Laser TV, pig butchering, bird flu, pig kidney, AI tools, foldable iPad, HDMI 2.2, cellular Starlink, Audi Q6 E-Tron and secret societies. It has been a really busy week for me as I was setting up my new computer. There have definitely been a few bumps in the road getting all my software working. The great news is that this post is the first one created entirely on the new machine. I still have work to do to get it ready to do everything I need and the holiday season will give me the time to do that so I can start 2025 at full speed! Check out all of this week’s news in the headlines below.

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• Intel Arc B580 review: A $249 RTX 4060 killer, one-and-a-half years later
• Samsung’s premium Laser TV becomes world’s first certified 8K projector
• Nvidia Introduces Device Aimed at Small Companies, Hobbyists for AI Use
• LG’s transparent OLED T television can be yours for the low low price of $60,000

• Russia Attacks Ukraine With Malware Using Other Hackers’ Backdoors
• Update Now: Windows Zero-Day Exploited, Could Give Hackers System Privileges
• US: These 14 North Koreans Posed as Remote IT Workers, Stole $88 Million
• 30,000 Android Devices Found Preinstalled With Malware In Germany
• Police Shut Down Rydox Site, Which Sold to Cybercriminals Since 2016
• ‘EagleMsgSpy’ Android Spyware Linked to Chinese Police
• FTC: Beware Job Offers That Ask You to Perform Game-Like Tasks
• Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials
• Clop Ransomware Gang Tied to Zero-Day Attacks on Cleo File-Transfer Services
• Ransomware Attack on Texas Health Centers Exposes 1.4M+ People
• Interpol: ‘Pig Butchering’ Term Shames Scam Victims, Should Be Retired
• TP-Link routers are being investigated by several US authorities

• Sleep Isn’t Cheap, but You Don’t Have to Break the Bank
• Bird flu jumps from birds to human in Louisiana; patient hospitalized
• The Power of Vitamin B12: Benefits, Deficiency and More Explained
• A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis
• First baby conceived via breakthrough fertility tech born

• Microsoft Reverses Course, Allows Installing Windows 11 on Unsupported Hardware
• Microsoft Tests File Sharing Between iPhones and Windows PCs
• Back where it started: “Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years
• Move Over Siri and Alexa, AI Agents Are the Digital Assistants We’ve Wanted
• I’m an AI tools expert, and these are the only two I pay for
• I Tried AI to See How I’ll Age. It Wasn’t as Bad as I Expected
• 7 ways to write better ChatGPT prompts – and get the results you want faster
• The most popular AI tools of 2024 (and what that even means)

• Ouch: YouTube TV Gets Another $10-Per-Month Price Increase
• GPU Sales Drop As Gamers Await New Hardware
• Here’s the Android XR headset that Google and Samsung are releasing in 2025 – and the software that powers it
• Trump Tariffs Could Raise the PlayStation 5 Pro Price by 40%. I Analyzed Four Ways to Finance It Now
• ’30 Years Was a Good Run’: Chelsea Manning on the End of the Web as We Know It
• Apple’s foldable iPad could be like ‘two iPad Pros side-by-side’
• The $20-Trillion Tunnel That Could Link New York and London
• HDMI 2.2 could make its debut at CES next month
• Logging Off: The Tech That Died in 2024
• Next Version of HDMI to Use New, Higher-Capacity Cable
• After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives
• Forget an iPhone Flip. I Want a Foldable iPad Instead
• Is Apple Intelligence already doomed to irrelevance?

• AT&T Messages Shutdown: Why It’s Happening and How to Switch
• T-Mobile Invites Users to Beta-Test Cellular Starlink Service
• It’s Time to Bring 65W (or Higher) Charging Speeds to All Premium Phones
• AT&T Hits Texas Man With $6,000 Bill for Using 3GB of Data
• Survey: Apple Intelligence, Galaxy AI Add ‘Little to No Value’ for Smartphone Owners

• FBI: Don’t Shoot at Suspected Drones Because They Could Be Planes
• Trump to block the government and military from buying EVs
• The Audi Q6 E-Tron is an OLED dream machine

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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• 9 People Who Shaped Christmas
• What Is the Longest Song Ever Recorded?
• The Real Stories Behind 8 Secret Societies
• 10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know You Could Bring Through TSA Checkpoints
• Dogs Can Smell Our Stress—And It’s Contagious
• Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl’s Abandoned City
• The Story of the Aurochs Is More Complicated Than We Thought

If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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