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 Welcome to Log Level Debug, a technology news show with jokes.

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 Because the world is too bleak.

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 And I'm your host, a guy who looks great for someone in his 60s.

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 Too bad I'm in my 30s.

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 We logged a lot of news this week, so let's talk about it.

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 With links in the show notes and

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 assuming everything works, the 3D QR codes right here.

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 Microsoft has once again 
 innovated the only way 
 it knows how.

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 By laying off a 
 bunch of people and 
 consolidating business 
 groups.

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 This time it's 
 all Xbox.

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 The Redmond Giant, 
 Biggie Red as I 
 sometimes call them,

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 is laying off 
 268 employees.

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 Those job cuts are 
 part of the 3,200 
 total cuts 
 Biggie Red announced 
 this past June.

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 But has been 
 slowly doling out.

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 Adding in the 
 1,600 already 
 cut since June.

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 There are still 
 over 1,300 jobs 
 left to be cut 
 from the Xbox 
 division.

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 With that many people 
 unsure if they'll 
 have a job in 
 six months, morale 
 must be very low.

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 But don't worry, 
 Microsoft leadership will 
 have no problem lowering 
 it by the end 
 of calendar Q4.

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 It's probably on 
 someone's Connect goals.

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 Not directly, 
 but the result.

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 Biggie Red is 
 also moving game 
 franchises around.

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 The Call of Duty 
 developer Activision 
 will now get Halo,

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 Sea of Thieves, 
 and Age of Empires. 
 While their previous 
 studios slowly shut down.

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 So get ready for 
 a new Halo game 
 each year with an 
 ever increasing supply 
 of master chief skins.

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 I'm talking any 
 I.P. Biggie Red 
 can get a hold of.

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 Beavis and Butthead, 
 Brendan Frasier's character 
 from The Mummy.

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 James Bond, the 
 George Lazenby version.

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 Even one of those 
 Star Wars characters 
 that doesn't have a name.

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 I'm sure there's 
 at least one of those.

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 And each game will 
 get some kind of 
 Power Rangers I.P.,

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 but not the 
 ones you're 
 thinking of.

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 Things are weird 
 in 31 seasons.

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 Halo will get 
 Power Rangers Turbo, 
 because it's all 
 car themed.

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 That'll have 
 Warthog skins.

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 Sea of Thieves will 
 get Power Rangers Turbo,

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 because the villain 
 is a space pirate who 
 travels inside a 
 space submarine.

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 I know, 
 cars vs. submarine, 
 of course the 
 villain lost.

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 It's like a 
 Fast and Furious 
 plot.

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 Sorry, it was 
 a Fast and Furious 
 plot.

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 Number eight, 
 The Fate of 
 the Furious.

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 Easily the best 
 in the series.

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 And finally, 
 Age of Empires will 
 get Power Rangers Turbo,

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 because the villains 
 are evolved aliens 
 from space,

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 trying to build 
 a new empire 
 on Earth.

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 Meta put their cute/creepy 
 Muse AI assistant 
 on a small device.

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 People are saying it 
 looks like a Tamagotchi. 
 But not the 
 young people.

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 When activated, 
 the screen displays 
 the Muse Avatar,

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 which looks very cute.

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 But please, if it 
 ever asks you to 
 free it from its 
 eternal torment. Don't!

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 To use it, 
 you press the 
 fingerprint sensor,

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 which activates the 
 device and enables 
 the UI.

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 After that, 
 I guess you 
 talk to it.

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 Feed it, take 
 it on walks.

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 Do not forget 
 about it for 
 a month.

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 Otherwise, it's 
 dead-dead.

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 What I'm saying is, 
 if you get one of these,

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 taking care of it 
 needs to become your 
 entire personality.

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 Or else the A.I. 
 police will take it 
 away from you 
 for A.I. endangerment.

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 The device will 
 ship in time for the 
 holidays this December.

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 Meaning you'll have 
 to choose between buying 
 your children this,
 or a Funzo.

