Total Leo (Audio)

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A compendium of podcasts from the Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte. This feed includes all of Leo's audio or video releases and sometimes includes his appearances on other podcasts. One feed to serve them a

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September 08, 2026Security Now 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss
OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines.
We start out with a classic old school hack against Dropbox.

Next Patch Tuesday will be enabling "Memory Integrity" for many.

Firefox moved to 155 and obtained a dumb Smart Window.

CISA is terminating 6 most valuable cybersecurity services.

OpenAI advanced to topof the heap with GPT-6 Astra.

But... is it now hiding some of its thinking from monitoring?

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face. Who's that good for?

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber. Is it good?

Chinese cyberespionage is using AI to become more slippery.

Matthew Green proposes a fascinating take on AI bug drought.

A lifelong safety engineer contemplates AI-driven loss of expertise.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1095-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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September 08, 2026MacBreak Weekly 1041: SHAME
Apple's long-awaited foldable iPhone could finally be revealed, but will a $2,000+ price tag turn it into an instant sensation or a tech novelty? The team debates whether Apple's ecosystem power is enough to make folding phones mainstream.

• Anticipation, rumors, and pricing speculation on Apple's foldable iPhone

• Apple event predictions: iPhone, Apple Watch, Ultra, and other possible launches

• Apple TV/home hub speculation and Siri AI as the next major push

• Apple is still working on a foldable Mac

• Apple Maps and Google Maps controversy: renaming Lake Ontario

• M6 MacBook Pro and MacBook Neo 2 launching this fall, and MacBook Ultra in 2027?

• Apple drops Intel support for new Mac App Store apps

• Vision Pro gets FDA approval for surgery use

• Netflix iOS games reach 80+ ad-free iPhone and iPad games

• Apple TV racks up Emmy wins, with Widows Bay set for awards sweep

• New Apple TV projects: Silo universe expansion, The Waffle House Index thriller

Picks of the Week

• Christina's Pick: You Can See Everything trailer

• Leo's Pick: Airfoil

• Andy's Pick: soundcore P31i Wireless Earbuds

• Jason's Pick: XTEINK X4 Pro & Crosspoint Reader

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

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September 06, 2026This Week in Tech 1100: Yoloville
When politicians, parents, and platforms collide, who protects kids from tech's dark side? Dive into real stories of digital parenting, policy-making headaches, and the unexpected ways tech companies shape everyday life.
US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

Why the Courts Are Hesitant to Punish Tech Giants Like Meta and Google

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple

Apple, OpenAI legal fight keeps escalating. Here's how we got here

Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad

FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been 'secretly and systematically' overcharging for ads

Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings

Vance Called AI Satanic. He Struck a Chord Among Christian Republicans.

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It's Basically Alive

Nvidia Extends A.I. Spending Spree With $12.9 Billion Deal for Hugging Face

Tesla's Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It's Already Under Investigation

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Owen JJ Stone

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September 02, 2026Intelligent Machines 886: Infinite Slop
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.
Judge Rules on Google Ads Case

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk

OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns

Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera

Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search

I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more

(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

Unusual Suspects

Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers

Archived video

CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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September 02, 2026Windows Weekly 999: Physical Goods
While Microsoft pushes Copilot+ PCs, NVIDIA storms into the Windows ecosystem with AI-focused Spark machines and game-changing specs, igniting new rivalries with Apple and upending expectations for what local hardware can do. Plus, Atari revives 39 Activision classics for a price that will make retro fans blink, while the Sonos saga continues as it pivots to an open AI platform that might finally win back old loyalties. Finally, Paul's Markdown book will be released sometime in the next week.
Windows
The mystery of 26H2 is now less mysterious

Last week: Week D came and went without a preview release, triggering speculation

Microsoft issues Windows 11 version 26H2 to Release Preview, a first

This means a September or October release to stable. Just guessing, but Preview Update in September, general Update in October is most likely

Version numbers don't matter much anymore. There are no unique 26H2 features, just a few unique 26H2 presets - These include Point-in-time restore and Memory Integrity Protection being on by default

Two 26H1 pre-release builds with little to speak of

IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin

Acer is first out of the gates with dozens of new PCs, including one based on the NVIDIA RTX Spark

EU General Court confirms that Microsoft Edge is not a gatekeeper

Visual Studio Code now has a full Markdown Editor experience

Brave now offers free email aliases, and will have a premium option soon

Firefox for iOS now has integrated ad blocking

NVIDIA - $96.2 billion in revenues, up 106 percent YOY

Dell - record $47 billion in revenues, but it's all from server/infrastructure

HP - $15.7 billion in revenues, up 12.5 percent - $11.8 billion from PCs, vs. $15 billion for all Dell client products
AI/dev
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for stealing their music

