Agam's Tech Tricks

OpenAI has a new safety team, however, it’s run by Sam Altman OpenAI is forming a new "Safety and Security Committee", led by CEO Sam Altman, along with board members Adam D’Angelo and Nicole Seligman. The committee will make recommendations on "critical safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations" For its first task, the new team will "evaluate and further develop OpenAI’s processes and safeguards." It will then present its findings to OpenAI’s board, which all three team leaders have a seat on. The board will then decide how to implement the safety team’s recommendations. Along with the new safety board, OpenAI announced that it’s testing a new AI model, but it didn’t confirm whether it’s GPT-5. 🔗 TheVerge 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers YouTube videos are suddenly skipping straight to the end of the video. Even if the video is just replayed, it skips straight to the end almost immediately. It’s a strange phenomenon and one that only appears to be happening for users with an adblocker installed. Also, if you try to skip to a certain part of the video, it just endlessly loads in some cases. Many believe that this is an intentional move on YouTube’s part to discourage the use of adblockers. Note: This has been fixed on uBlock Origin. 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Google previews upcoming ChromeOS features: Where was I?: This groups together what you were previously looking at on your Chromebook. A new overview screen shows “what you had open across your windows, tabs and apps.” Help Me: It can be activated to summarize a web page or PDF. You can then ask follow-up questions about it in a conversational manner. Focus: It elevates Do Not Disturb by letting you set a countdown and select a YouTube Music playlist or "focus sounds." Live Transcription: There will be a Pixel Recorder-like “Live Transcription” capability for Chromebook Plus, that will be handy when watching something and during video calls. Face and Gesture tracking: It will let you compose and send an email, open and use an app or browse the web, all without using the keyboard or needing to download and manage third-party software. 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

T-Mobile signs a $4.4 billion deal to buy most of US Cellular T-Mobile has agreed to purchase parts of US Cellular in a $4.4 billion deal that includes its wireless customers, stores, and approximately 30% of spectrum assets. US Cellular will retain ownership of its towers and approximately 70% of its spectrum portfolio across several spectrum bands, with T-Mobile entering a long-term arrangement to lease space on more than 2,000 towers. US Cellular customers can choose to stay on their current plan or move to an unlimited T-Mobile plan with no switching costs. 🔗 TheVerge 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Don't want to share your number with the Copilot Bot? Here's how: • Start the @CopilotOfficialBot bot • Click on the "I Accept." button in the terms and condition message • DO NOT click the "Send my mobile number" • Open Contacts on Telegram and select any contact • Open the contact, click the three dots, and click on "Share contact" • Share the contact to @CopilotOfficialBot and you're done! You can now use this bot without sharing your own number :) 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Microsoft has released a Microsoft Copilot Beta bot on Telegram This bot is verified and currently in beta. To use it, you need to send your number linked to yout Telegram account. According to the bot, it requires the number for a quick one-time verification and doesn't store your number. The bot shows message suggestions and quick responses as well. However, it does not support Image Generation yet. 🌐 @CopilotOfficialBot 🔗 Microsoft

Google Play Store begins highlighting apps that let you delete your account Google Play Store has begun surfacing the “Account deletion available” badge in the Data Safety section within the App listings. Since December 2023, Google has been pushing developers to include information about app account deletion in their store listings. Developers can request an extension until May 31, 2024, after which non-compliant apps may face "additional enforcement actions" in the future, such as removal from the Google Play Store. 🔗 AndroidAuthority 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Windows 11 iOT LTSC 2024 has been released to manufacturers! The 2024 edition of Windows 11 LTSC has finally dropped. As always, this version is extremely lightweight and smooth. I've been running it on my PC since yesterday. The experience has been decent, it consumes only 2.9/32gb RAM with 1% CPU usage on idle. An interesting thing to note here is the fact that Paint and Calculator are in their legacy Windows 7 versions. By default, you can make a local account without disconnecting from the internet and as always, Microsoft Store is not installed. Overall, for those who do not like to use mods on their system, this is definitely the choice to go for. 🪟 Download link 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

the old post got deleted by mistake, my bad.

LAVA Mobile's source code and database has been leaked! Someone anonymous has leaked LAVA Mobile's source code and database, which includes: - A device and vendor tree of hammerhead (Nexus 5) - Source code of apps - Framework repositories - LAVA BPMS (which looks like their admin site, and the database includes the details of employees and distributors, some internal excel files, etc.) - and more We do not know who has leaked this, and we will not share this leak to anyone, at all. The images of the folder names have been attached. This really looks like some precious internal data, which should never have been leaked. Looks like LAVA has some really bad privacy measures to protect their data, and the database is not encrypted as well. ℹ️ Credits for sharing this leak to us: @w0lfrm 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks