This Week's Stories• Apple Card starts rolling out• Apple Q3 Earnings• Apple spends big on R&D;• Apple stops talking about AR, starts talking about tariffs• 16" MacBook Pro will have up to 8 cores• Apple patents FaceID on Macs• TouchID coming back to iPhone in 2021?• FileMaker changes name back to ClarisPicks of the Week:• Leo's Pick: Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator• Andy's Pick: Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski• Rene's Pick: Samsung X5 portable SDD• Lory's Pick: Journey for iOS• Alex's Pick: AudioKit Pro 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil 
Guest: Alex Lindsay 
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MacBreak Weekly 673: There. Are. Four. Hosts!

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'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill 
TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google 
How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge 
The Chilling of TikTok 
FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching 
Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage 
Paris' nuts 
Rabbit R1 
brilliant.xyz 
More wearable AI: IYO One 
The Man Who Killed Google Search 
Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality' 
The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy 
Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints 
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web' 
Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam 
Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room' 
This fun little web game: Equinox.Space 
magCulture 
No one buys books 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 
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This Week in Google 765: Inflatable Nuts

Leo, Paul, and Richard steer towards the performance race as they speculate about how Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus PCs will compare to Apple Silicon MacBooks. What makes a laptop truly user-friendly? System reliability, UI consistency, battery life? Plus, the recent Fallout TV series, the practicality of using winget for browser installations, and how the ARM chipset switch is revving up the PC market. 
ARMed & ready 
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X Plus and confirms Paul's report that the Snapdragon X Elite will have three SKUs (product editions) 
All four SKUs outperform Apple M3, Intel Core Ultra 7/9, AMD Ryzen 9 7940/8945HS on most benchmarks 
Why? PC makers asked Qualcomm for familiar choices 
Previously, an X Plus-based Surface Pro 10 and an X Elite-based ThinkPad T40s leaked. Paul can now confirm from a source that Surface Laptop 6 (13 and 15-inch) and Surface Pro will all be on X (something} 
Vivaldi is bringing its browser to Windows on Arm too 
Windows 11 
The April 2024 Week D preview update is here: Recommended apps and frequently used apps in Start, Widgets icon updates, Lock screen widgets improvements 
Canary: Moves off 24H2 train to build 26200, no more switch to Dev, minor changes to the Widgets board and Taskbar (no new build for Dev) 
Beta: New Widgets design with navigation bar, new account manager in Start, Gmail in Share, MSA recovery advertisement, and new Game Pass recommendation card in Settings 
Microsoft Store app downloads from the web get simpler, more sophisticated 
After yet another Quest 2 Headset price cut, and mounting problems for Apple's Vision Pro, Meta opens up Horizon OS, Microsoft is sort-of on board 
Microsoft 365/Dev 
Office LTSC 2024 commercial is now available in preview 
Classic Teams rides off into the sunset on July 1 
Dropbox offers deeper Microsoft 365 integration 
GitHub sees success in 2FA push 
AI 
The European Commission will not formally investigate Microsoft/OpenAI partnership 
Microsoft released a new SLM 
Microsoft gives a sneak peek of VASA-1, a crazy and scary "talking faces" AI tool 
Google copies Microsoft again, announces massive AI reorg - that has Pixel fans worried 
Adobe's generative AI image capabilities are predictably fantastic 
Xbox 
Get an Xbox Mastercard in the US, if you're a tool 
Microsoft announces IGN x ID@Xbox digital showcase - indie games 
Tips & Picks 
Tip of the week: Have you heard the one joke about the one time you need to use Edge? 
App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder 
RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.4 with Sydney Smith 
Brown liquor pick of the week: GlenKinchie 12 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell 
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Windows Weekly 878: If You Build It, You Are Dumb

 
What do you call "Stuxnet on steroids"?? 
Voyager 1 update 
Android 15 to quarantine apps 
Thunderbird & Microsoft Exchange 
China bans Western encrypted messaging apps 
Gentoo says "no" to AI 
Cars collecting diving data 
Freezing your credit 
Investopedia 
Computer Science Abstractions 
Lazy People vs. Secure Systems 
Actalis issues free S/MIME certificates 
PIN Encryption 
DRAM and GhostRace 
AT&T; Phishing Scam 
Race Conditions and Multi-core processors 
An Alternative to the Current Credit System 
SpinRite Updates 
Chat (out of) Control 
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Security Now 971: Chat (out of) Control

Apple announced a May 7th event, hinting very heavily that new iPads will be announced at the event! Will Apple stop producing its FineWoven accessories following negative reviews of the product? Apple is continuing its environmental push. And is Apple cutting its future Vision Pro shipment forecasts? 
Apple announces May 7th event for new iPad. 
Apple reportedly stops production of FineWoven accessories. 
Apple hits 18 gigawatts of clean energy in its environmental push. 
What really happens when you trade In an iPhone at the Apple Store. 
Apple finally plans to release a Calculator app for iPad later this year. 
macOS 15 rumored to feature revamped Calculator app. 
Apple says it was ordered to pull WhatsApp from China app store. 
Apple cuts 2024 & 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts. 
Picks of the Week: 
Shelly's Pick: Quinn Martin TV Shows 
Andy's Pick: MediaHuman Audio Converter 
Alex's Pick: Apple Reality Composer 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko 
Guest: Shelly Brisbin 
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MacBreak Weekly 918: You're Rubbing It Wrong

Need a Linux distro to clean up after a ransomware incident? We've got CSI Linux! Want to run a newer mainline kernel with a RHEL derivitave? Rocky's doing it! And Nvidia has hired a Nouveau developer, the 6.10 kernel may have a blue screen of death, and Gentoo bans AI code! For tips we have nmon to build-your-own top, the final staps to re-sizing a virtual machine drive, and obfuscate for doing a bit of image redaction. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3Ju3l6G and see you next week! 
Host: Jonathan Bennett 
Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Jeff Massie 
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MacBreak Weekly 673: There. Are. Four. Hosts!

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