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August 05, 2025Security Now 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP
A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.

How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.

"Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.

Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.

YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.

Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.

A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.

A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.

What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.

An update on "Artemis".

With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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August 05, 2025MacBreak Weekly 984: Wessonality
Apple's Q3 2025 results are here, and Jason Snell has the charts generated and ready to go! Tim Cook holds a rare company-wide meeting to talk about AI. Could Visa take over the Apple Card from Mastercard? And Google is making fun of the delay of Apple Intelligence & Siri in its latest Pixel 10 ad!
Apple Q3 2025 results and charts: $95B revenue.

Apple CEO tells staff AI is 'ours to grab' in hourlong pep talk.

Apple's new 'Answers' team eyes ChatGPT-like product in AI push.

Google makes fun of Apple Intelligence Siri delay in ad promoting Pixel 10.

Tim Cook has now been Apple's CEO for longer than Steve Jobs.

Visa offers Apple roughly $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard.

macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 retires the old Macintosh HD icon.

Japan mandates Apple must allow third-party app stores and payment systems.

Man controls iPad with his mind using Synchron brain implant.

Apple TV+ continues push into original podcasting with Unicorn Girl.

New Apple TV still launching this year.

Pico Mac Nano no longer sold assembled due to Apple.

David Pogue announces 'Apple: The First 50 Years' book.
Picks of the Week:
Leo's Pick: uBlock Origin Lite

Andy's Pick: LisaGUI

Jason's Pick: Anova Sous Vide

Alex's Pick: Nugs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2h 17min
August 03, 2025This Week in Tech 1043: It All Starts With Baby Shark
A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash

Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021

Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push

Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'

Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.

Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'

AI Capex is Eating the Economy

Will data centers crash the economy?

What content strategy looks like in the age of AI

Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump

How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything

Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan

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2h 55min
July 30, 2025Intelligent Machines 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy
Interview with Ian Krietzberg

Leo's shows off his new AI toys

Paris unveils her new desk setup

Personal Superintelligence

You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang

Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content

Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip

The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk

Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster

Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show

This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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2h 53min
July 30, 2025Windows Weekly 943: Five Paperclips
Ten years ago yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10, fixing the issues with Windows 8.x and giving Windows 7 users a solid upgrade. One historical curiosity: It was the first Windows release without a major launch event. In other news, Microsoft publishes a Nadella email to the troops about the layoffs, but he never really addresses the layoffs.
Windows 10 turns 10
The Bad: Its legacy is mixed, as this is when the enshittification of Windows began, really

Windows as a Service

Ads, crapware, and telemetry — plus some made-up privacy issues

Terry Myerson gaff about one billion users

Universal apps/One Windows was a bust, with Windows Phone and HoloLens failures

Windows 10's launch was a missed opportunity to make the Store matter

The Good: Windows Subsystem for Linux was huge

WinGet was also huge, but is underappreciated and underutilized to this day

It did reverse the mistakes of Windows 8, and in time it got more stable as Microsoft figured out WaaS (and then went on to abuse it)

Oh, and the Windows 10 Field Guide is free to celebrate the anniversary
Windows 11
Microsoft is using Rust for Surface drivers, and it wants all Windows drivers to switch to Rust too

The Link to Windows app is getting a nice upgrade on Android

Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2): Settings agent for x86, SCOOBE changes, Click to Do improvements, Windows Search improvements

Canary: Just a couple of bug fixes (Actually, two builds, one today also with no features)

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder are Now Native on Windows 11 on Arm in beta

Opera files antitrust case against Microsoft in Brazil for Windows 11/Edge behaviors

Another app blocking Recall in a slow-drop of negative Recall-related AI privacy news for Microsoft.

Rant: More importantly, Recall is boring and not useful given the hype around it.

Intel earnings are flat, but more layoffs are on the way

Lenovo rollable laptop in action! (ThinkBook Plus Gen 6)

Lenovo makes a lot of weird laptops now (like the dual-screen Yoga Book 9i Paul reviewed last year) — apparently they didn't get the message after Microsoft cancelled the Surface Neo and Windows 10X.

Does the average modern Windows laptop really need a touchscreen? Is this a relic of the Windows 8 era?
AI & Microsoft 365
Perplexity Comet is real and it shows the way forward for AI web browsers

Coincidentally, Microsoft suddenly launches Copilot mode for Microsoft Edge. (But I've played with Copilot Mode, and it's no Comet or Dia.)

