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- Tech News Weekly 385: Wikipedia's AI Strategy Explained
In this episode of Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti explore the growing role of AI in consumer tech, the latest legal setback for Apple's App Store policies, and two in-depth interviews: Bloomberg's Leah Nylen breaks down the DOJ's proposed remedies in the antitrust case against Google, and Wikimedia's Leila Zia shares the foundation's new AI strategy that centers humans—not machines.
- ChatGPT Adds Shopping Tools: Abrar Al-Heeti highlights OpenAI's new AI-powered shopping experience in ChatGPT, which personalizes product recommendations and integrates purchase links—all without leaving the chat window. She and Mikah explore the implications for consumer trust, affiliate marketing, and the future of Amazon and Google as default shopping destinations.
- Apple vs. Epic: Court Strikes Back: Mikah breaks down a dramatic new ruling against Apple, in which a judge found the company in violation of a 2021 injunction and imposed strict limits on how it can control third-party payments. Mikah and Abrar discuss how this could reshape the App Store's fee model and what it means for developers and users alike.
- Google's Antitrust Remedy Phase: Bloomberg antitrust reporter Leah Nylen returns to unpack the latest in the DOJ's case against Google. She explains the three proposed remedies—including a possible Chrome browser divestiture—and what testimony from tech competitors like DuckDuckGo, Perplexity, and OpenAI revealed about Google's dominance in search and AI.
- Wikipedia's Human-Centered AI Strategy: Leila Zia, Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, outlines their new AI roadmap, which focuses on supporting Wikipedia's volunteer editors rather than replacing them. She details how AI will assist with moderation, multilingual knowledge expansion, and mentorship—all while upholding values of transparency and human agency.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guests: Leah Nylen and Leila Zia
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1 hr 5 min - Intelligent Machines 817: Wheel 101
- Interview with Jacob Ward
- Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
- The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
- The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
- Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute
- A rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California
- You can't lick a badger twice
- Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta's AI app
- Zuck video promoting Meta AI learning all about you and your loved ones
- Melanie Mitchell: LLMs & World Models part 1
- Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
- Take It Down Act heads to Trump's desk
- Attention Kmart Shoppers
- Digital creator jobs jump 7.5x since pandemic
- Rabbit ears
- Orb.net
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jacob Ward
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2 hr 43 min - Windows Weekly 930: Flocculation & Saponification
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.
Windows
- Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
- Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
- Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
- Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
- Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
- That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting
Corporate
- Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
- Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
- Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
- Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales
Dev
- Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
- Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
- What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC
AI
- Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
- Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
- Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
- Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
- OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
- ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
- Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
- YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
- Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
- DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
- Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want
Xbox
- Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Be prepared
- App pick of the week: Firefox 138
- RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
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2 hr 41 min - Security Now 1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse
- Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
- And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
- North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
- The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
- New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
- Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
- How malware has taken to hiding inside the Windows Sandbox and what you can do to stop it
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1023-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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2 hr 45 min - MacBreak Weekly 970: Too Little Jam Over Too Much Bread
Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India by as early as next year. Apple's rumored plans for its next Vision Pro device are starting to become clearer, with a chance of it being released by the end of this year. And the EU is hitting Meta and Apple with hefty fines.
- Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China.
- 20th anniversary iPhone likely to be made in China due to 'extraordinarily complex' design.
- Apple begins breaking up its AI team with robotics, Siri changes.
- New Apple Vision 'Air' product could launch this year, per report.
- iOS 18.5 release date: Your iPhone's next update is coming soon.
- Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices.
- Perplexity targets Siri with actually useful voice actions from an iPhone AI chatbot app.
- The European Union hits Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines.
- Sleeping with the Apple Watch.
Picks of the Week:
- Jason's Pick: Kindle Paperwhite SIgnature Edition.
- Alex's Pick: Common Ground
- Andy's Pick: Free Comic Book Day!
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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2 hr 11 min - This Week in Tech 1029: Never Lick a Badger Twice
- The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
- NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
- Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
- Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
- Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
- What Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?
- 4chan Is Back Online, Days After The Infamous Hack That Leaked Its "Janitors" Emails
- Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
- Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome
- Google's revenue tops Wall Street's expectations — and the stock climbs
- Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
- PC shipments spike as Windows 10's end and U.S. tariffs loom
- Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders: Sold out at most retailers including GameStop, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others
- The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
- Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue
- In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
- Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Daniel Rubino, and Cathy Gellis
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2 hr 34 min - Tech News Weekly 384: Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram Envy
Abrar-Al Heeti and Emily Forlini are here this week for Tech News Weekly! Is Mark Zuckerberg envious of Instagram's popularity, even after purchasing the company? The first Tesla robotaxis are hitting the road. Apple drops the 'available now' tagline from its Apple Intelligence page. And Motorola RAZR announces a new lineup of its foldable devices, including a $1,300 option!
- Abrar discusses information that became public during Meta's antitrust trial, highlighting how Meta has sought to reduce Instagram's popularity.
- Emily wrote a story on Tesla's first robotaxis hitting roadways in Austin and San Francisco.
- Apple has quietly removed its 'available now' advertising tagline from its Apple Intelligence page following an inquiry from the National Advertising Division.
- And Mike Sorrentino of CNET joins Abrar to talk about Motorola's recently announced updated RAZR foldable phones, including a premium version called the RAZR Ultra.
Hosts: Abrar Al-Heeti and Emily Forlini
Guest: Mike Sorrentino
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1 hr 5 min - Intelligent Machines 816: Flappy Jeff
- Interview with Harper Reed
- AI Horseless Carriages
- Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'
- Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:
- After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT
- China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
- Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere
- Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
- Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.
- Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
- A New Form of Verification on Bluesky
- Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year
- The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content
- Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
- The Welikia project
- 18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain
- Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Harper Reed
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2 hr 52 min - Windows Weekly 929: The Blue Screen of Soup
It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?
Windows
- New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)
- Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta
- Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta
- Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today
- Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features
- Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support
- Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC
- Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)
- Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts
AI
- We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way
- Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge
- Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students
- Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)
- Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too
Antitrust
- It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning
- Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year
- US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google
- US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly
- What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?
- OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious
- Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate
- Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA
- Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)
Xbox/gaming
- Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass
- Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs
- It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change
- And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again
- HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby
- RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 18 min - Security Now 1022: The Windows Sandbox
- Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping.
- Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out.
- The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life.
- China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan).
- CISA says what Oracle still refuses to.
- Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise.
- An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)
- The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(
- A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley.
- Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe.
- The EFF is never happy. But especially now, about Florida.
- Interesting research into ransomware payouts.
- Windows Sandbox: The amazing gem hidden inside all Windows 10 & 11!
Show Notesb - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1022-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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