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May 27Intelligent Machines 872: Infinite Jeffs
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?
The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity

Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car

Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search

There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice

White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI

Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing

Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order

I'm tired of talking to AI

In Memoriam: Don Newhouse
Picks of the Week:
KMart Muzak

Infinite Jeffs

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rick Sammon

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2 hr 33 min
May 27Windows Weekly 985: Putting the Mental in Experimental
Paul has been testing various Linux distributions and other Windows alternatives for months as part of a Switcher series. The zen of Linux can mostly apply to Windows, too: Install and manage software with package managers, and embrace the command line, especially. And if you're going to use a local account, at least be smart about it. Also, Vivaldi 8.0 looks awesome and appears to deliver what Firefox is promising with its Nova UI. Plus, Discord has a native app for Windows 11 on Arm now.
Windows
Week D arrives with a surprise: 24H2/26H1 are aligned and getting the same new features

Shared audio with BT LE, multi-app camera support, many improvements - but the big deal may be the performance and reliability improvements across the board

This is the next Patch Tuesday, today

Friday builds - new accessibility features in Experimental and Beta, more

Microsoft CMO Yusuf Mehdi to leave company after an astonishing 35-year run - started in Windows, but with IE, Bing & MSN, Interactive Entertainment (Xbox), Windows and Devices, and then a SLT position before the end. Incredible run. Paul has three milestones and one throughline to share.

Lenovo revenues surge 27 percent to $21.6 billion

NVIDIA revenues really surged 85 percent to $81.6 billion
AI/dev
Google adds Google Drive sync to NotebookLM, and moves preferred sources into AI Mode and AI Overviews

Saying no to AI: DuckDuckGo usage surges in the wake of Google I/O's AI tsunami

OpenAI releases ChatGPT plugin for PowerPoint

.NET MAUI to get Material You support for Android in .NET 10

Follow-up on last week's vibe coding adventures: Paul talked about this last week, but a lot has happened since then. The Android app creation capability in Google AI Studio is live. A few thoughts on vibe coding with Android Studio, Claude Code, and more
Xbox and gaming
XBOX—and, yes, it's XBOX now—has an official merchandise store to go alongside all its other official merchandise stores

The Steam Deck is back in stock! Also, it's 40 percent more expensive
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Understanding the zen of Linux can help a Windows user too

App pick of the week: A grab-bag of apps for Windows

RunAs Radio this week: Team Productivity using Loop with Karinne Bessette

Brown liquor pick of the week: John Sleeman & Sons Rye Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 36 min
May 26Security Now 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage.
Cisco meets Mythos

Can the aging CVE system survive AI

Patch deployment latency in the AI age

MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation

Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities

Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection

Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor

GitHub hacked - all of its source code exfiltrated

Russia is using very old Western software

Why to get a no-charge AI chatbot account

New Sci-Fi on Netflix

What we learn from Mozilla's use of Mythos

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 45 min
May 26MacBreak Weekly 1026: Double-Wide Mode
A slow week in Apple news as we wait for WWDC to begin on Monday, June 8th! Apple is seeking a Supreme Court review of the Epic Games case. Apple unveils new accessibility features utilizing Apple Intelligence. And Apple TV used an iPhone 17 Pro to broadcast a MLS match!
Apple's Watch and health efforts need reboot to rival new wearables.

Apple seeks Supreme Court review of contempt finding and injunction scope in Epic Games case.

Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence.

iOS 27 AI voice control: What it tells us about the Siri revamp.

Real Madrid immersive documentary on Apple Vision Pro.

Apple TV to broadcast first major professional live sporting event shot entirely on iPhone 17 Pro.
Picks of the Week
Leo's Pick: Insta360 Mic Pro

Jason's Picks: Cotypist

Andy's Pick: BBEdit 16

Christina's Pick: Hacks TV Series

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

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2 hr 19 min
May 24This Week in Tech 1085: Waiting In Line With Sam
Google is rewriting the rules of search, CBS News Radio just died after 99 years, and billionaires now own the newsrooms. This episode dives into what happens when technology giants tighten their grip on how we get information.
Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

Hands-On With All of Google's New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch show

U.S. Invests $2 Billion and Takes Stake in Quantum Firms

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman

GM Driver Data Privacy Lawsuit: California Fines GM $12.75 Million

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

'Creepy' Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn't Actually Work, FTC Says

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and Jacob Ward

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2 hr 54 min
May 20Intelligent Machines 871: CTRL-F Techno King
Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.
Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter

Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter

SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget

Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo

(21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X

Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup

Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers

Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute

We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing

'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize

Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake

Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything

Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism

The great digital media valuation collapse

Sperm racing

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Frederic Rivain

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2 hr 54 min
May 20Windows Weekly 984: For Entertainment Purposes Only
Windows Insider Program
Release Preview channel updates (including 26H1 for the first time? - A preview of the June Patch Tuesday updates - Shared audio, NPU usage in

Task Manager, multi-app camera support, Magnifier improvements.

Taskbar updates come to Insiders! Also in Canary, weʼre throwing them a bone this time.
Enshittification remedies all around
Microsoft just held a WinHEC for the first time since 2018 and thereʼs a new Windows Driver Initiative!

