Like Google, Amazon has a list of products the tech company discontinued. Is one of your favorites on the list? What Apple announced this past "Mac Week." What GitHub announced at its GitHub Universe 2024 event. And how Apple's Genmoji generator will operate when it's released with the future iOS 18.2 release.

• Mikah Sargent talks about a great article from The Verge highlighting a handful of Amazon Echo products that the tech company has discontinued over the years.
• Dan Moren of SixColors joins the show again to discuss the new M4 Mac products that the company announced this past week.
• Martin Woodward, VP of DevRel for GitHub stops by to talk about some of the new things that GitHub announced at its GibHub Universe 2024 event, including the new GitHub Spark.
• And Mikah talks about Apple's Genmoji service that is slated to come in iOS 18.2 and some of the things you can and cannot do with it.

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Dan Moren and Martin Woodward

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Victor Pavy asks a very simple question: What is Scott's favorite TV wall mount? Of course, Scott has some recommendations, including the one he recently put in his own media room.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Unleash the full potential of macOS's Preview app as Mikah explores how to combine, rearrange, and edit PDFs without needing third-party tools. From duplicating files to protect originals, deleting unnecessary pages, and mastering the Contact Sheet view for seamless page reordering, this episode is packed with practical tips. Mikah also demonstrates merging PDFs, helping you compile crucial information into a single document with just a few clicks. Perfect for anyone looking to streamline their workflow with Preview's often-overlooked PDF management features.

Combine PDFs in Preview on Mac - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/combine-pdfs-prvw43696/11.0/mac/15.0.1

Add, delete, or move PDF pages in Preview on Mac - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/add-delete-or-move-pdf-pages-prvw11793/11.0/mac/15.0

Host: Mikah Sargent

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The Windows 11 Out of Box Experience (OOBE) is part of Windows 11 Setup, and it's the first thing you will see when you purchase a new Windows 11-based PC and turn it on for the first time. The Windows 11 OOBE is similar to that from Windows 10, but it has been visually refreshed to match the Windows 11 look and feel. And it has been updated several times since the initial release of Windows 11. What you see here will vary a bit from PC to PC, but here's a quick rundown of the most common interfaces.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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In this episode, Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore Apple's powerful iWork suite of productivity apps. Learn why these free alternatives to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace deserve your attention. The hosts break down the advanced features of Pages for document creation, Numbers for spreadsheets and data visualization, and Keynote for stunning presentations.

• Feedback: Help for setting up an iPad and Apple ID for a 90-year-old parent
• Shortcuts Corner: Solutions for automatically reconnecting HomePods to a Mac after sleep using Keyboard Maestro

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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• Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
• Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
• Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
• Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
• Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
• Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
• Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
• McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
• RIP Foursquare
• Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
• WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
• LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
• Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
• Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
• Masnick on Elon Musk Events
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
• The Age of Cage
• Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Enjoy Leo's many hats in this fun and silly edition of Windows Weekly. Happy Halloween!

Windows 11

• Yes, Windows 11 version 24H2 got its preview update for October too, a few days late as expected
• 24H2 was a surprisingly big platform shift - no enablement updates - faster updates going forward
• Dev and Beta get new builds, minor changes in each

Microsoft 365/AI/dev

• Teams is... getting weird
• Microsoft 365 apps get Handoff support on Apple devices
• Notion Mail - a light alternatives to Google Workspace and M365?
• GitHub Copilot goes multi-LLM
• Apple Intelligence wave one arrives, mostly to indifference. Wave two in December. EU is getting it in the Spring
• New Macs this week with M4. But the big news? 16 GB of RAM, minimum. Finally.
• The Browser Company can't realize its vision for the future with Arc

Earnings/Corporate

• Microsoft and Google duke it out over Cloud licensing - This one is getting ugly
• Google - $88.3 billion in revenues
• AMD - OK, but dominated by Intel on PCs and NVIDIA in AI/datacenter

Xbox

• More games, more people, more devices, Microsoft says
• Less emphasis on console but what might a next-gen console look like? Arm? Mobile? Third-party hardware makers?
• Cloud Gaming is limited to the most expensive Game Pass tier - that has to change, and what about a standalone tier?
• Mobile app stores are coming - but what about native mobile games?
• Call of Duty Black Ops 6 lands on PC Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Cloud Gaming - Paul puts aside his grudge and gives it a shot
• Microsoft previews new Home experience for Xbox app on Windows

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: It might be time to look at the Raspberry Pi again
• App pick of the week: My God, it's full of web browsers
• RunAs Radio this week: Updating Windows on ARM with Aria Hanson
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Laird of the Fintry Black Label Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Apple proposes 45-day maximum certificate life.
• SEC fines four companies for downplaying their SolarWinds attack severity.
• Google adds 5 new features to Messenger including inappropriate content.
• Does AI-driven local device-side filtering resolve the encryption dilemma forever?
• The very nice looking "Session" messenger leaves Australia for Switzerland.
• Another quick look at the question of the EU's software liability moves.
• Fake North Korean employees WERE found to install backdoor malware.
• How to speed up an SSD without using SpinRite.
• Using ChatGPT to review and suggest improvements in code.
• And Internet governance has been trying to move the Internet to IPv6 for the past 25 years, but the Internet just doesn't want to go. Why not? And will it ever?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-998-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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