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January 19, 2025This Week in Tech 1015: Smarter Than a House Cat
Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban

Trumpcoin

Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data

Skyrocketing car-insurance premiums are pushing inflation higher

Behind the Curtain — Coming soon: Ph.D.-level super-agents

4 surprise products we could see at Samsung Unpacked 2025

Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts

US Finalizes Rule Banning Smart Cars With Russian, Chinese Tech

Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit - WyoFile

Cash App parent fined $175 million for 'woefully incomplete' response to fraud

FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Paris Martineau, and Molly White

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3h 4min
January 15, 2025This Week in Google 802: A Sycophant in Your Pocket
Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument

Alito and Playboy

A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Free our feeds fundraising

The people should own the town square

Lemley's post

Google's 'Daily Listen' lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed

Leo's AI toys

She Is in Love With ChatGPT

Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA

Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards

American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al

Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe

Cursormania!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2h 34min
January 15, 2025Windows Weekly 915: Magic Tricks for Cats
The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 brings temporary but sweet relief. There were no preview updates last month, so this month is just security/bug fixes. Plus, will Microsoft back down from its Windows 10 EOL line in the sand? It appears not. Finally, got New Year's resolutions? Paul's got a better idea. Maybe...
Windows
New Canary build with nothing in it

Microsoft will not support Office on Windows 10 after October EOL date

Microsoft is auto-installing the new Outlook in Windows 10 too - Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Parallels Desktop for Mac now supports running x86 Windows VMs. Very slowly
AI, Microsoft 365
New business models for AI emerge in 2025. Pay as you go vs. pay or no pay

Microsoft has shifted its business model strategy over two years

15 months of Copilot in Windows: Madness

Microsoft announces pay-as-you-go AI agents

Google has a different (better) take with "the best of Google AI" in Workspace

What to expect: Price hikes on subscription services to pay for this AI

Massive reorg of Microsoft's engineering groups is all about AI - There are PM-level layoffs happening now all over Microsoft

OpenAI adds tasks in beta to ChatGPT

Microsoft Excel in Windows will soon support dark mode. Wait, what?
Hardware
Surface teases a big announcement on January 30

AMD surges on incredible new x86 chips and Intel's epic fail

Former Surface design lead Ralf Groene joins Panos at Amazon. Why?

Arm Holdings plans massive licensing price hikes. Everyone needs to settle the F down

There's a 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 now. But at this price, a low-end NUC is the better choice for most
Dev
.NET 9.0.1 arrives - and with it, the fix for the app-crashing WPF/Windows 11 theming bug

Paul tried GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. It is MAGIC
Xbox
Microsoft is clearly planning something big for gaming handhelds. Windows or Xbox? Or both?

Happy New Year, Xbox fans! Microsoft to bring more Xbox exclusives to PS, Switch

Xbox to host a Developer Direct event next week

Microsoft introduces new Xbox repair options

The Nintendo Switch 2 is leaking all over the place, and there were prototypes at CES
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Think about making micro changes each month or quarter instead of huge, sweeping changes once a year

App pick of the week: Start11 v2.5

RunAs Radio this week: DevOpsDocs with Mattias Karlsson

Brown liquor pick of the week: Buchanan's Deluxe 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 37min
January 14, 2025Security Now 1008: HOTP and TOTP
Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow?

Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only).

IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care?

"SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update.

Government email is not using encryption? Really?

Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication.

Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible.

What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next?

To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two?

And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 50min
January 14, 2025MacBreak Weekly 955: Squeeze, Don't Shake
Leaked CarPlay 2 UI Widgets were discovered in an EU database, Apple is planning a plethora of products to be launched in 2025, and TSMC's Arizona chip plant is nearing Apple certification.
Talking about the Apple Watch Ultra 3 that is rumored to be coming out later this year.

CarPlay 2 custom widgets UI revealed as Apple continues development.

Vision Pro 2 won't release in 2025, but lower-cost headset is 'ramping up'.

Apple's 2025 Plan: iPhone Overhaul, Smart Home Push and AI Catch-up`.

Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple in Joe Rogan interview: 'They haven't invented anything great in a while'.

Apple's board recommends shareholders vote against proposal to eliminate diversity programs.

TSMC's Arizona chip plant nears Apple approval, but will never rival Taiwan.

Apple donating to LA wildfire recovery & allowing affected Apple Card holders to delay payments.

Apple CEO Tim Cook's total compensation rose 18% to $74.6 million last year.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: CalDigit TS4 Dock

Andy's Pick: Pentel Prestol Correction Pen

Alex's Pick: Air Table

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

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2h 37min
January 12, 2025This Week in Tech 1014: Just Say It's Capitalism
The panel discusses CES 2025

How Watch Duty's wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA

Worst in Show awards 2025

Aaron Swartz v Sam Altman

We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure

All the Meta stuff (fact checking, etc.)

Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors

The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers

Twitch Streamers Come Home After Big-Money Contracts at Rivals Dried Up

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Cory Doctorow

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2h 59min
January 08, 2025This Week in Google 801: Human Beans
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X

(30+) kottke.org: "oh shit new logo just dropped"

Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies

Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down

I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj

The Bitter Lesson

Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI

Public Domain Day 2025

CES 2025

New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart

Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way

Google's AI Help Me Read feature

Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train

Altman's latest gospel

Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro

Nicvember Post Mortum

The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements

VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 9min
January 08, 2025Windows Weekly 914: Something Weird From the Closet
We heard you missed us. We're back.
Windows
Microsoft declares 2025 the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."

As likely as "year of the Linux desktop"

The theory: Windows 10 EOL, AI PCs, lingering security fears from CrowdStrike

The issue: Windows 10 has 63 usage share right now. At this point in time, Windows 7 had only 25 percent usage share (and was in second place, not first)

Intel joins in on this fever dream but we've stopped listening

More interesting: AMD is kicking ass and taking names. And we thought the existing chips were good (they are). Related to this, PC makers are embracing AMD like never before. Check out HP's workstations (including laptops)

Microsoft is blocking the 24H2 update on PCs with Auto HDR enabled

New Canary and Beta builds ring in the New Year

Not that it matters, but Windows 11 almost had Vista Ultimate Extras-like dynamic wallpapers

Dell kills XPS and all its other PC brands because Dell is stupid and doesn't know what it had
Arm & PCs
Qualcomm defeated Arm Holdings in licensing dispute court case. And, yes, it won big time, contrary to Arm's nonsense

Qualcomm announces an even lower-end Snapdragon X chip for $600 PCs, so ASUS announces an $1100 laptop that uses it

Snapdragon Dev Kit update

Part 2 of Paul's history of Windows on Arm is up

New Arm PCs announced, including desktops. Ahead of CES, Geekom jumped the gun and said it was coming out with a Snapdragon X-based NUC. Lenovo has a NUC/SFF

NVIDIA and MediaTek confirm partnership on Arm chips for PCs
Microsoft 365
First, GitHub Copilot, but now Microsoft 365 Copilot will allegedly stop using OpenAI exclusively

Microsoft reveals (confirms) it will spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in FY 2025 as it suckles up to Trump like the rest of the tech industry

Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly tied AGI milestone to profits, not intelligence
Xbox & Gaming
Microsoft discusses a console-like experience for Windows handheld gaming. Tied to that, a new generation of handheld gaming PCs is on the way

Xbox Game Pass says Happy New Year with a full slate of Activision Blizzard titles. Just kidding

NVIDIA announces new graphics cards for PCs

No one wants this, but Xbox is coming to LG smart TVs

Xbox Rewards shuffles the deck chairs, hopes no one notices it's worse now
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Spend a little, upgrade to Windows 11

App pick of the week: Microsoft PowerToys

RunAs Radio this week: Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 45min
January 07, 2025Security Now 1007: AI Training & Inference
The consequences of Internet content restriction.

The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.

The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.

The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.

SonicWall vulnerability patching

Shadowserver Foundation & eMail Encryption

Salt Typhoon Evicted

HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade.

The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What?

Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM.

And... what I learned from three weeks of study of AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1007-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 47min
January 07, 2025MacBreak Weekly 954: Lickable Interface
The MacBreak Weekly crew celebrates the 25th anniversary of Mac OS X, discusses Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns, and shares their thoughts on new gaming capabilities coming to the Vision Pro headset. The hosts also debate the future of Google search in light of the US government's antitrust case and touch on the possibility of non-invasive glucose monitoring coming to the Apple Watch.

• Release of iOS and iPadOS 16.3.1 with important bug fixes and security updates

• 25th anniversary of Mac OS X and its importance in providing a modern, Unix-based foundation that became the basis for Apple's other operating systems

• Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns related to accidental recordings, while maintaining that user data was never sold or used for marketing

• Speculation on why Apple is unlikely to create its own search engine, particularly due to its lucrative deal with Google and the economic risks involved

• Concerns over Apple's AI-generated news summaries sometimes being wildly inaccurate, prompting calls for the company to suspend the feature until it can be improved

• Expansion of Apple Fitness+ with new workouts and integration with the Strava workout tracking platform

• The gang discusses the ethical implications of Apple potentially securing exclusive rights to non-invasive blood glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

• Nvidia announcing upcoming support for its GeForce Now game streaming service on the Vision Pro headset, plus the ability to use the device for capturing movement to train AI for robotics

• 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu used Apple Vision Pro during the film's post-production process

Picks of the Week:

• Leo: Ghostty - a macOS terminal with metal integration

• Jason: Govee Christmas Lights 2, programmable LED lights for festive decoration

• Alex: iPhone Cinematic mode, which allows for impressive video capture and post-production focus adjustments

• Andy: Anker's new 140W 4-port charger, offering fast charging capabilities for multiple devices simultaneously

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

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2h 21min

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