Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #181 (11/05/2026)

Tech

• Apps Can Now Try to Stop You From Canceling Subscriptions
• The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control - Engadget
• Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. - Ars Technica
• Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution - Engadget
• Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
• Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” - Ars Technica
• Google says students in schools that ban AI won’t have access to Search - Engadget
• Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’
• OpenAI Billionaire: PCs are ‘terrible’ when data centers need more memory
  • Sam Altman Pulls Spectacular 180 After Unpopular Comments About RAM: ‘It Is F*cking Annoying’
• Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games

Gaming

• One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It’s Taking Action - GameSpot
• Steam Is Tightening Its Game Submission Rules As AI Slop Floods The Store
• Nexus Mods gets stricter on AI for mods but no outright ban | GamingOnLinux
• Arkane union workers accuse Microsoft of sabotaging the studio
• Nintendo’s main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business

Content Creation

• Elgato Makes Its Excellent Teleprompter Software Free in Version 2.0 | Digital Foundry

Hardware/Software Updates

• Fedora 45 arrives to continue advancing the Linux desktop | GamingOnLinux

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