Microsoft will soon let us remap Copilot key to Right Ctrl, which is what it was in the first place.

A Linux privacy nut YouTuber confuses privacy and security and doesnʼt understand Windows 11 so...

... Paul wrote a complete guide to the local account de-Microsoft experience in Windows 11

Microsoft Edge will stop loading all passwords into clear text on startup like a big boy browser.
Hardware
Paul came home to an ASUS Zenbook A16 and ohmygodohmygodohmygod
Surface
Microsoft finally revs Surface Laptop and Surface Pro for Business, with Intel chips and VERY high prices.

Snapdragon X2 variants in late 2026 because of supply issues wa-waa-waaaaa.
AI
MDASH is Microsoftʼs answer to Anthropic Mythos, in-house only.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are both terrible but a jury decided against Muskʼs frivolous lawsuit.

OpenAI and Apple might head to court over Siri promises

OpenAI Codex is on mobile via the ChatGPT app

Google unleashes an AI tsunami at Google IO this week. A few relevant takeaways:
Overview of the major announcements
Google advances Android as a developer platform

Chrome is turning into a proactive assistant

Google AI subscriptions are an incredible value

Related: The Gemini Intelligence feature for Googlebooks and more has steep hardware requirements - 12 GB of RAM, flagship SoC So Pixel 10 series/Galaxy S26 series and newer only etc.

Just a reminder that Microsoft makes a Linux distribution ... for Azure specifically
More dev
WWDC schedule is up for June 8 opening day

Build 2026 kicks off June 2 in SFO

After another boring .NET 11 preview release, we finally get our first look at a major change: MAUI is switching from the Mono runtime to the CoreCLR runtime.

And we should pause for a moment to remember S "Soma" Somasegar, who sadly passed away this week.
Xbox and Gaming
Next Xbox Elite controller leaks and it is glorious
Related: An Xbox Cloud-Connected controller leaks too and it is less than glorious.
Forza Horizon 6 is here, and itʼs on Game Pass on Day One.
Be sure to read Laurentʼs detailed review.
Haters gonna keep hating: Fans want Xbox exclusives because their heads are still in the sand.
Sony is allegedly returning to this model for single player experiences

Related: Sony raises prices on PS Plus

Fortnite comes back to the Apple App Store worldwide *excluding Australia for some reason.
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Google AI Studio.

Vibe-code your next app with this incredible free tool.

Related: A look at Markdown editors.
App pick of the week: DeskScapes 2026
Stardock DeskScapes 2026 is normally $9.99 but it will cost just $6.99 during the launch period.

Also: Firefox 151 is a big update on desktop and mobile, the latter gets the AI kill switch

RunAs Radio this week: UEFI Secure Boot with Richard Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Daftmill Winter Batch Release

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/984

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 45 min
May 19Security Now 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity.
Microsoft rethinks Edge's "intended behavior" after it gets press.

Chaotic Eclipse hacker strikes again with a Bitlocker bypass.

Google's threat analysis group documents malicious AI use.

Canada hasn't learned the lessons of the EU and the UK.

AI chatbots may be far more addictive than social media.

Project: Hail Mary now available to stream.

An apparently-serious zero-point quantum vacuum energy source.

A bit of listener feedback.

OpenAI's & Microsoft's vulnerability discovery systems

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1079-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 52 min
May 19MacBreak Weekly 1025: Below the Plimsoll Line
How will Apple follow up on any AI announcements made at WWDC later in June, after Google held its Google I/O keynote? Some leaks of iOS 27's new design could be exciting for a lot of users. And the iPhone 17 is driving Apple's market share within the US, as the overall US smartphone market has declined.
Apple's new ChatGPT-like Siri App will have auto-deleting chats.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn't be the first partner to feel burned.

Apple explores ways to welcome AI agents in the App Store.

The Siri for families Apple will never build.

iOS 27's new design leak sounds a lot like what I've been wanting most.

iPhone 17 keeps driving Apple marketshare, as US smartphone sales contract.

iPhone Ultra is coming: Six new features in Apple's high-end model.

Apple's security has been tough to crack. Mythos helped find a way in.

Epic Games' 'Fortnite' returns to App Stores worldwide.

Meta launches Instants, a new iPhone app and Instagram feature for ephemeral sharing.

Spotify adopting Apple's new video podcast tech for easier cross-platform publishing
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: Sentinel

Leo's Pick: RetroWin

Andy's Pick: Rechargeable Light Bulb

Jason's Pick: Mister Plimsoll

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

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1 hr 59 min
May 17This Week in Tech 1084: Don't Overcook the Asparagus
Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China's pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US might need a new playbook to keep up.
Trump and the CEOs go to China

NVIDIA CEO joins Trump in China despite 'awkward' politics

US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers

The Class of 2026 is cooked

Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race

Google Weighs Using SpaceX to Launch Orbital Data Centers

What smart people are saying about OpenAI's new $10 billion company to help businesses deploy AI

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Amy Webb

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2 hr 59 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.