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March 03Security Now 1067: KongTuke's CrashFix
A crafty new breed of social engineering attack is tricking users into launching malware straight from their clipboard, exposing a fresh vulnerability in Windows that even tech pros could fall for. Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson break down how the latest ClickFix and CrashFix exploits are outsmarting traditional defenses.
The lowdown on last week's "no turn" picture of the week.

Is an AI-driven hacking campaign a big deal now.

Clause used in multiple Mexican government attacks.

Apple continues to be confronted with age restrictions.

COPPA needs an exception to allow age collection.

Meta swamps law enforcement with AI-slop CSAM reports.

Roskomnadzor has been busy blocking VPNs. Guess how many.

The UK tries to report their self-scanning success.

Remember that hacker who extorted the psychotherapy patients.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is actively recruiting women.

Cisco lands another breathtakingly rare 10.0 CVSS.

VulnCheck's report on 2025 vulnerabilities and exploits.

Steve discovers a fabulous $72 Hardware Security Module.

A listener shares an interesting AI service discovery.

The very potent "ClickFix" exploit evolves

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1067-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 54 min
March 01This Week in Tech 1073: Broetry in Motion
Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon pits tech ethics against government demands, raising explosive questions about AI's role in surveillance and weaponry. If you care about who controls the future of artificial intelligence, this episode is a must-listen.
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight

The whole thing was a scam

OpenAI allows NSA to use GPT for surveilling Americans

Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection

Layoffs at Block

Crypto exchange Gemini plans to lay off up to 200 staff, exit Europe, and Australia

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 \ Anthropic

Keep Android Open

Colorado moves age checks from websites to operating systems | Biometric Update

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

New Apple product launch starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms

Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked: The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4 and more

Here's how the new Samsung Galaxy S26 compares with last year's S25

Hacked Prayer App Sends 'Surrender' Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes

The Big One: The cyberattack scenarios that keep officials up at night

CISA replaces acting director after a bumbling year on the job

New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found

Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows | TechCrunch

Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'

Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service - Slashdot

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Molly White, Owen Thomas, and Harry McCracken

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2 hr 55 min
February 25Intelligent Machines 859: What's Behind the Fox?
What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.
Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight

Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

My first vibe coding project!

Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera

ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics

"Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"

Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out

Claude Remote-Control

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?

AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot

Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself

Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women

It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke

I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak

This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby

Famous Signatures Through History

Finally got a Fujifilm!

I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay

Jeff's new friends

How far back in time can you understand English?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeff Atwood

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3 hr 6 min
February 25Windows Weekly 972: I'm A Tolkien Scholar
Just last week, we asked about Phil Spencer and why he's been so quiet lately. Now we know why! Also, OneDrive for the Mac is finally going to look like it belongs on the Mac. And Google Chrome finally picks up a split view like the rest of the planet, plus a few other new features.
PHIL SPENCER OUT AT XBOX
Phil Spencer has retired from Microsoft and his heir-apparent, Sarah Bond, left Microsoft as well

Report details the Xbox reorg

Ex-Xbox executive issues an old guy shouting at sky assessment

New Microsoft Gaming CEO discusses "return to Xbox"

Hot-take: This person seems unqualified to run Xbox/MS Gaming, but let's give her a chance

Alternative hot-take: She is literally here to wind down this business, which makes no sense... unless there's a spin-off
Windows
WSJ report sheds some light, and adds a lot of confusion, to Nvidia's Windows PC plans

Week D arrived on time this month

Preview of March Patch Tuesday updates

Network speed test, pan and tilt in Camera settings, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP background image support, Emoji 16.0

And you thought the Canary channel was weird already

New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta. Canary gets features we already saw elsewhere, Dev and Beta get context menu, settings, and Taskbar improvements

Paul has published (an incomplete version of) De-Enshittify Windows 11

De-enshittifying Copilot and AI is doable but not yet automated

What about the alternatives?

Next step: Security and Apps chapters

HP revenues up 6.9 percent to $14.4 billion but RAM warning is more dire than expected

Apple to add multitouch to MacBook Pro lineup in late 2026. Oh the irony
AI
Xbox February update brings 1440p streaming to Xbox consoles, updates for Xbox ROG Ally, more

Xbox app is delivering post-game recaps on Windows 11 for Insiders

EA had the most game downloads on PC and console in 2025, thanks to having the three most popular AAA games of the year (BF6, EA Sports FC 25, and EA Sports FC 26). Microsoft was number two, followed by Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Sony. Fortnite is somehow still the biggest game overall on console, and Counter-Strike 2 (!!!!) is the biggest on PC. 20 million Fortnite players on PS, 15 million on Xbox
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: OneDrive for the Mac

App pick of the week: Google Chrome

RunAs Radio this week: SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan

Brown liquor pick of the week: Sons of Vancouver Wheated Rye Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 28 min
February 24Security Now 1066: Password Leakage
ETH Zurich's deep-dive into the world's top password managers exposes how feature overload and legacy design obscure real security flaws, forcing a rethink of what "zero knowledge" actually means for your vault. Learn why recent fixes matter—and why open source may be your safest bet.
CA's warn us to urgently prepare for the inevitable.

