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October 08Hands-On Windows 210: DuckDuckGo vs. Helium
Why settle for Chrome or Edge when lesser-known browsers offer real privacy and fresh features? Paul Thurrott breaks down how two underdog choices challenge everything you expect about browsing on Windows.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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20 min
October 08 Home Theater Geeks 552: New Projector Lamp Calibration
Former Home Theater of the Month honoree Jeremy Mills recently replaced the lamp in his Epson Pro Cinema 6050UB projector and wonders if he should get it professionally calibrated. He has a calibration disc and can do some of it himself, but is it worthwhile to hire a professional to really dial it in? Scott Wilkinson gives his thoughts.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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12 min
October 07Intelligent Machines 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers
From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever.
AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg

Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999

Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played

They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue

AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

Google announces SynthID Detector

Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."

Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.

How A.I. Can Boost Democracy

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Normal Tools

Gina's Make Great Software

Paul Theroux: True North

Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Spencer Thompson

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3 hr 15 min
October 07Windows Weekly 1004: Fat-Washed
Microsoft and NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops are official, with preorders open and shipping October 16. Prices run from $2,599 (24GB) to $5,899 (128GB, already sold out on Surface). Paul and Leo cover who needs that much RAM, what "hybrid intelligence" means, and why Paul's new Googlebook disappointed him.
Windows
RTX Spark laptops: from $2,599 (24GB), $3,700 (32GB), $5,899 (128GB). Ships Oct 16

Partners: Microsoft, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI. Paul reviews the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 first

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: $6,000+

"Hybrid intelligence": local AI first, cloud when needed

Windows Search gets inline AI actions in Insider builds

Cloud Rebuild adds better remove and sanitize options

Windows app adds Remote PC connections (preview)

Intel Wildcat Lake: Paul's test laptop was slow even with 16GB

Googlebook first look: Lenovo Googlebook 15 (~$1,100) is missing basics an iPad has

Microsoft has tried to kill Windows many times, including the leaked Project Aion
AI/Dev
Microsoft AI ships new voice and transcription models

Gemini 4 Argon is announced, but limited to cybersecurity partners

Google Docs and Drive add native Markdown

C# Dev Kit 11 arrives with .NET 11
Xbox and Gaming
Rockstar corrects reports of exclusive Xbox GTA VI streaming. Launch is Nov 19

Xbox Elite Series 3 controller leaks again, with a built-in screen

October Game Pass: Battlefield 6 and more

Sony brings QSSR AI upscaling to the standard PS5

Google Playground lets you vibe-code games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Desktop98.com, a Windows 98 simulator in your browser

App pick: Gears of War: E-Day (Game Pass Ultimate and PC)

Brown liquor pick: 1792 Small Batch bourbon

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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2 hr 30 min
October 06Security Now 1099: An Alien Mind
As AI becomes startlingly capable, top minds at OpenAI admit they can't always control what their own creations do—or even fully understand how they think. This episode dives into the real-world tension between rapid progress and the growing challenge of keeping AI truly aligned.
GLM-5.3 can be and has been abliterated. What does that mean?

Firefox 157 repairs a large number of high-impact vulnerabilities.

A surprising reduction in RSA crypto strength has been discovered.

Powerful agentic AI is being used to attack merchants.

A new and potent Spectre-style processor attack has been designed.

A neighbor falls victim to a Bitcoin scam. What can be done?

A new and surprising use was found for GRC's DNS Benchmark.

An examination of the growing alignment challenges created by more intelligent AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1099-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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3 hr 4 min
October 06MacBreak Weekly 1045: The iCup Specialist
We could finally see Apple launch new smart home products this month. iPhone Duo apparently has a 'replaceable' folding display layer to help minimize crease visibility. Apple is changing Full Disk Access in macOS. And Apple's latest AirPods, AirPods 5, get a better reparability score from iFixit!... from 0 to 2.
Apple is finally ready to enter its next big category: the smart home.

'Get Ready' to pre-order the iPhone Duo starting October 12.

Apple says iPhone Duo has 'replaceable' folding display layer to minimize crease.

iPhone Duo inner display has a replaceable $19 top layer.

Apple's reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn't record video.

iCup Supply Specialist.

iOS 27.2 adds new Messages feature that's already a favorite.

iPhone 18 Pro Max cameras are Apple's best yet, but only when you squint.

Apple is changing Full Disk Access in macOS.

iFixit teardown of the new AirPods 5 reveals first real repairability improvement.

Apple & American Academy of Pediatrics team up for new Screen Time guide.

Watch Elton John give the first-ever performance at Apple Music Hall.

