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November 11Intelligent Machines 896: Culling the Herd
Can one developer's breakthrough double or even quadruple local AI performance on your own hardware? Explore how TensorFold could make cloud-based models look slow and why giants like Apple and Nvidia are taking notice.
Nvidia is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang

The Nvidia capital atlas: really good graphics

(12) Fireside Alpha on X: "Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles" "You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, mental illness, these will be https://t.co/quRQbixDSu" / X

AMD Zen 6 EPYC 'Venice' deep dive and benchmarking – 9686F outclasses Nvidia's Vera, dual EPYC 9996 with 1,024 threads delivers up to 93% performance gain gen-on-gen

Anthropic to Seek $1.3 Trillion Valuation in IPO

Anthropic to Proceed With IPO Roadshow Next Week

3 takeaways from the big AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about

Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

OpenAI Completes $11 Billion Portion of Funding at $1.25 Trillion Value

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

Google touts AI breakthrough, path to "unhackable" software

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google Won't Give Schools the One Thing They Want

AI teddy for three-year-olds gave unprompted self-harm reply, BBC finds

United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots From Booking Flights

Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat — and Palantir's products are 'essentially progressive'

I Used NYT Cooking's New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It's Actually Pretty Good

Spelunkr - cable TV but weirder

danah boyd: No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.

remember the world bollard association

Munich's Alguth Stone

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ash Hart

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2 hr 43 min
November 11Windows Weekly 1009: Creamy Nougat Center
Leo is back! From Patch Tuesday's 1000+ vulnerabilities to the relentless updates and evolving Windows features, the conversation lays bare how quickly the desktop is being reinvented, with hybrid AI and hardware hiccups included! Local AI does not rise to the challenge, hampering RTX Spark. Plus, Paul has finally started incorporating AI into his work.
Windows
Patch Tuesday: Minor improvements across 25H2/26H2 and 26H1

Five new builds on Friday, just one notable feature change

Clipchamp is still the reigning king of easy-to-use but powerful video editors

Microsoft Edge and Widgets in Windows 11 get a new Discover feed

Opera now has over 100 million users on desktop

Vivaldi completely rewrites its tracker and ad blockers on desktop and mobile

Qualcomm earnings: Waiting on the datacenter to save the company

HP OmniBook Ultra 16 review - RTX Spark is here
AI and dev
No one expected Jensen Huang to be the problem with Big AI

After a powerful set of updates, now you can use Google Antigravity for productivity, too

Adobe opens up to third-party AI assistants, expands partnerships with Microsoft and Google

New Linux distribution promises to out-AI Windows 11 - a few thoughts about how AI will benefit Linux

.NET 11 arrives at .NET Conf 2026

Discord is rewriting its app in Rust and you're not going to believe what happens next
XBOX and gaming
The new XBOX Nano Controller comes with an awesome surprise

The new XBOX app is here on Windows 11, mobile, and cloud, and it's much faster

AutoSR comes to AMD-based Copilot+ PCs, ROG XBOX Ally gaming handhelds

You can preload GTA VI now

EA remasters classic games in Ultima and Wing Commander series, more

Nintendo: 6.49 million Switch units

Sony: 2.6 million PS5 units - now over 100 million units cumulatively
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Do it for free

App pick of the week: AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 34 min
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November 10Security Now 1104: The hole in OpenSSH
From hacked French refrigerators igniting fires to a massive OpenSSH authentication bug hiding in plain sight for a decade, this week's stories expose how lapses in basic security ripple into chaos—and why AI is now both a weapon and shield.
TA surprising announcement regarding SpinRite.

What is being "AI-pilled" and how does it happen.

OpenAI just released GPT-6 Cyber. What does that mean.

An irresponsible hacker published 30+ N-Able 0-days.

700 French refrigerators hacked. What's next.

Lots of listener feedback about the Cloudflare tunneling solution, Voyager 1, true hardware drive encryption, the random number 4 and the amount of debris in orbit

Then we look at a 10-year old serious SSH authentication bug (that's kinda wonderful)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1104-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 38 min
November 10MacBreak Weekly 1050: Building 19
Siri AI is now accessible for developers. The quality issues with the iPhone Duo may actually come down to bad parts. And the original iPod went on sale 25 years ago today.
Apple begins opening Siri AI to developers.

Apple CEO presses software chief to pursue more ambitious AI strategy.

iPhone Duo hinge issue down to bad parts, not bad design.

iPhone 18 Pro review: Camera quality and other upgrades mean I can't go back to the cheaper iPhones after this.

2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini.

The original iPod went on sale 25 years ago today.

About the illuminated Apple logo on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display.

Fake Homebrew installer linked to record-breaking $6.3 billion Binance heist.

