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April 29Intelligent Machines 868: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea
Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.
Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth

Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?

OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model

OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft

Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'

Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared

OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone

Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company

Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

Generative AI vegetarianism

To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch

* Chloe vs. History

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch

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Felvidek

Amazon's AI product podcasts

64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber

Timmy's rescue

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nirav Patel

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2 hr 38 min
April 29Windows Weekly 981: Semi-Sophisticated
This episode dives into early MS-DOS/PC-DOS source code, Snapdragon X2 gaming, and the "We are Xbox" messaging. Plus, Paul details 2 big changes in the Windows Insider Program. The latest PowerToys adds 2 useful new utilities and many improvements. And a TWiT listener asked about buying Windows 11 on Arm to virtualize it on a Mac. You're not going to believe what happened next.
Windows
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows Update

Microsoft announces Windows Insider Program changes, with Experimental channel

Hands-on with both predictably shows some nice improvements

Hands-on with Snapdragon X2 gaming - more wins, but still some losses

Microsoft open sources some of the earliest MS-DOS source code and related materials

Intel loses $3.7 billion and Wall Street could not be happier. WTF is happening - Paul has a theory and its called collusion
AI
Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership again and wait for it...

OpenAI immediately signs on with AWS

Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agentic AI features

Copilot in Outlook can manage your inbox and calendar, but seriously stop using Outloook

GitHub Copilot's switch to usage-based billing starts June 1

OpenAI is reportedly working on a phone because of course it is

Adobe Firefly AI Assistant is now available in preview

And then Anthropic goes deeper into the creator market
Xbox and gaming
Microsoft Gaming is being (re)rebranded to Xbox!

New Xbox leadership can't stop explaining its plans and it's glorious

Microsoft still plans a mobile game store, waiting on Apple to stop being so f'ing terrible

Valve's Steam Controller will cost $99 and launches next week
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Windows licenses, $, and you

App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.99

RunAs Radio this week: M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver

Brown liquor pick of the week: Reifel Rye

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 44 min
April 28Security Now 1076: FAST16.SYS
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.
Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.

Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.

Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.

GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.

Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.

A bunch of terrific listener feedback.

Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 36 min
April 28MacBreak Weekly 1022: Ultra Expensive
The panel can't stop talking about John Ternus becoming the next Apple CEO! Is the iPhone Ultra the official name of Apple's folding iPhone? Apple's product timeline for 2026 and beyond. And Apple's Q2 2026 earnings report is this Thursday, and Jason will be ready with the charts!
Time to serve some delicious claim chowder regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO transition.

Apple's 'Ultra' roadmap confirmed: iPhone, MacBook, and more on the way.

OpenAI set to redefine smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare key to its AI agent phone.

iPhone 18's new specs might bring subtle regressions to cut costs.

M6 MacBook Pro: Six new features coming later this year.

Apple taps Samsung for 20th-anniversary iPhone's quad-curved display.

Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote.

What to expect from Apple's Q2 2026 earnings on April 30.

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones.

New Mac malware goes straight for developer keys.

NASA shares iPhone video capturing Earthshine from Orion during Artemis II.

Pluribus' & 'Come See Me In The Good Light' win Peabody awards for Apple TV.
Picks of the Week
Leo's Pick: Oversight

Christina's Pick: PowerPhotos

Andy's Picks: Free Comic Book Day 2026 & The Outer Limits Comic Book Store

Jason's Pick: TextSniper

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

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2 hr 21 min
April 26This Week in Tech 1081: That's Miasma
Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.
Toyota Woven City

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today

Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model

China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims

What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'

Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty

Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment

The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet

To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham

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2 hr 33 min
April 22Intelligent Machines 867: The Ketchup Effect
Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.
CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell

Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion

Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI

Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War

AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too

Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Depths of Wikipedia

GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

Is Your Site Agent-Ready?