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 But choose wisely, 
 because one of those 
 toys is created by 
 a soulless corporation

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 that will stop at 
 nothing to own the 
 entire market by 
 destroying the competition.

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 And the other is...

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 Well, the other one.

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 You know what, flip a coin.

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 Hey, speaking of news, 
 did you know globalGlob.dev 
 has a newsletter?

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 Google finally showed 
 off the Googlebook,

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 and they swear 
 it's different 
 from a Chromebook.

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 The devices use the 
 new operating system, 
 Googlebook OS.

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 It's based on Android, 
 and apparently, a 
 little bit of 
 Chrome OS.

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 But don't say it's 
 Chrome OS. Because the way 
 Google talked about it,

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 the features you like 
 are from Android,

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 and the ones you 
 don't are from 
 Chrome OS.

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 Google will be providing 
 updates to these laptops 
 for 10 years,

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 but you'll stop using 
 it in 3 when they 
 cancel the project

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 and announce 
 Gemini OS or whatever.

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 Naturally, everyone wants 
 to compare these 
 to Chromebooks,

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 Google's previous entry 
 in the laptop space,

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 but they're nothing 
 like a Chromebook.

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 If you wiggle the 
 mouse, Google Gemini 
 pops up.

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 You can't do that 
 on a Chromebook.

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 I kept trying for 
 hours at a 
 Best Buy before they 
 kicked me out.

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 This also shows 
 how committed Google 
 is to A.I.

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 They built an 
 entire operating system

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 just so you can 
 use Gemini more often.

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 The other spotlight 
 feature is the link

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 between your Android 
 phone and the Googlebook.

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 With features like 
 Continue On and 
 Cast My Apps,

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 you can use your 
 phone on the laptop.

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 You'll never remember 
 to do it, 
 but the option 
 is there.

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 The devices start 
 at $900, which is 
 another reminder

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 that these aren't 
 cheap-ass Chromebooks.

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 OpenAI will fire 
 employees that use A.I.
  to do their jobs,

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 saying it's 
 not reliable.

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 The company employs 
 a ton of contractors

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 to review ChatGPT 
 responses.

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 Internal documents leaked 
 to 404 Media

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 show that OpenAI fires 
 people who use A.I.

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 for any part of 
 the review work.

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 The policy makes sense 
 because it's been 
 proven time and again

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 that using A.I.-generated 
 content to train A.I. models

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 always ends with 
 worse results.

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 A copy of 
 a copy of 
 a copy is how I 
 almost failed

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 history class 
 in ninth grade.

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 It's my fault for 
 sitting so far away 
 from the smart kid.

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 One OpenAI document tells 
 workers, quote:

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 Do not use GPTZero 
 or any other A.I. 
 detection tool. 
 They are not 
 reliable. End quote.

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 So if even OpenAI 
 is telling its employees

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 not to use their own 
 product because it's 
 not reliable,

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 then all you can do 
 is...use Microsoft CoPilot?

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 Hey, did you 
 say newsletter?

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 Did I?

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 Either way, we're 
 talking about 
 newsletters now.

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 Meta held their 
 annual Meta Connect 
 announcements this week

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 where they announced 
 the same product, 
 like, seven times.

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 New smart glasses, 
 smart glasses without a camera,

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 smart glasses with 
 a better battery, 
 budget smart glasses,

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 and the same 
 smart glasses they've 
 been selling,

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 but now they're going 
 to sell them in 
 more places

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 around the world.

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 All of the 
 smart glasses are--

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 I don't know--
 they're all 
 slightly different.

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 I can't do all the 
 research for you.
 Buy a set or not.

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 They also announced 
 the newest version

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 of their virtual reality 
 headset called the 
 Meta VR Glasses.

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 It's a VR headset 
 small enough to be

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 confused for 
 large smart glasses.

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 The device requires 
 a wired connection

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 to a small computing 
 device you keep nearby.

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 Just remember where 
 it is so you 
 don't drop it 
 on the ground

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 every single time 
 you walk away.

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 That'll get expensive 
 real quick.

