### Issue 1892 - Thursday 20th July, 2023

## In Today's Issue

- Tesla is looking to share Autopilot with other car makers
- EU probably gonna tell Microsoft to stop bundling Teams with Office & Windows
- Framework's Ryzen 7040-series modular & repairable laptops ready for pre-ordering
- Plexamp is now free for everyone, no Plex Pass required
- Cheap EA Sports FC 24, Sennheiser wireless headphones, iPhone 14, iPhone SE 2020, 85" Sony TV, 120W Zyron USB charger, 18.5" portable monitor, 8BitDo Ultimate controller

## The News

### Tesla is looking to share Autopilot with other car makers

Elon let loose in a Tesla earnings call yesterday that they are "in discussions" with another automaker to licence Autopilot to them. He added that "we're not trying to keep this to ourselves", "we're more than happy to license it to others". Telsa has also started building its Dojo supercomputer, using its own Tesla designed and TSMC manufactured SoCs that as a whole will be capable of an exaflop, making it one of the fastest computers in the world. That's good news. On the same day, the NHTSA opened yet another investigation into Autopilot's role in a fatal Model 3 crash and Tesla's board of executives have to pay back US$735m to the company after a court found that they "grossly overpaid themselves" between 2017 and 2020.

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### EU probably gonna tell Microsoft to stop bundling Teams with Office & Windows

Microsoft is copping some heat from the European Commission over its Teams videoconferencing/business chat app. Slack formally complained in 2020 to the European Commission, alleging that forcing Office customers to automatically have Teams installed is illegal under EU law. The EC and Microsoft have been negotiating a deal since, but apparently a sticking point is whether the un-bundling would apply only in the EU or worldwide, so the EC is gonna open a formal investigation. Considering how forcefully Microsoft pushes Teams on not just Office users, but Windows users too, plus the fact it's practically given away with an Office subscription, it's no wonder any competitor is upset about it and the EU reckons its anti-competitive.

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### Framework's Ryzen 7040-series modular & repairable laptops ready for pre-ordering

Framework's new 16" laptop with the latest AMD Ryzen 7040-series CPUs is now available to pre-order from their website. The starting price (without an operating system, SSD, RAM or USB-C charger) of the Ryzen 7 7840HS unit is $2,379, so it's not cheap and to rub salt in the wound, if you order now you won't get it until early 2024. The Verge has a hands-on preview of the Framework Laptop 16 if you wanna learn more. Despite the cost and wait time, if I was in the market for a brand-new non-Mac laptop, this is what I'd get. Love that it's easy to fiddle with myself, I can choose my own SSD & RAM, plus the community they've built around the product is great.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Plexamp is now free for everyone, no Plex Pass required

Plex has made its music streaming app, Plexamp, free. It used to be part of Plex Pass, but now basic functionality is free for all users and a range of fancy features are for Plex Pass subscribers only. You stash your music on a Plex server and it'll stream over the internet or locally to the Plexamp app, which on a smartphone, is top notch. There's even a Raspberry Pi app that'll let you run Plexamp in a web browser. On the Mac though, Plexamp is a bit of a piece of shit as it's clearly just the iOS app ported to Mac and made for tapping, not clicking. The real magic of Plexamp is being able to view all your friend libraries in the one spot.

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## Bargains

- EA Sports FC 24 Standard Edition (PlayStation & Xbox) - $84 from Amazon
- Sennheiser Momentum 3 noise cancelling wireless headphones - $209 from Amazon
- iPhone 14 128GB - $1197 from Amazon
- Refurb iPhone SE (2020) 64GB - $178.62 from Mobile World's eBay store
- Sony 85" X90K BRAVIA XR 4K TV - $2556 from JB Hi-Fi
- Zyron Powastone 120W GaN multi-port USB-C charger - $69.99 from Amazon
- Uperfect 18.5" 1080p 120Hz IPS portable USB-C monitor - $260 from Aliexpress
- 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller with Charging Dock - $76.96 from Amazon

## Image Of The Day

Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes. Mitnick's pursuit, arrest, trial, and sentence along with the associated journalism, books, and films were all controversial. (Juergen Frank/Corbis via Getty Images)

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