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Remember when Steve Jobs suggested holding your iPhone differently to avoid “antennagate”? Here’s the Starfield version of that: “Upgrade your PC.”

Earlier this week, Tom put it extremely mildly: “Starfield [...] will demand the most out of both your CPU and GPU.” I would say the game runs comparatively poorly to many triple-A titles, with little graphically or mechanically awesome on screen to justify the low framerate.

The maker of engorged apps like the Edge browser has a patent application for a giant backpack that basically mimics the functionality of Humane’s tiny little AI clip-on thingie.

You be you, Microsoft.

Because I ... did not. Even now, I’m not 100 percent sure what it is. There’s a website called Bing Maps, okay, yes, but then the app really just wants to tell me about Microsoft Traffic. And now there’s a way to get Bing Maps info in the Microsoft Start app, which has a feature called Commute that is evidently powered by Bing Maps. Microsoft Start, of course, looks remarkably like the Bing app. Which has mapping stuff in it, but isn’t exactly a mapping app.

I don’t get it either. But you can download Microsoft Start with Commute now!

I asked Bing the same question and it told me to buy a USB lighter. This is a true story.

First introduced to Bing.com and the Edge sidebar in July, Bing Chat Enterprise allows companies to use Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot without having to worry about their conversations being used to train its underlying model.

Now Microsoft will let companies access the chatbot in Windows Copilot as well, with the launch of it in preview for “eligible commercial customers in the Dev channel.”

Microsoft has been investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death with an “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message in the latest KB5029351 update. The issues have been affecting some MSI motherboards, and now MSI says “reverting your BIOS to the previous version” is a workaround. Microsoft has paused the update for affected systems, so hopefully MSI can issue a new BIOS update soon.

As part of a new update rolling out starting Thursday, if someone on Outlook invites a Google Calendar user to an event, that Outlook person will actually show up as the event organizer on Google Calendar.

I imagine this will be a very welcome feature for many people.

Starting today, you can access several PC Game Pass titles from Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now, including Deathloop, No Man’s Sky, Grounded, and more. You can view the whole roster of available games from Nvidia’s website.