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is getting a LEGO set.
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: Patrick Stewart's "A Christmas Carol"

Doc's Pick: RigMap

Matthew's Picks: Xbox Nano Controller, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, and the ESP32 powered Mac 128k

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko

Guests: Doc Rock and Matthew Cassinelli

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2 hr 5 min
October 20Security Now 1101: ECDSA's Curves Origins
An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and transparency in cybersecurity.
Another record smashing Patch Tuesday.

But again, all those updates were not without consequences.

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack.

A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack.

How to create your own known-safe crypto wallet.

Feedback about AI, coding and SpinRite from a listener.

What the reverse-engineering of the ECDSA curves means for security

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1101-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 32 min
October 18This Week in Tech 1106: The 10-Day Reply Guy
Apple's long-delayed kitchen device and Tesla's flying car spectacle make this panel one you won't want to miss! Data center delays, AI-driven job shakeups, and real-time debates on the real winners in broadband show that the tech landscape isn't just shifting; it's being rebuilt in real time.
The Tesla Roadster should go into production in 2028, but don't get your hopes up - Engadget

Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: RTX Spark in a straight-up beautiful Windows PC

America's $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray

Apple's HomeView Offers Tantalizing Preview of a Future Robotic Version

Apple blames 'extraordinary' demand as foldable iPhones sell out

F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office

Meta and Apple, Longtime Foes, Team Up to Put Open-Weight AI on Macs

Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What's next for human employees?

How to track Flock cameras using MapQuest

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Gina Smith and Jason Calacanis

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2 hr 52 min
October 14Intelligent Machines 892: Pants-based Benchmarks
GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

(11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

Muse Wonder

OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers

Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'

Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting

REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent

Cupertino

Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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2 hr 32 min
October 14Windows Weekly 1005: Nicely Frosted
Microsoft's latest Windows event left even diehard enthusiasts scratching their heads, with new AI-powered hardware and "RTX Spark" PCs getting top billing but little clear reason for anyone to buy them. If you're wondering what actually matters in the world of AI PCs. or why no one can explain it, you're not alone.
Windows
We need to talk about last week's Windows event... what the heck was this?

Lots of Windows, lots of Surface, a little bit of ecosystem, confusing local AI story, no major new end user features that are unique to RTX Spark, a weird Osborne Effect for RTX Spark, and a stunning lack of self-awareness combine for one of the weirder Microsoft events in memory

The RTX Spark era begins this week. How is this different from Copilot+ PC?

Patch Tuesday is here and it's a big milestone

Minor changes for 24H2, 25H2, 26H2

Big changes for 26H1

This is the first Patch Tuesday for 26H2, the last one for 24H2 (Home, Pro)

1400+ security fixes, a new record(!!) - This is almost 15x the normal number of patches

ASUS allows reviewers to show unboxing, so here's the RTX Spark-based ASUS ProArt P16

PC market fell over 20 percent in Q3 as component crisis takes its toll

Googlebooks suck, and everyone is finally noticing what I reported last week. But there is another, and it's an unexpected option

Tiny11 Builder gets a major update with a WinUI makeover
AI/dev
This has been the most exciting week in AI advances since this era kicked off in February 2023

ArtCraft releases impressive clones of the top 7 Adobe Creative Cloud apps

ArtCraft is also working at replacing Microsoft Office, with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint clones so far - Also clones of AutoCAD and Audacity(?)/audio editor

Google Playground lets anyone create a game that you can share with anyone

Google AI Studio now lets anyone vibe-code Android and web apps, and you will soon be able to put them in the Google Play Store

Big changes to Microsoft 365 for consumers - Family/Premium loses 1 TB per user, goes to a single pool of 2 TB, but all users now share the same Copilot rights

Apple makes a long-overdue smart home push thanks to Siri AI finally making sense - New HomeView smart display is the star

.NET 11 heads to the finish line
XBOX and gaming
XBOX creates an XP division for non-game entertainment. They should have called it XBOX One, cough

Asha Sharma creates XBOX LABS team to explore how vibe coding changes gaming

Microsoft announces an XBOX Nano Controller

Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 in January

GTA VI coming to the PC in early 2027

Epic Games vibe-coded its new launcher, and it's available in preview for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Just make it

App pick of the week: ArtCraft for the win

RunAs Radio this week: Choosing Tools in M365 with Joy Apple

Brown liquor pick of the week: Bunnahabhain 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 53 min
October 13Security Now 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs
Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments.
Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing.

Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end?

What alternative AI technologies are underway?

Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source.

South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks.

Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks.

For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding.

A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween.

Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI.

We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1100-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 50 min

About 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 all.