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March 18Windows Weekly 975: A Bubble of Knowledge
There's an ongoing narrative that Windows is worse than ever today and people are leaving in droves. Paul does not see that, and will simply point to Windows 8 and remind folks that it can be (and was) worse. Also, PowerToys 0.98 adds a major new feature to Command Palette, big changes to Keyboard Manager and CursorWrap, and about 100 other updates. This is a big one. Plus, Mozilla Firefox is staging a comeback and may be worth another look.
Windows
Rajesh Jha is retiring and Microsoft is reorging its Experiences + Devices team

Release Preview: A peek at next week's Week D update (and April's Patch Tuesday) shows we're getting improvements to Narrator, Settings, Smart App Control, Pen settings, Display, File Explorer, and the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE). The trend continues!

New Canary, Dev, and Beta builds - Nothing new in Canary. Dev/Beta: Drag Tray is being renamed to Drop Tray, you can change the user folder name during Setup, Restore points are getting a modern update finally

Intel goes nuts with new "Arrow Lake refresh" processors; these are not Copilot+ PC capable and it's unclear what the Panther Lake comparison looks like

IDC now expects 11.3 percent decline in PC market in 2026, 7.6 percent decline for tablets
AI
Microsoft may sue OpenAI for contract breach - the best Microsoft divorce since IBM

Major reorg in Microsoft's AI businesses

Former Snap exec in charge of consolidated Copilot offerings across consumer and commercial

Mustafa Suleyman to focus on Microsoft's foundational models

There has been a lot of retiring and a lot of outside hires for top-level executive positions in Microsoft over the past year or more. Curious.

Rumors vs. reality in Microsoft scaling back AI ambitions in Windows

Rumor: Microsoft is backtracking on some Copilot features

Reality: Microsoft is not backtracking on its AI ambitions, it's just going to try to do a better job with branding and positioning

Microsoft launches Copilot Health in the U.S.

Google Personal Intelligence ships in the U.S.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 mini and nano models

GPT-5 mini is available as a reasoning model on Duck.ai
Xbox and gaming
Rumor vs. reality in Xbox strategy

Rumor: Microsoft removed "This is an Xbox" messaging from website so it must be focusing on consoles again

Reality: Literally nothing has changed

Xbox Insiders is testing per-game Quick Resume toggle

Also more groups on Home, custom colors, profile badges in guide

Big half month for Game Pass, with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, more coming

Starfield is coming to PS5 on April 7

NVIDIA launches DLSS 5, changes existing games, people are freaking out
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: The grass is always greener

App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.98

RunAs Radio this week: Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah

Brown liquor pick of the week: Teeling Small Batch Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 18 min
March 17Security Now 1070: CISA's Free Internet Scanning
Meta quietly ditches encryption for Instagram chats while TikTok also backpedals on privacy, shaking up assumptions about how much big tech really values your secrets. Meanwhile, Steve Gibson reveals why CISA's free government security scans are an absolute must for businesses—plus what he learned when GRC took the plunge.
The Security Now "Caption That Photo" contest.

A mega social media company says "no" to strong encryption.

WhatsApp to give parents more control,

Consumer bandwidth proxying is becoming a big deal.

Meta buys the Moltbook duo.

The EU gives up and settles upon the status quo.

When a ransomware negotiation is not what it seems.

CISA compels federal agencies to submit their logs.

Is that a VPN in your pocket or something more malicious.

Be careful what you download, thinking it's AI.

A super-clever and super-simple A/V scanner bypass.

Will AI write code for me?

Another listener discovers the Joy of AI.

Steve's CISA Internet scanning experience

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1070-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 47 min
March 17MacBreak Weekly 1016: An Orca, a Trombone, and a Treasure Chest
Someone is appearing on Jeopardy this week... Apple announces the AirPods Max 2. The MacBook Neo is its most repairable MacBook in 14 years. And are new colors coming to the next-gen iMacs later this year?
I'll take 'beach reading' for $1000, Ken.

Apple introduces AirPods Max 2.

2026 Apple Studio Display review: The smallest of upgrades.

MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook in 14 years.

Apple paying a premium to move iPhone production outside China as it hits milestone.

Should keycaps use text or glyphs for delete, return, tab, caps lock, and shift?

macOS Tahoe 26.4 beta 4, iOS 26.4 beta 4, and iPadOS 26.4 beta 4 distributions highlight nine upcoming emoji characters.

Rumor: Apple to debut "new colors" for next-gen iMacs this year.

Apple's Liquid Glass interface isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Gone (Almost) Phishin'.

Mac on-screen camera indicator light.

How to survive the loss of Rosetta.

First footage shows X-Plane 12 on Vision Pro, including an ARKit trick in action.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'F1: the Movie' is now an Oscar-winning hit.

Severance season 3 gets timing update, new characters teased.
Picks of the Week
Leo's Pick: Lil Finder 5K Wallpapers

Christina's Pick: 3D Print Lil' Finder Guy

Andy's Pick: Stickies for Mac

Jason's Pick: Delcom USB HID Handheld Programmable Button Switch

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

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2 hr 36 min
March 15This Week in Tech 1075: The Commonwealth Club
From "gainfully employed robots" to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge.
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery

U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story)

TerraPower gets permit to build reactor

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer

YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Richard Campbell, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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2 hr 56 min
March 11Intelligent Machines 861: We Have Computer At Home
Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.
OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns

ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal

BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks

OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot

OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again

OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Where did you think the training data was coming from?