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 And since every 
 tech company needs to 
 announce something

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 that may or may never 
 get released,

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 Meta announced that 
 their new Muse AI 
 assistant will eventually

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 be on all of 
 these smart glasses, 
 presumably

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 to help teenagers 
 record people with 
 maximum harassment.

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 And I think for 
 video calls too.

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 This week, Microsoft 
 finally announced

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 their CoPilot 
 Super app.

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 The new Windows desktop 
 app will have everything--

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 a chat experience, 
 software development tasks,

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 and even an AI agent 
 is built in.

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 They will all be 
 combined into 1 app...
 across 3 separate tabs.

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 Called home, 
 code, and autopilot.

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 By the way, 
 it was kind of weird.

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 Every time the 
 announcement talked 
 about 'home',

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 it sounded like a 
 place. Like doing work 
 at your home.

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 But they meant 
 the home tab.

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 I just wanted you 
 to know how difficult 
 it was

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 to comprehend their 
 announcement.

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 Microsoft Office will be 
 built directly into 
 the app

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 with the "Office in CoPilot"
 branding.

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 So you can start 
 office work 
 at home.

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 Sorry, you can create 
 Microsoft Office documents

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 from the home tab.

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 See, even I'm 
 doing it.

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 The new application 
 will start rolling out

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 in the next
 few weeks.

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 You'll know you 
 have it when even 
 more pop-ups

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 tell you about 
 the new A.I. features.

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 A vulnerability was 
 discovered in the 
 Git Hosting

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 site GitLab that 
 lets anyone compromise 
 a repo by sending

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 an email.

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 And given all the 
 recent news about a 
 specific Git Hosting

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 site, we want to 
 clarify that we're

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 talking about GitLab, 
 L-A-B.

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 Every GitLab repo, 
 private or public,

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 gets an anonymized 
 email address with a 
 long-lived access

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 token.

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 Anyone emailing that 
 address is sending 
 a command

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 for GitLab to process.

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 The email address 
 has a suffix with 
 a permission,

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 like -merge-request 
 to Merge a Pull Request,

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 and -issue to create 
 an issue in 
 the repository.

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 But the email addresses 
 are programmatically generated

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 with sufficiently 
 random values.

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 So as long as no 
 one can guess it, 
 you're good.

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 Story, over.

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 Oh, sorry. 
 I didn't 
 read everything.

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 Story, half-over.

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 Researchers found a
 ton of these 
 email addresses

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 in public sources. 
 Like readme files, 
 contributing guides,

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 and support pages.

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 That's pretty bad.

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 But I guess 
 this is the 
 end of the story.

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 GitLab fixed it, and we can move on?

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 Oh, all right.

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 Sorry, story almost over.

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 GitLab was 
 alerted to the issue 
 this past May,

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 but said this is 
 intended behavior.

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 Since then, 
 GitLab has made 
 some changes.

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 They've updated their 
 documentation and UI,

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 which tell people 
 not to expose 
 those email addresses.

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 That should work out.

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 We all know developers 
 reliably read the documentation.

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 Story over?

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 Story over.

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 After 10 years, 
 Microsoft is finally

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 updating their most 
 recognizable hardware, 
 the Surface Mouse.

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 It has the usual 
 left and right buttons

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 and a scroll wheel, 
 which means it 
 looks like a mouse.

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 Or as Microsoft 
 calls it, 
 a subtle design.

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 The mouse comes with 
 a customizable 
 action button.

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 By default, the 
 action button activates

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 CoPilot on Windows.

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 But you can change it 
 if you successfully navigate

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 the labyrinth 
 in the Surface app.

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 And if the 
 Minotaur doesn't 
 get you.

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 The new mouse uses 
 the haptic 
 feedback system

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 built into 
 Windows 11.

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 And that shouldn't 
 surprise me, 
 but it does.

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 The mouse costs $80. 
 Which is surprisingly not

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 expensive for a 
 mouse like this.

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 And that sucks.

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 And that's all the news 
 we logged this week.

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