it's Wednesday November 1st 2023 and you're listening to midweek news episode 49 let's get into it first up we've got fast fetch fast fetch is similar to Neo fetch it's written in C and it's an open- Source tool that claims to be you guessed it faster one great feature of fast fetch is that you can replace the asy OS logo with a sixel if you are using a terminal that supports sixel it's also crossplatform and runs under Linux Android Mac OS and windows Linux mint 21.3 to include cinnamon 6.0 and experimental whand support Linux Mint 21.3 is due on Christmas of this year Microsoft shocks Linux community and we'll be attending the Ubuntu Summit 2023 it will be interesting to see what coverage comes out of this show which runs from November 3rd through the 5th chat GPT Plus members can upload and analyze files love it or hate it chat GPT is going to be around for a while the new beta for paid members allows for the upload and Analysis of files this should make it a lot more interesting while leading to some new concerns as well the Apple scary Fest event took place on October 30th the event launched and M3 M3 Pro and M3 max line of chips a refreshed iMac 24 in with M3 MacBook Pro is now available in the space black color and the 14 and 16in MacBook Pros are now available with M3 M3 Pro and M3 Max you can configure up to 128 gigs of unified memory and and get up to 22 hours of battery life Apple scary Fest event was shot entirely on iPhone 15 Max one thing I can say for apple is they believe in their endtoend Vision this is the first Apple event to be entirely recorded using iPhone Microsoft adds native support for raar 7zip and tar archive file formats we knew it was coming and I believe I had mentioned it in a previous midweek news episode the full list of file types that Windows 11 now supports is found by following the link it's nice to know that you no longer have to use a third-party app to handle some of these Canada bands WeChat and kasperski apps on government devices Canada's Chief Information officer argues that 10-cent owned WeChat and moscow-based kasperski quote present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security unquote Linux kernel 6.6 has been officially released some new features include changing charger mode middle fan egpu settings for Asus devices support for backlight control and more Lenovo Idea pad devices and and support for new melanox powered devices the full list of features and enhancements can be found in the article Mozilla is committed to the Firefox dub package for Debian based distributions Mozilla is doubling down on offering a Deb package for Firefox currently available for the nightly releases after enabling a repository for auntu users there are advantages to using a Firefox Deb over the default snap package such as better performance due to compiler optimizations hardened binaries with all security Flags enabled and of course access to the latest Firefox releases as fast as possible VLC 3.20 fixes potential security issue and adds av1 Hardware decoder support currently only available as a source tarball you may have to wait a few days for your distribution to have a package available Ubuntu 24.4 LTS has a name and a release schedule code named Noble numbat the next Ubuntu LTS release is scheduled to come out on April 25th The Flipper zero can now spam Android and Windows users with Bluetooth alerts a new firmware for the flipper zero adds this functionality after the functionality was previously added to Target iOS devices the author of the article was kind enough to give instructions on how to avoid this type of attack and last but not least a group of nine PC makers could launch Windows PCS with Qualcomm Snapdragon xelite chips while there are no guarantees that these PCS will be competitive against their AMD D and Intel counterparts let alone the new M3 chips from Apple these manufacturers are willing to try Acer Asus Dell HP honor Lenovo Microsoft Samsung and xiaomi you may notice a few manufacturers on this list that don't generally sell in North America time will tell if this changes these chips will be manufactured using a 4 nanometer process node whereas the newly announced M3 series from Apple will be on 3 nanometer and that my friends is going to wrap up another midweek news if you have not done so already please like And subscribe thank you once again for watching and I'll see you in the next video have a great day