Bookmarks | Traditional Outlook will get an official ‘loss of life date’

These are the articles, movies and extra that caught the eye of TechCentral’s editorial workforce previously 24 hours.

• Traditional Outlook will get an official ‘loss of life date’ and customers are urged to modify: Traditional Outlook formally will get the boot on 31 December 2024, with customers nudged – then shoved – in the direction of Microsoft’s shiny new Outlook app. Companies get some respiratory room, however by April 2026, resistance is futile. Lacking options? Microsoft guarantees it’ll add them finally. When you’re clinging to basic Outlook, benefit from the trip whereas it lasts. Learn extra in PCWorld. DM
• Bluesky reveals early take a look at Bluesky+, its subscription service: Bluesky has teased its Bluesky+ subscription service with a mock-up that includes perks like customized icons, publish analytics and video upgrades for US$8/month or $72/12 months. However don’t seize your pockets but – it’s only a tough draft. Devs guarantee us it gained’t flip into an X clone with pay-for-priority nonsense. Learn extra on Mashable. DM
• Amazon is a automobile dealership now: Amazon is now promoting vehicles, beginning with Hyundai in 48 US cities. You may browse fashions, get trade-in quotes and schedule pickup – all with out enduring dealership web sites that look straight out of 2005. Financing nonetheless runs via sellers, nonetheless. Elantras together with your rest room paper, anybody? Learn extra on Gizmodo. DM
• iPhone 15 was used to shoot main sequel 28 Years Later, and the trailer is spectacular: Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, a sequel to the cult basic 28 Days Later, was shot solely on the iPhone 15 Professional Max. Regardless of the zombie apocalypse vibe, the trailer doesn’t scream “shot on a cellphone” – it simply appears to be like like a correct blockbuster. Apple’s advertising workforce is probably going foaming on the mouth over this one. Learn extra on 9to5Mac. DM
• 30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down within the silicon: Famous {hardware} historian and “reverse engineer” Ken Shirriff not too long ago discovered the precise transistors within the unique Intel Pentium that brought about the “FDIV bug”, resulting in a US$475-million recall in 1994. Extra on Tom’s {Hardware}. TS
• Amazon’s Warhammer 40K challenge goes forward, Henry Cavill nonetheless on board: It’s official: Henry Cavill is lastly going to get to make the Warhammer 40 000 TV present of his goals. It’s taken a bewildering two years of negotiations, however Warhammer homeowners Video games Workshop has introduced in the present day that every one the Is have been dotted and Tyranids crossed, that means Amazon can get began with its diversifications. Extra on Kotaku. TS
• The AI researchers pushing computer systems to launch nightmare eventualities: Belief a gaggle of scientists to, as a substitute of basking in fear-induced hypothesis in regards to the risks AI would possibly deliver to humanity, construct AI fashions that push the expertise to its limits to measure simply how harmful it could possibly be. That is both nice science or the plot to a horror film that doesn’t finish effectively for people. Learn extra in The Wall Avenue Journal (exhausting paywall). NN 

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