on-december-10-confirms-technology-will-be-limited-to-the-rx-9000-series

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/amd-finally-gives-its-ai-enhanced-fsr-redstone-upscaling-tech-a-december-10-launch-date/

Jack Huynh tweet

https://x.com/JackMHuynh/status/1990794384833720504

Marvel style trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWzvKxkKVc&t=2s

AMD Reportedly Planning GPU Price Increase as Memory Costs Spike

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rumored-to-raise-gpu-prices-just-as-radeon-rx-9070-xt-finally-reaches-msrp

Videocardz source is a post on Chinese site Board Channels

https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2025/11/AMD-GPU-Price-Increase-Board-Channels-850x365.png

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM

Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet

https://www.theverge.com/news/822977/gemini-3-google-ai-model-launch

Google’s Gemini 3 intro

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-collection/

Google calls it a new era of intelligence

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/#note-from-ceo

Google’s benchmark

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/gemini_3_table_final_HLE_Tools_on.gif

PEACE, LAND, BREAD, BUT NO DATA!

Russia is cutting mobile data for travelers for up to 24 hours to fight drone attacks

https://www.techspot.com/news/110276-russia-blocks-mobile-data-returning-travelers-combat-drone.html

https://www.pcmag.com/news/russia-hits-people-entering-with-24-hour-internet-blackout-for-safety

https://therecord.media/russia-24-hour-traveler-mobile-internet-blackouts-ukraine-drones

THE CLOCK TIKTOKS ON AI SLOP

TikTok will let users tone down the amount of AI content in their feed

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-will-let-users-tone-down-the-amount-of-ai-content-in-their-feed-050100596.html

TikTok blog