Gemini Notebook gets first Expert Intelligence upgrade with integrated e-book support

Sonos announces Sonos 27 OS with major AI functionality

Microsoft moves WinUI development fully to GitHub ahead of open-sourcing it
XBOX and gaming
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, more coming to Game Pass

Every Activision title for the Atari 2600 is being reissued in cartridge form, but it's going to cost you
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Markdown: A Field Guide for Writers

App pick of the week: ImageGlass 10

RunAs Radio this week: Reimagining Intranets with Susan Hanley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Macaloney's Cath-Nah-Aven

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 19min
September 01, 2026Security Now 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings
AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices.
A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse.

Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent.

A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance.

How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags?

What did Claude make of last week's podcast?

Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection?

A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks".

AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts.

Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms?

A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials".

The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies".

Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 52min
September 01, 2026MacBreak Weekly 1040: New CEO, Who Dis?
John Ternus is officially Apple CEO as of September 1st. Apple pushes back against OpenAI's attempts to delay its lawsuit against the AI company. What will Apple unveil at its upcoming September 'Surprise and Shine' event? And is Apple's immersive baseball event a hit?
John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple.

Tim Cook, the man who grew Apple by trillions of dollars.

Apple's Ternus takes the reins as CEO, with AI as job No. 1.

OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple.

Potential Apple RAM supplier CXMT sues feds to take it off the supplier blacklist.

China's CXMT makes breakthrough in advanced memory chips.

Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine'.

What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9.

Leaker says iPhone Ultra will come in these colors, with one surprise.

Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle.
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: GroxConnect/GroxStudio

Andy's Pick: Lenovo ThinkVision M14

Jason's Pick: Better Desktop by Knightscape in the Discord

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

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2h 28min
August 30, 2026This Week in Tech 1099: Pantsless Whims
As AI-generated video blurs reality and new Macs hit five-figure price tags, the conversation digs into who's left behind in the race to automate and whether "democratizing" tech actually delivers on its promise. Find out how NVIDIA, Meta, and even Apple are reshaping the tech game, and why it might not be good news for everyone.
Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

NVIDIA's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending

Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio

How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger

'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance

The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms

With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot

Skynet went live yesterday

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harry McCracken, and Molly White

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August 26, 2026Intelligent Machines 885: Get on the Butter Box
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X

Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content

Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'

(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X

Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind

Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.

Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

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Co-Host: Christina Warren

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2h 23min
August 26, 2026Windows Weekly 998: Laptop Fort
Microsoft tries to prove Windows on ARM is ready for prime time, but behind the PR push, unresolved questions about compatibility, branding, and a tepid market threaten to derail the company's ambitions. Also, PowerToys 0.101 is here with Windows Hopper and multiple improvements! Plus, Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac launches.
Windows
If a Week D falls in the woods and no one installs it, did a Week D really happen?

Theory: This is the big one, with the three big changes Microsoft promised this year. Basically, this is Windows 11 version 26H2

Three new builds across Beta, Experimental, and Experimental (26H1) with a modernized AutoPlay experience and a new "Open apps maximized" accessibility feature

Microsoft reminds business customers that Windows on Arm is terrific ahead of Nvidia RTX Spark launch

Totally coincidental that this happened on the same day that Apple announced a new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and M5 Max
Microsoft 365
OneDrive for Mac gets native sync engine

Proton Mail gets automatic and customizable category filtering
AI/dev
Bill Gates issues a strong warning on the dangers of AI. And you're not going to believe what number two is

WSJ report echoes the complaints that Paul has been making for years. Again

Adobe Firefly gets production-quality music, speech, and sound effect generation capabilities

Apple Music will start labeling AI-generated music

.NET Conf 2026 on track for November with .NET 11
XBOX and gaming
XBOX testing long-awaited disc to digital entitlements

The ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 is available now for $1299, or in a $2499 bundle

Rumor: Microsoft prepping an Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console for November

Update: it's real. The XBOX 25th anniversary collection arrives November 13

Microsoft announces (third party) Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection of hardware peripherals

IKEA has designed some XBOX-influenced furniture and it is amazing

Rockstar Games weighs in on leaks as GTA VI reveal arrives (tomorrow)

Commodore announces Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC, consoles

NVIDIA brings GeForce Now to Firefox
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Expose yourself to other points of view

App pick of the week: PowerToys

RunAs Radio this week: Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill

Brown liquor pick of the week: SpiceBox Spiced Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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