Copilot is getting real-time expressions. It's the return of Clippy!

Microsoft's long-term Copilot plans are a lot wilder than you might expect

Google earned $96.4 billion in one quarter. This shows that it has not been impacted by other AIs yet
Xbox & gaming
Xbox is coming to Gamerscom in Germany in August, and it's bringing the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds

The July Xbox Update is here and it's all about the PC

Paul reviewed the Lenovo Legion Go S, and the Windows experience was so bad. Also, PC OEMs are having trouble competing with the Steam Deck's pricing on gaming handhelds.
Tips & picks
Tips of the week: Chris and Paul are partnering on his new newsletter

App pick of the week: Perplexity Pro

Beer pick of the week: Alesong Rhino Suit

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/943

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

Guest: Chris Hoffman
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2h 48min
July 29, 2025Security Now 1036: Inside the SharePoint 0-day
Brave randomizes its fingerprints.

The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default.

Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages.

6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear.

Warfare has significantly become cyber.

Allianz Life loses control of 125 million customers' data.

The CIA's Acquisition Research Center website was hacked.

The Pentagon says the SharePoint RCE didn't get them.

A look at a DPRK "laptop farm" to impersonate Americans.

FIDO's passkey was NOT bypassed by a MITM after all.

Is our data safe anywhere?

The UK is trying to back-pedal out of the Apple ADP mess.

Meanwhile, the EU resumes its push for "Chat Control".

Microsoft fumbled the patch of a powerful Pwn2Own exploit

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1036-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 59min
July 29, 2025MacBreak Weekly 983: The Saggy Quarter
The public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and others are available now. A new feature in iOS 26 could help filter spam messages more effectively. Will Chase be the new home for the Apple Card? And is Apple's new AppleCare One service worth it for you?
Does iPadOS 26 steer the iPad in the wrong direction?

First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta.

iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new.

Apple's iOS 26 text filters could cost political campaigns millions of dollars, top GOP group warns.

JPMorgan Chase is the hot favorite for Apple Card takeover.

AppleCare One launches as a single plan to cover multiple Apple devices.

First look: Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive test footage for Apple Vision Pro.

Sundar Pichai thinks that phones will still matter for at least a few years.

Developers can now try special offers to persuade subscribers to stay.

UK ready to impose competition interventions on Apple and Google.

Blender is building a full-featured iPad app, but it's not clear when it will be released.

Adobe rolls out new generative AI features for Photoshop to let users more easily add or remove people and objects.

Apple TV+ unveils first look at Vince Gilligan's new science fiction drama "Pluribus," starring Emmy Award nominee Rhea Seehorn.

iPhone 17 development device spotted in the wild.

Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's Superintelligence team.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Rocket

Leo's Pick: Perplexity MCP for Mac

Andy's Pick: Tom Lehrer's public domain songs

Alex's Pick: Magic John Screen Protector

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2h 20min
July 27, 2025This Week in Tech 1042: Well Played Astronomer
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation

Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out

FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report

Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial

Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day

A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups

People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online

Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories

AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger

Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal

Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Molly White, Janko Roettgers, and Jacob Ward

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2h 21min
July 23, 2025Intelligent Machines 829: The Yonkers Questions
Interview with Steven Johnson

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch

(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity

SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces

A new study just upended AI safety

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

Tesla results

Total Party Kill

Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen

Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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2h 57min
July 23, 2025Windows Weekly 942: A World of Wonder
Microsoft finally kills Movies & TV show service in the Microsoft Store. This was the final vestigial minder of Zune that remained. There was Groove Video and Xbox Video, too. Microsoft previously killed eBook (2019) and music (2017) sales. At this point, you would have to be insane to buy content from Microsoft, sorry... but you can get to some of your content on other services via Movies Anywhere - and use the Movies & TV app for now in Windows, which is no longer bundled.
Windows 11
It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard

A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10

Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint

Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery

Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year

Describe image action for Click to Do (for AMD/Intel), image descriptions in Narrator (AMD/Intel), performance log improvements (!), Click to Do search bar test, Lock screen improvements, privacy improvements head to Dev and Beta channels

Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time

Brave will automatically block Recall

WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app

Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform

Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone
Surface/Copilot+ PC
Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features

It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life

All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers

Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside

Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming

Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"

Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw

DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search
Xbox and gaming
The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC

Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?

App pick of the week: Proton Lumo

RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam

Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10

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2h 48min

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