Jeff's Gemini happy ending

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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2 hr 46 min
April 22Windows Weekly 980: Running Outta Tolkiens
AI is democratizing the making of things, from bespoke/custom apps to websites, designs of all kinds, and everything else you might imagine. It's a new world, and it's time to create. Plus, Helium is a new Chromium-based web browser that's completely open source, lightweight, secure, and private. There's a native version for Windows 11 on Arm, too. Also, Firefox 150 arrives with over 270 security fixes!
Windows 11
Reports of a Recall security vulnerability are, once again, bogus, Microsoft says

New builds on all channels, still on the old system

Xbox Mode is now available in all channels

Release Preview shows us the May Patch Tuesday updates: Xbox Mode, File Explorer improvements, Haptic improvements, Drop Tray renaming, Agents on the Taskbar

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x - Snapdragon X2 Elite, 14-inch display impressions

Lenovo IdeaPad 5x - Snapdragon X2 Plus, 15.3-inch display impressions
Microsoft 365, Surface, more
OneDrive now supports Markdown natively

New Surface PCs with Intel chips coming soon

Microsoft is making changes to its Rewards program
AI
GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing in a sign of the true cost of AI

Claude Design democratizes visual design on the heels of Claude Opus 4.7

OpenAI Codex moves into productivity

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0

Chrome AI Mode gets a big update

Mozilla announces Thunderbolt, sovereign AI for businesses

Google brings vibe coding to Android apps with Android CLI
Xbox and gaming
Microsoft drops Xbox Game Pass prices (!), but also drops Call of Duty from Day One

Plus, Xbox teases a Game Pass Discord perk

More Game Pass titles for April: Kiln, Vampire Crawlers, more

Xbox April Update is here with that Quick Resume feature we all want

There's an ID@Xbox event on April 23 to highlight indie games

Xbox is selling Forza Horizon 6 limited edition controller and headsets

Starfield is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2

A Call of Duty movie will finally arrive in 2028

Try out the Modern Warfare remake on Game Pass, it's a reminder of COD's gritty past

PS5 Digital is down to its $399 launch price temporarily
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Just make it

App pick of the week: Helium

RunAs Radio this week: The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus

Brown liquor pick of the week: Ned Australian Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 44 min
April 21Security Now 1075: Yes. Exactly.
Security leaders warn the era of AI-driven bug hunting has arrived, with Mythos uncovering hundreds of overlooked vulnerabilities in code bases as trusted as Firefox. Are defenders ready for the avalanche of exploits and the frantic race to patch?
A disgruntled developer discloses multiple Windows 0-days.

Microsoft purchases its own bugs in massive campaign.

VeraCrypt & Wireshark suddenly lost their dev accounts.

A serious problem with re-captured domain names.

How might AI help to secure open source repositories.

A listener wonders what we thought of Project Hail Mary.

Cyber security professionals tell us What Mythos Means

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1075-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 41 min
April 21MacBreak Weekly 1021: Too Long in the Monkey House
John Turnus is officially the next Apple CEO! Tim Cook will step down on September 1st, 2026, and will become the executive chairman of the Apple board. What can we expect with Turnus' reign as Apple CEO? Some new features are coming in iOS 27. And some rumors of the color lineup for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro.
Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman — John Ternus to become Apple CEO.

Johny Srouji named Apple's Chief Hardware Officer.

Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?

Apple C.E.O.s through the years: From Michael Scott (not that one) to John Ternus.

Apple's Revamped Siri Interface in iOS 27 Is Hidden in WWDC Teaser.

Apple leaks four iOS 27 features, including overdue Wallet upgrade.

Manufacturing started for all-new iPhone 18 Pro camera feature.

iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture camera enters production.

Apple says Jon Prosser has only partially complied with subpoenas in iOS 26 leak case.

Unless you reboot every once in a while, your Mac will get kicked offline every 49 days.

Video shows how to steal $10,000 from locked iPhone in controlled setting.

Pluribus season 2 just got an exciting release timing update.

Postponed Apple TV series 'The Savant' will finally be released this summer.

Chance Miller: 'Netflix ruined its Apple TV app by switching to a custom video player'.

Paul McCartney shares behind-the-scenes video of Apple Park concert.

RIP John Martellaro
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: Pica

Andy's Pick: Joyce DiDonato Masterclasses at Carnegie Hall

Jason's Pick: Logitech Muse

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

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2 hr 19 min
April 19This Week in Tech 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords
As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI

AI anxiety is turning volatile

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.

Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules

Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One

Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case

Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights

What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?

TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company

Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

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Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 49 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.