Three U.S. states attempt to ban 3D printed firearms.

Denied ransom, ShinyHunters leaks 967,000 personal details.

"Billions" of U.S. social security numbers leaked.

Is Apple planning to add cameras to three new gadgets.

No more security fixes for Firefox on Windows 7 & 8.

Russia blocks the official Linux kernel site they need.

Will the U.S."freedom.gov" site post EU blocked content.

LLM's will offer secure passwords. Do Not Use Them.

As predicted, the "ClickFix" attack strategy takes over.

A listener believes his computer is compromised.

How could three popular password managers get things wrong.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1066-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 51 min
February 24MacBreak Weekly 1013: Boopgate
Welcome, Christina Warren, to the MacBreak Weekly panel! Looking back at Steve Jobs and what would have been his 71st birthday. Jason Snell unveils the Six Colors report card. And Apple plans to manufacture Mac Minis in Houston.
Remembering Steve Jobs on his 71st birthday.

Steve Jobs Archive releases "Letters to a Young Creator" featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and more.

David Pogue shares first look at upcoming "Apple: The First 50 Years" book.

Apple's next big thing is a push into visual artificial intelligence.

The Six Colors report card.

The evil LeapFrog tablet in Toy Story 5 appears to be running the macOS window manager.

Disneyland's "MuppetVision 3D" will be released on the Apple Vision Pro. Here's why Brian Henson is okay with it.

Apple plans to manufacture Mac Mini in Houston.

iPhone satellite features helped Lake Tahoe avalanche survivors get rescued.

Apple and Google employees customized their own Tudor watches. Now they're up for sale.

PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet.
Picks of the Week
Christina's Pick: Updatest

Andy's Pick: Acme Weather

Jason's Pick: macOS 26 Tahoe

Leo's Pick: Thaw

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

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2 hr 44 min
February 22This Week in Tech 1072: The Devil's Advocate
What do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache.
Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot

Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20

Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving

Tucson Daily Brief

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud

Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters

The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth

A flood of cheap used EVs is coming

Signal guide for everyday folks

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on

You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack

Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware

Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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3 hr 4 min
February 18Intelligent Machines 858: The Itinerant Salt Miner from Buffalo
OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499

Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3

Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words

I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.

Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs

AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion

Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story

Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories

Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting

DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

ai;dr

I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal

Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent

Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

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2 hr 52 min
February 18Windows Weekly 971: Texas English
Microsoft might finally give power users what they've been demanding: the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar wherever they want. Plus, 3 major new chapters in Paul's next book, and a strange pick that solves his big issue with Windows Spotlight.
Windows 11
Potentially good news for the 13 people who want to move the Taskbar to a different screen side

Beta (but not Dev) with one new "feature"

Release Preview for 24H2/25H2 with emoji 16.0, QMR improvements, network speed test, pan and tilt controls for compatible cameras, widgets improvements, more

Lenovo revenues up 18% to $22.2 billion
AI/Dev
Google announces 30-second audio generation

Google sets a date for I/O 2026, but where in the Carmen Diego is Build 2026?

Android 17 Beta is here with an even shorter runway

With '26.3 out, Apple releases '26.4 Beta 1s
Xbox and gaming
Phil Spencer is always in the spotlight, but he's been on the down-low for months

Some hints for the future coming GDC 2026

Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Witcher 3, more coming to Xbox Game Pass

Avowed comes to the PlayStation 5 along with the Anniversary Update

Microsoft is retiring user-created Xbox social clubs

NVIDIA GeForce Now comes to Amazon Fire TV 4K Sticks
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Major progress on De-Enshittify Windows 11, the book

App pick of the week: Bing Wallpaper

RunAs Radio this week: Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess

Brown liquor pick of the week: Lot 40 100% Pot Still Rye

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 4 min
February 17Security Now 1065: Attestation
How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.
Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.

Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.

What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.

Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.

More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.

The return of Roskomnadzor.

Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.

Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.

Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.

30 malicious Chrome Extensions.

287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.

The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.

Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.

What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 41 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.