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January 20MacBreak Weekly 1008: Check the Stains
Rumors are starting to pick up in 2026, with more information emerging about the upcoming iPhone 18 and M5 MacBook Pros. Could we finally see new Studio Displays this year? And end-to-end encryption for RCS messages could finally be coming to iOS.
iPhone 18 Pro: Dynamic Island may move to top-left screen corner.

Some MacBook Pro configurations see up to a two-month delay ahead of possible next-gen M5 MacBook Pro release.

The icon history of various Apple software.

New Studio Display or Pro Display XDR spotted in regulatory database.

Google Gemini-Powered Siri will reportedly have these 7 new features.

Apple Watch blood sugar monitoring a step closer as new tech launches.

The Smartlet dual watch band is the most ridiculous Apple Watch accessory yet.

Apple Vision Pro owners will get a great assortment of classic arcade games in VR soon.

Red Bull's 2026 Formula 1 launch puts Apple hardware front and center.

Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade.

As pressure mounts for Apple to pull the X app, xAI says Grok will stop undressing people.

In case you ever doubted it, Apple Car was real -- reveals Airbnb.

End-to-end encryption for RCS messages surfaces in iOS 26.3 beta.

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage.

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: Dolly Parton & Trio, with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt

Stephen's Pick: Aqara U400 Smart Lock UWB

Jason's Pick: Also the Aqara U400 Smart Lock, but UWB locks in general.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Stephen Robles

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2 hr 33 min
January 18This Week in Tech 1067: Short Vertical Content
Claude isn't just the hottest name in AI right now—it's quietly ushering in a wave of ultra-personalized, vibe-coded software that could transform how we build and use tech in 2026. Find out why coders and normies alike are obsessed and what's coming next.
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files

Behind the Curtain: The AI future has arrived

Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune

Elon Musk's Grok 'Undressing' Problem Isn't Fixed

I asked Grok's AI to undress me after X's new limits. It's still easy on the app.

Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

Instagram says it fixed the issue that sent password reset emails

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals

French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition

Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban

TikTok has quietly launched a new micro drama app called PineDrama as the category picks up steam in the US

Creator income inequality is rising as top influencers rake in big paydays from brands

Managers on alert for "launch fever" as pressure builds for NASA's Moon mission

Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts

Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

'Are You Dead?' is now the top paid App Store app in China

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Cinemark will fill almost anything with popcorn this weekend—but there's a catch

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia: We need you now more than ever

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Abrar Al-Heeti

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3 hr 15 min
January 14Intelligent Machines 853: All The Clocks Were Wrong
Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Claude Code

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools

Introducing Cowork

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars

Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin

Creepy Link

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis

Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California

J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

Postal Arbitrage

New protein tests

The Traitors Season 4

WikiFlix

MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms

'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Silverman

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2 hr 55 min
January 14Windows Weekly 966: You Can't Spell Gmail Without AI
Satya Nadella gave up much of his CEO duties in 2025. Are we on the cusp of a new CEO? And does some money manager/political duo like Amy Hood and Brad Smith actually make more sense in this role than an engineer-type for the modern Microsoft?
Microsoft is trying to win our hearts and minds on AI
After spending three years trying to jam AI down our collective throats, Microsoft has only met resistance. Now, the real marketing begins

Governments and regulators: Microsoft will build out its AI infrastructure by actually paying for it and respecting the communities in which this happens

Customers: Satya Nadella is blogging, and he wants us to stop complaining about AI. He's the wrong messenger
Windows 11
First Patch Tuesday of 2026 brings security and bug fixes but no new features

First update of 2026 brings Copilot-powered image descriptions in Narrator, new IT policies for Copilot, other changes to Dev & Beta

Dev is about to switch to 26H1

IDC says that PC sales rose 8.1 percent in 2025, warns again about 2026

The good & bad of Paul's Panther Lake laptop

Dell doesn't sell any PCs to consumers so it obviously has opinions about why consumers don't buy PCs for AI

Microsoft will soon retire its Lens mobile app
AI
Apple predictably partners with Google to bring Gemini to Siri

Samsung correctly points out we're all using AI already so there's no reason to complain about it

We can't trust AI, so Microsoft is letting Copilot go shopping with our credit cards

We can't trust AI, so OpenAI is giving ChatGPT access to our private health data

Gmail is getting more AI because email is the low-hanging fruit of data collection
Xbox and gaming
Developer Direct returns on January 22 with Fable and Forza 6 gameplay

Microsoft to bring Avowed to PS5 in February
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Kick off 2026 with a security checkup

App pick of the week: Microsoft Local Foundry

RunAs Radio this week: Azure in 2026 with Jeremy Winter

Brown liquor pick of the week: Don Julio 70

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 29 min
January 13Security Now 1060: 3-Day Certificates
Why are code signing certificates suddenly so expensive, short-lived, and tangled in red tape? Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson dig into Microsoft's "three-day certificates," the hidden costs for developers, and the security tradeoffs no one saw coming.
A look at Microsoft's Azure cloud code signing.

California implements DROP, global data broker opt-out.

Where's the town of "Whata Bod" Idaho.

iOS built-in Mail app worked itself out of a job.

A 30-minute tutorial for non-coders about AI coding.

Claude Code appears to be winning over the AI coding world.

Various listener musings on code signing.

A bit of Magnesium feedback.