You could be an influencer without even realizing it

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more

William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company

ET Fall Preview 1994

Payphone Go

This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day

Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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3 hr 13 min
March 11Windows Weekly 974: DIY Crocs
From bug-busting AI that's transforming Firefox to personal coding breakthroughs, the team breaks down how practical applications are cutting through skepticism and reshaping developer workflows. Plus, hear why lighter Patch Tuesdays are refreshing from time to time!
Windows 11
Patch Tuesday's familiar list of updates: Network speed test, Camera tilt and pan controls, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP support for desktop wallpaper, Emoji 16.0, etc.

It's been a light year so far for Patch Tuesday features - that's a good thing

New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta late last week. Canary is nothing, Dev/Beta get Administrator Protection, Drag Tray refinements, File Explorer improvements, and fixes

Android 16 QPR3 brings Desktop Mode to Android devices - and a hands-on with Pixel phones and tablets shows the way forward for Android-based laptops later this year

Intel has new gaming processors for creators and gamers and they look excellent and are inexpensive
AI and dev
Copilot Cowork is literally Claude Cowork in Microsoft 365 - "Wave 3" for Microsoft 365 Copilot begins with a lot of agentic features, in private preview at first

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive get big Gemini updates for consumers and Workspace customers

Mozilla partners with Anthropic to use AI to find bugs, and it's paying off nicely

Visual Studio Code moves to a weekly update schedule

The .NET 11 Preview 2 is here
Xbox and gaming
Microsoft starts talking up next Xbox console! It's called Project Helix and, yes, it will run Windows games

New Xbox Mode is on the way

Project Helix dev kits to game makers in 2027

Satya Nadella explains why he/Microsoft are "long" on gaming

Gaming is a core identity for Microsoft alongside platforms, developers, and knowledge workers
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Nostalgia with a purpose

App pick of the week: Stardock Clairvoyance

RunAs Radio this week: SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward

Brown liquor pick of the week: Canadian Centennial Rye Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 47 min
March 10Security Now 1069: You can't hide from LLMs
Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at scale, challenging everything we thought we knew about internet privacy.
Anthropic & Mozilla improve Firefox's security.

Apple & Google begin testing cross-platform RCS encryption.

Ubuntu's SUDO starts echoing asterisks.

Inviting a web proxy into your home.

Apple devices cleared by Germany for NATO's use.

A serious remote takeover of OpenClaw.

TokTok won't encrypt messaging for visibility.

Microsoft bans the term "Microslop" on Discord.

Lot's of great listener feedback.

LLMs could make Orwell's 1984 seem optimistic.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1069-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 44 min
March 10MacBreak Weekly 1015: Who Shot Apple Intelligence?
Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, the company's foray into a low-cost laptop. The iPhone Fold's supposed design has leaked through 3D CAD rendering files. And a toolkit for hacking iPhones has leaked.
18 years later, Apple ships a $599 computer.

Apple's TikTok ads for the MacBook Neo are the right kind of weird.

Apple creates adorable little Finder guy to promote its adorable little Mac.

The new Apple begins to emerge.

Apple 'Ultra' products expansion is up next after MacBook Neo launch.

iPhone Fold design leaks in purported 3D CAD rendering files.

Apple's 'HomePad' gets launch timing update via leaker.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage.

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report.

Apple ran a test on the App Store to see if AI could improve search result rankings.

Apple geoblocking downloads of ByteDance-owned apps in the US.

A toolkit for hacking iPhones, possibly created for the U.S. Government, has leaked.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'Apple' Review: Reinvention Incorporated.
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: What's Your JND Game

Andy's Pick: Kids, Wait Till You Hear This

Jason's Pick: Cloth Pro Max

Leo's Pick: Art Bits from HyperCard

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

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2 hr 30 min
March 08This Week in Tech 1074: Chicken Mating Harnesses
Between copyright-free AI art, government blacklists, and data brokers run amok, this episode spotlights the fierce new battles for privacy, agency, and control in our digital lives. Plus, hear Cory Doctorow break down why the AI gold rush may be headed for a colossal crash.
Pentagon Officially Tells Anthropic It Is a Supply Chain Risk

Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic AI from all government work

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT user base surges 350% in 18 months as it nears 1 billion weekly active users

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after the Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Alphabet Grants Sundar Pichai Stock Awards Worth Up to $686 Million

Google vs Epic Games ends with Android app stores, lower fees

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores - Slashdot

Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games

Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS - Slashdot

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

Anne Wojcicki's Plan to Revive 23andMe: Rich Donors, Improved Tests—and Maybe Even MAHA

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Joey de Villa and Cory Doctorow

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3 hr 7 min
March 05Security Now 1068: The Call Is Coming From Inside the House
Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte host a special episode of Security Now live from ThreatLocker's Zero Trust World 2026 in Orlando, Florida.

The final frontier of security is internal. Today, we have the tools, techniques and technologies to thwart attacks originating from outside our perimeter. We're now good at protecting our borders. But major high profile breaches occurring over the past several years have revealed that insufficient attention has been given to the security of our internal systems and networks. Today's greatest security weaknesses result from decades of system design, deployment and policy that have placed far too much trust on the conduct of those on the inside, behind our borders. Whether deliberate, inadvertent, or externally penetrating, the greatest challenge we now face is that of designing and deploying our internal security with strict adherence to the principles of least privilege and zero trust.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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52 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.