This sounds like it was written by someone who actually knows what they are doing, so I assume that they know better than I; but I am surprised to hear that it is impersonating a system dll; since (in all comparatively recent windows versions) system components are signed. Absolutely tons of fuckery you can do to them and around them; but if dpapi.dll doesn't have a signature that checks out the mechanisms that try to keep OSes up and running on marginal hardware subject to random power loss will likely eventually object and attempt a repair, even if there isn't any more paranoid EDR tooling in place.

Is the on-disk copy of dpapi.dll untouched and only the in-memory instance tampered with?

I just can't believe that It was the guys with their finger on GPU allocations, not just the expendable PC OEM they were trying to throw under the bus, the whole time. Whoever could have guessed?

I wasn't a consumer of those devices, nor do I expect to become a consumer of those devices.

That said, I do take some umbrage at the increases in costs for devices I DO care about, but Amazon isn't the producer of any of those.

I don't find the rpi 5 and equivalents to be particularly attractive at current price points. I have a few around that do things like my media server, pihole, Homeassistant, etc and that's pretty much it. For only a little bit more, you can get a decently configured AMD Ryzen sff box and call it a day.

Not ultra-portable, but more useful for things that I need to get done.

The available information isn't terribly specific; but on the surface it doesn't sound any deeper into application internals than it already does.

You can certainly go deeper into etw trace hell; but Task Manager knows how much CPU time you are eating, your memory consumption metrics, your network traffic, and has a (currently less granular) look at your consumption of GPU time. It also having a view of consumed NPU time seems totally analogous for a new flavor of coprocessor. Only one that might involve gory poking at the application(though I'd assume would be more logically pulled from the GPU driver) would be distinguishing "GPU Neural Engine" from GPU utilization generally.

Go fuck yourselves.

Entry for players, that is. If they can get a console into some shmoe's hands at a lower price point and then continue to gouge that mark on game subscription prices over time, that's what they're after.

Nothing to see here. Business as usual.

We took our family to Orlando to both Disneyworld and Universal Studios. It was extremely crowded, very expensive, and if you wanted to get in more than a couple of major attraction rides, you pretty much HAD to purchase the "jump the line" pass for another few hundred bucks per ticket holder. We took our elementary school aged kids and it was $4-5k for a few days for park tickets and food (not including travel and hotel expenses). Everything was egregiously expensive and the waiting around, even with the "cut the line" passes, were still fairly long.

I can't imagine how most people out there can afford the expense once you layer in the travel costs. I can only assume that many people are borrowing money to make it work. When we got home the kids said they had fun, but they didn't want to return. Whew....

Screen sharing is turned off by default. At least it is on the M5 Macbook air that I just bought my wife (she's a Mac addict....don't ask...hehe). I just checked.

That's complete bullshit. I have been using it as my daily driver for years as have a number of people I know who aren't particularly technical. Unless your jam is just computer gaming or you have an application that you MUST use that only runs on Windows, Linux will do pretty much anything Windows can without the licensing merry-go-round.

Or just ask for the hardware to be delivered without ANY operating system and spend the 5 minutes to pop in a USB thumb drive and install whatever you'd like.

Or buy a Mac.

Or build your own system from scratch.

Or.....

There's plenty of choices out there.

I agree. The person had better get explicit permission from everyone present and be prepared to remove the wearable or prepare for the consequences.

and then the noise blows over and they'll allow the free-for-all to continue again. Nothing good is going to come from having pervasive surveillance of people just going about their daily lives in their car. They've taken an inch, then a foot....the mile isn't far off. Y'all metric using folks can convert to your favourite units.

Jetson Orin is roughly 4 year old tech that's EOL now. I'm not sure how newsworthy this is. It's a graphics chip for mobile applications, not really an AI chip.

Nothing to see here....

This is at least the 2nd time they've done a retreat in China.

There has never been a level playing field there for foreign companies.