What use are 3-day code signing certs?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1060-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 50 min
January 13MacBreak Weekly 1007: They Plump When They Cook
Apple & Google enter a multi-year collaboration to integrate Apple's AI with Google's Gemini model. Apple unveils its Apple Creator Studio app collection. And JPMorganChase will become the new issuer of the Apple Card.
Joint statement from Google and Apple.

Introducing Apple Creator Studio, an inspiring collection of creative apps.

Some first thoughts about live immersive basketball.

Apple: You (still) don't understand the Vision Pro.

Chase is taking over Apple's credit card.

Apple loses Safari lead designer to The Browser Company.

Removing Tahoe's unwanted menu icons.

iOS 26 shows unusually slow adoption months after release [updated].

Global smartphone shipments grew 2% YoY in 2025; Apple emerged as market leader.

Exclusive: India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul.

Verizon no longer needs to unlock phones after 60 days, thanks to FCC.

Apple scores at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards with Best Comedy and Best Actor wins for record-breaking hit "The Studio," alongside a Best Actress win for "Pluribus".

Legendary classic Macintosh game 'Dark Castle' is coming back to the Mac.

Texas man discovers 2.09-carat brown diamond at Arkansas State Park after asking Siri for mining tips.

Lego iMac G3 clears key hurdle, moves closer to release.
Picks of the Week
Doc's Pick: Corsair Xeneon Edge 14.5" LCD Touchscreen

Leo's Pick: Insta360 Link 2 & 2CPro

Jason's Pick: xteink x4

Andy's Pick: Dark Castle on Internet Archive

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Doc Rock

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2 hr 42 min
January 11This Week in Tech 1066: A Supercomputer in Your Pocket
Is putting a camera in your toilet the future of health, or have tech companies lost the plot? This episode's panel digs into what's truly innovative versus what's just over the top, as industry leaders spar over privacy concerns and the real impact of AI in everyday devices.
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready version of Atlas robot at CES 2026

Hair Drying Robot

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia's New Vera Rubin Chips Are in 'Full Production'

AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series includes the first Copilot+ desktop CPU — Team Red refreshes Zen 5 APUs and Strix Halo

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses

Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access

Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop

The Verge Awards at CES 2026

These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Jason Hiner

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3 hr 5 min
January 07Intelligent Machines 852: Gluten-free Slop
Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?
NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle

No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images

Introducing ChatGPT Health

'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic

Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism

The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all

2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"

Stanford's AI class on YouTube

Tamiflu

Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)

Happy birthday Nic Cage

Floor796

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jason Hiner

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2 hr 40 min
January 07Windows Weekly 965: Almost Meat
PC makers are shaking up CES with wild designs and next-gen chips, but the real story is Microsoft's bold software moves, AI's hardware hunger, and a candid debate over whether any tech company still puts users first. Come for the Windows updates, stay for the whisky warnings and robot bathroom assistants.
CES 2026 is here with the 4K hummingbird feeder of your dreams
New PCs and more from HP consumers/commercial, HP gamers, Lenovo, others

The first official Copilot+ PC desktops

Snapdragon X2 Plus joins X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme

Intel Panther Lake has meaningful CPU and graphics performance gains, but predictable reliability issues

AMD Ryzen AI 400 series is a minor bump
Windows
Paul was the first to report that Microsoft is refactoring it all with Rust

A Microsoft distinguished engineer wrote about his desire to refactor all C/C++ code in the company with Rust by 2030

Some mistook this to mean "rewriting Windows with Rust,ˮ so he had to issue a clarification. But I never wrote that.

Heads-up: That will happen, but this is really about Azure first and the core underlying code in Microsoftʼs most important platforms

Microsoft released hardware-accelerated BitLocker in late 2025 and never told anyone. It requires the latest PC CPUs

Copilot app update that adds text editing actions to Copilot Vision across channels

Dev and Beta got first previews of AI agents on the Taskbar, starting with the Researcher agent, plus underlying Agent Launchers experience

IDC says the global memory shortage (thanks, AI!) could screw up PC and smartphone growth this year
AI
ChatGPT now has an app store, but it has a ways to go

Mozilla Firefox will have a "killswitchˮ for AI

Our national nightmare will soon be over, LG will let users remove Copilot app from their smart TVs
Xbox and gaming
First Xbox Game Pass releases of 2026 include Resident Evil Village and Star Wars Outlaws

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Hisense smart TVs and to the latest Fire TV smart TVs

GOG goes independent, will continue DRM-free push

"Have a blastˮ and other FPS throwbacks from the 1990s

Valve quietly killed the LCD Steam Deck model
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Itʼs time to give Little AI a look

App pick of the week: Bonjourr

RunAs Radio this week: What AI can do for SysAdmins in 2026 with Cecilia Wiren

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Singleton of Dufftown 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 27 min
January 06Security Now 1059: MongoBleed
Why are code signing certificates suddenly getting shorter, pricier, and more restrictive? Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte expose the "cabal" rewriting the rules for everyone who builds software—and what it means for your security and your wallet.
Code-signing certificate lifetimes shortened by two years.

Sadly, ChatGPT is heading toward an advertising profit model.

The Python Package Index is strengthening its security.

BitLocker gets hardware acceleration, but not today.

New York City's mayoral inauguration banned Raspberry Pi's.

An astonishingly good British time travel series.

A critical link between Vitamin D and Magnesium.

A look inside the very bad MongoBleed vulnerability

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1059-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 17 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.