 Office hours. The best kind of hours. Or are they? Who's knocking at my door? So, let's do a little office-ing, shall we? And this to the stage. A mail from someone. Peter from Brampton, Ontario. Friend of who am I? Can you guess the identity of the person before the final clue is given? Fun times. On this episode of DTNS, why remote work will win? And I think that gets us... Let's just go through here and make sure. 10th year Daily Tech news show Philip Paul Brad Neil. Tristan from Manor. Runs down the open AI. Chatbots developers are making. Where can you find them? And are they any good? Plus, Microsoft wants to make a third-party mobile game store. And why remote work will win? Sarah Lane. Back in May, the US State of Montana enacted SB419. Hey, Zoe. A law that would prevent app stores from offering the TikTok app to customers in the state set to go into effect in January. On Thursday, Judge Donald Malloy granted a request for a preliminary injunction, which will prevent the law from going into effect until a case against it can be heard. Judge ruled the law was too broad and overly affects citizens' rights to free speech out of proportion. The law appears. Agile Times reports that X is continuing to invest in attracting advertisements from small businesses as larger advertisers reportedly withdraw from the platform. Hope is to attract enough volume to make up the difference. FT notes that X will need to build out a more sophisticated self-service platform to increase these kinds of clients. Telegram rolled out new features for channels, including custom emojis and better channel discovery. You can also now repost stories on your own channels and pages and get improved channel stats. Telegram also extended its voice to text transcription feature to free users with a limit of two transactions per week. Valve has released Steam link for the MetaQuest 2, 3 and Pro. You'll need a PC with a wired connection to your router running the game and your headset on a 5 gigahertz network broadcast from the 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi network. If you have all that, you can run VR games on Steam and play them on Steam link on your Quest head. In less fun Steam news, it's dropping support for macOS 10.3. Who's saying my name? Who's saying my name? All right, week after its acquisition of VMware Broadcom, Valve notices indicating plans to lay off more than 2,100 employees on January 26th. Insider reports that sources say Broadcom is also reviewing options for two business units of VMware as well. BioCal, Web at Magic. Good day. At the CCXP Comics and Entertainment Convention in Brazil on Thursday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft is talking to partners about launching an Xbox mobile store. And Spencer implied it's coming soon with the cryptic statement. I don't think this is multiple years away. I think it's sooner. Verge reported earlier this week on court documents that showed Activision Blizzard had plans to launch its own app store on Android. And Microsoft had said in filings that it wanted to acquire it in order to build out mobile gaming. Boba doba doba, bold gaming. The mandate to go back to the office for workers who've gotten used to working from home has flatlined. At least that's what Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University Studies Workplace Trend says. In fact, he declared in a post. Here's some background. As of May 2020, the survey of working arrangements and attitudes noted that 61.5% of paid full workdays from home. Doot, doot, doot. Watch Tom Top 5. We've got a YouTube channel. Top 5 tech support for your family. Last month, OpenAI announced GPTs. Doot, doot, doot. Andy from Montreal. Yes, Brian H777. You won't be working from home if you can't work from home. I put a note in my write-up on this in my sub-stack specifically for you because I knew as soon as you say that somebody's going to go, well, if you can't work from home, that doesn't help. That's a given. When we're talking about work from home situations, we're definitely not talking about security guards and maintenance professionals and stuff like that. Hello, Rogue X Factor. Good. All right. Looking good. Happy Friday. Lucky Jackie. Well, that reminds me. I need to flip my calendar over December and then I need a new calendar because that one's out. All right. Now, I can't show you this screen as I do it but maybe I'll do this while I'm on the office hours because, you know, office hours, I have to whip up the Patreon stuff. I don't know if I'll have time for a hat tour or not but we'll see. December 2023. It is, Daniel. Okay, Adam. I believe you. So I have this text document with all the money. Okay. What do I want to say to people? Good Friday, Michael. Hey, folks. We are in the midst of end of year specials planning. So if you