Apple's $634 million Apple Watch patent bill just got even bigger.

Don't change the subject, Apple tells OpenAI over its lawsuit.

Apple Music is getting a new logo.

Ron Johnson "Shop Different" review.
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: VMPal

Leo's Picks: Mac Studio Server & Hermes Conduit

Andy's Pick: True Lemon Packets

Jason's Pick: The Universe, Controlled

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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2 hr 26 min
October 04This Week in Tech 1104: Real Gs Move in Silence Like Lasagna
Is Gemini 4 truly so capable, as claimed by Google? OpenAI unveils Dots to rival Meta's Muse. Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is now in orbit. And should we be worried about the possible 'catastrophic' risks with AI, as reported in a leaked IPO filing by Anthropic?
OpenAI pauses training its most powerful models after rogue agents target government.

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it's so capable that only 'trusted cyber defenders' can have it right now

OpenAI ignored employees' warnings about safely testing A.I. models.

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broke.

OpenAI unveils Dots, new A.I. agents to rival Meta's Muse.

Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling.

Muse creates detailed profiles of all your friends and family.

Our project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit.

Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers.

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs.

Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing.

NVIDIA releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving.

Exclusive: Full list of attendees at White House AI lunch.

Trump orders US government to call AI 'Super Intelligence'.

The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next.

Exclusive: Army creates autonomy command amid Hegseth's robo-warfare push.

New AI czar unveils goals, members of White House task force.

Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings.

Robert X. Cringely.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock and Louis Maresca

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2 hr 57 min
October 04Hands-On Tech 287: Are There Risks to Scanning QR Codes?
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Barry asks whether anything inside a QR code can actually hurt you, or whether the real danger lies somewhere else, and what a person should check before scanning one out in the wild.

Send in your questions for Mikah to [email protected], and he'll answer them in a future episode!

Host: Mikah Sargent

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16 min
October 04Untitled Linux Show 273: Lost Me at Technically
This week, we're celebrating Shotcut, Cloudflare's new ACME Certificate Authority, and OpenSUSE's Leap Micro. Then there's a new SPECTRE attack and a Zimbra faw under attack. KDE Plasma and Fedora both have Betas to try, Microsoft has released WSL Containers, and the Netherlands is going with NixOS. For tips, we have eval for building scripts with variables, tuxdle for your word-game addiction, and shwim for easy remote shells in hard places.

You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4y0Hcnq and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Ken McDonald

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1 hr 41 min
October 02This Week in Space 230: Living on Lava Worlds
Think you're having a hot summer? Try living on 55 Cancri-e, a super-Earth with daytime temperatures above 4000 degrees Fahrenheit. Most of these super-Earths orbit frighteningly close to their host stars and have long since had their atmospheres scraped away, leaving them baked, parched rocks. But some, like 55 Cancri, still have dense envelopes of air. How is that possible, when the planet is 20 times closer to its star than our own planet Mercury? Dr. Laura Schaefer explains how molten lava worlds defy the odds. Plus: Starship update, the first orbital data centers, and a new year on Mars.
Headlines:
SpaceX's Starship Achieves First Full Orbital Flight With Satellite Deployments

Google and Planet Labs Launch AI Data Center Satellite

Multiple SpaceX Launches Within Hours Mark a New Operational Standard

Cowboy Space Debuts Power-Beaming AI Data Center in Orbit

Mars Celebrates a New Year on Its Extended Journey Around the Sun

NASA Anniversary and Notable Space Birthdays Noted
Main Topic: Living on Lava Worlds—Atmospheres, Extreme Planets, and the Search for Life
Early Exoplanet Detection Methods and Evolution of Exoplanet Surveys

Cosmic Shoreline Concept: How Gravity and Stellar Radiation Shape Planetary Atmospheres

Airless Valleys, Sandbars, and Other New Categories for Rocky Exoplanets

Permanent Magma Oceans: Why Some Lava-covered Worlds Retain Atmospheres

Volatiles, Atmosphere Loss, and The Soda-Bottle Effect on Hot Exoplanets

Sandbar Regime: Superheated Planets Keep Atmospheres Longer Than Expected

Case Study: 55 Cancri e and the Myth of the Diamond Planet

K2-18b: Possibilities of a Water World or Another Magma-Lava Hybrid

Redefining Goldilocks Zones With Atmospheric Survival Factors

Tidal Heating, Volcanism, and Dynamics Shaping Exoplanet Atmospheres

Future Directions: Webb Telescope, Habitable Worlds Observatory, and Prospects for Imaging True "Earths"

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Dr. Laura Schaefer

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1 hr 9 min

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