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April 27, 2025This 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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April 27, 2025 Untitled Linux Show 200: Who Needs A Desktop Anyway?
Cosmic is nearly Beta-worthy, The NVIDIA Beta driver is solid, and we look back on a Code of Conduct legacy at Gnome. Then a shiny new RISC gadget catches our eyes and wallets, there's plenty of controversy in the Kernel, and new things are coming for Linux Graphics. For tips we have mispipe for a slightly different take on piping commands, Bitwarden's Command Line interface, and a quick primer on quotation marks on the command line. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4d0dxlh and happy 200th!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Jeff Massie

Guest: Leo Laporte

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1h 48min
April 23, 2025Intelligent 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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April 23, 2025Windows 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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2h 18min
April 22, 2025Security 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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2h 54min
April 22, 2025MacBreak Weekly 969: Here Comes the Pizza
It's a rumor-filled edition of MacBreak Weekly! Is an updated Apple TV coming soon? New connectivity features are reportedly coming to the upcoming Apple Watch Ultra 3. Apple is dropping the 'available now' tagline from its Apple Intelligence page. And Apple is celebrating Earth Day!
Tim Cook honors Pope Francis on X.

One of Pope Francis's last prayer intentions urged people to 'look less at screens'.

New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year.

Apple's new Siri chief enlists Vision Pro talent to start comeback bid.

Apple Watch Ultra 3 will go all-in on reducing your iPhone use.

Sell Apple stock before it sinks another 30%, analyst says.

Apple drops 'available now' from Apple Intelligence page.

iPhone 17 Pro could be available in Sky Blue, leaker claims.

Images of Apple 'Vision Air' power cable emerge online.

Cupertino: City pays Apple $12.1 million following sales tax settlement.

Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who's CEO.

Apple celebrating Earth Day in these five ways.

Meta removes use of Apple Intelligence in Its Apps on iPhone.

Apple uses bug report data for AI training in iOS 18.5 beta.

Indie App Spotlight: 'Ping Pong Club' brings realistic table tennis to Apple Vision Pro.

No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon.

Brett Goldstein Compares 'Ted Lasso' Season 4 To Dead Cat: "We Buried It".

Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps.

M2 iPad Air Runs Windows 11 ARM via Emulation, Thanks to EU Rules.
Picks of the Week:
Alex's Pick: Domke Wrap

Andy's Pick: Mixerology for iOS

Jason's Pick: Bird Buddy

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

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2h 26min
April 20, 2025This Week in Tech 1028: Some Had Leashes
Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup

AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk

OpenAI's secret Yap score

4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack

FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe

Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon'

Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games

Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence

Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers

Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires

China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart

OpenAI is building a social network

Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People

New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children

Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau

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2h 57min
April 16, 2025Intelligent Machines 815: Fire In the Hole!
Interview with Nikita Roy

Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity

When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

The Dark Power of Fraternities

Monkey.zip

High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging

Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says

OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'

Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped

Pickled Popeyes

A new season of Game Changer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nikita Roy

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2h 36min
April 16, 2025Windows Weekly 928: The Rice is Done
Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!
Windows 11
Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:

Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June

Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above

Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app

Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday

Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier

Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta

Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry
Hardware
Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10

First major change under new Intel CEO

What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see

Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group
AI
Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent

Adobe is going agentic too

OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network

OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models

ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory

Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration

Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink
Xbox and games
Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google??

COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks

Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories

Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net

Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise

App pick of the week: Notion Mail

RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes

Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve

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2h 20min
April 15, 2025Security Now 1021: Device Bound Session Credentials
Android to get "Lockdown Mode".

What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?

Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?

My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.

Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.

Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?

Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.

An Apple -vs- the UK update.

"Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?)

The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.

When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages.

Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit.

Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3h 15min

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