Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #137 (03/20/2025)
Tech Talk Thursdays · Desk Chair Analysts
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Show Notes
Tech
- End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone coming in future software update - 9to5Mac
- YouTube investigating widespread low quality video playback issues on iOS
- This is one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks ever made against Mac users
- Microsoft's latest Windows update accidentally uninstalled Copilot
- Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over a faulty exterior panel
- Amazon is getting rid of the option for Echo devices to process Alexa voice requests locally
- Roku testing auto-playing video ads before loading home screen
- Plex announces Plex Pass price increase and paywall for remote streaming - 9to5Mac
- The Discord app is getting video ads in June
Gaming
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is joining Xbox's "Stream your own games" library | Eurogamer.net
- Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available
- Top Street Fighter 6 competitor ChrisCCH declines qualification spot for Saudi-owned Esports World Cup due to "the nature in which the event is funded and managed" | VG247
- The free Half-Life 2 RTX demo is now available
- Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
- Game companies will standardize accessibility labels on storefronts and product pages
- Helldivers 2 boss says industry doomed to "unnecessarily brutal" layoffs while "chasing after the battle royales" | Eurogamer.net
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