didn't see the Patreon post about the listener show, go find it. We're doing a game show with listeners this year and, of course, we'll also do our predictions show, predictions results show, and the best of. We're also still trying to figure out our CES plans. Got any ideas? I'm going to be there but I'm not sure if we can send anyone else. Should I just record a bunch of interviews? Would you want a video tour of the press events? Let us know. Looking forward to starting a new year and having you along with us. Cheers, Tom. Gadgie camper. Oh, behind the scenes, Daniel. Okay, that makes sense. I'm sorry to hear Trenton is cold. A donation campaign to send one or two or more to CES. Oh, I don't like to do donation campaigns. We're a business. We're not a charity. If you want to help us make more money to send people to CES, then be a patron. Brian, I know you are and you're doing your part. I think the only other thing you can do is convince more people. We might be able to squeeze another person out, though. Maybe donation is just not the right word, right? How about a campaign? Not a donation because donation implies it's like you know, non-profit or something. I don't like that. But I like the idea of a campaign. Let's get somebody to see. Yes, maybe. You know what? You know what? You got the wheels turning there, Brian. Yeah, there's something there. December guest calendar. Number one, Tristan Zutra. AI named this show. Have you all checked out an AI named this show? Yet. December 4th, I as Aktar. Best smartphones of the year. Oh, nothing on this. Okay. December 6th, Scott Johnson. December 7th, Justin Robert Young. December 8th, Mike Johnson. Not the Speaker of the House. CISO at Rivian. Okay. December 11th, Rich Strofalito. On replacing tiny letter. I love that. December 12th, Dr. Nicky. December 13th, Scott Johnson. Or 14th, Justin Robert Young. And December 15th, December 20th, Scott Johnson. 21st, Justin Robert Young. December 22nd, Jason Howell. December 26th. Oh, don't do that. December 26th, I think it's going to be listener co-host show. December 27th, best of 2023. I'm going to check these 27th. Trixen's results from December 29th, last year, I'm going to ask posted in all the places. Hey, did you know we have our best of up? Best of November anyway. Not best of year yet. Too early for that. I am probably going to be at CES for the show, but the show will not entirely be done from CES. Oh, thank you, Adam 12. You're the best. I have to. Oh, you're going to get Molly Woodart for the December digital art giveaway. And a ride, a ride, a ride, a ride. The mass mailing begins. So, paid members, they keep changing how these filters work, which sometimes throws me off. All patrons up to analysts get the same message. Okay, that is not right. Why would I choose a tier and want to send it to people who aren't active payment? I just don't understand why that's even an option. Okay, 3,138 people. I'm kind of used to it now, Daniel, to be honest. I'm glad you appreciate it. That's why I do it. The only thing that's nerve-wracking about it is the idea that I'm going to accidentally show you something that I shouldn't. All right, now it gets easier. Active payment. Analyst. Stop stalking yourself. Stop stalking yourself. That's funny. Okay, and any of you who are analysts, keep an eye on your inbox. I'm about to send 127 messages out to y'all. All right, and now the advisors. Copy and paste. Someday, yeah, I will make this automated. Nice, Kaji Kemper. I know Roger. I am a fan. I haven't watched him yet, and I know Roger was excited to watch him, too. And if you're like, what you're talking about, Kaji Kemper, talking about the new Toho film, Godzilla. You hear what you want to hear, Zoe? Okay. For you people at the master level, 35 of y'all, you're about to get a little message. And finally, the grandmasters. Should we add another tier just to see? What would we call it? What's above grandmaster? 21? The Illuminati? All right, Roger has signed up on the calendar, which means I was not lying to people. That's true, Brian. The only thing above pilots are astronauts who are usually pilots. Not always anymore, but usually. Quite often. Let's say quite often. Adam 12, you're going in the rundown. Okay, that's that part. Astronaut level. Kind of an unsequitur, but I sort of love it. Or should we save it? Should we do pilot level and then save astronaut level? Because we might need another level at some point. I don't know. All right, now I have to do the monthly briefing. What the? Oh, I don't have time for that. I'll do that after the show. All right, now I got to go do our, our actual production meeting. I'll post the monthly briefing this afternoon. Open AI's GP store delayed till next year. Oh boy. All right, I'll see you all later. Bye. Talk to you on the show in an hour.