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Total Leo (Audio) episodes
- MacBreak Weekly 1006: Unemployable
A look back at what Apple did, and did not deliver in 2025. What will Apple do in 2026? Could Apple benefit from Alan Dye, former design lead for Apple, leaving the company? And you can watch an upcoming NBA game, live, in the Vision Pro!
- 2025 will be remembered for what Apple didn't deliver.
- And Stay Out!
- It's hard to justify Tahoe icons.
- Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy.
- AppleVis announces winners of the 2025 Golden Apple Awards.
- Los Angeles Lakers games on Spectrum Front Row in Apple Immersive tip off January 9.
- Apple scores at the Critics Choice Awards with top wins for global hit feature "F1" and Best Comedy Series "The Studio".
- Pluribus season 2 isn't happening for a while, says Vince Gilligan: 'We're working on it'.
- Steve Jobs' Desk, Bow Ties, 8-Track tapes, and other personal ephemera featured in Apple 50th Anniversary auction
Picks of the Week
- Shelly's Pick: PiccyBot
- Andy's Pick: Bounce
- Jason's Pick: LosslessCut
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
Guest: Shelly Brisbin
Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly.
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2 hr 36 min - This Week in Tech 1065: AI Action Park
Happy New Year! NVIDIA just spent $20 billion to hollow out an AI company for its brains, while Meta and Google scramble to scoop up fresh talent before AI gets "too weird to manage." Who's winning, who's left behind, and what do these backroom deals mean for the future of artificial intelligence?
- Andrej Karpathy admits programmers cannot keep pace with AI advances
- Economic uncertainty in AI despite massive stock market influence
- Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft drive AI productization for business and consumers
- OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini battle for consumer AI dominance
- Journalism struggles to keep up with AI realities and misinformation tools
- Concerns mount over AI energy, water, and environmental impact narratives
- Meta buys Manus, expands AI agent ambitions with Llama model
- OpenAI posts high-stress "Head of Preparedness" job worth $555K+
- Training breakthroughs: DeepSeek's mHC and comparisons to Action Park
- U.S. lawmakers push broad, controversial internet censorship bills
- Age verification and bans spark state laws, VPN workaround explosion
- U.S. drone ban labeled protectionist as industry faces tech shortages
- FCC security initiatives falter; Cyber Trust Mark program scrapped
- Waymo robotaxis stall in blackouts, raising AV urban planning issues
- School cellphone bans expose kids' struggle with analog clocks
- MetroCard era ends in NYC as tap-to-pay takes over subway access
- RAM, VRAM, and GPU prices soar as AI and gaming squeeze supply
- CES preview: Samsung QD-OLED TV, Sony AFEELA car, gadget show hype
- Remembering Stewart Cheifet and Computer Chronicles' legacy
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Dan Patterson and Joey de Villa
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
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2 hr 48 min - Intelligent Machines 851: Intelligent Machines Best of 2025
Our interviews with:
- Ray Kurzweil
- Alex Hanna
- Emily Bender
- Mike Masnick
- Pliny the Liberator
- Kevin Kelly
Host: Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.
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Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit3 hr 57 min - Windows Weekly 964: Happy New Year!
This isn't your usual Windows Weekly. Pour a glass and settle in as Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell ditch the headlines for whisky-soaked tech stories, behind-the-scenes Microsoft confessions, and the unexpected joys (and disasters) of vintage hardware. These are the tales you only hear when the mics are (almost) off.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
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Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit1 hr 29 min - Security Now 1058: A Gift for the New Year
In this special holiday episode, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte revisit their classic conversation about vitamin D—diving into the science, surprising updates, and practical tips for your health. Whether you've heard it before or are tuning in for the first time, this "blast from the past" is the perfect way to kick off 2026 with wisdom, laughs, and a little bit of eggnog recovery.
Read more at https://www.grc.com/health
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit1 hr 27 min - MacBreak Weekly 1005: Best of 2025
Join us again as we take a look back at some of MacBreak Weekly's favorite stories and moments from 2025:
- The unveiling of the iPhone 16e.
- The UK's effort to keep Apple Encryption fight secret is block & White House blames iPhone's auto-correct contact for Signal scandal.
- Apple's fairly underwhelming, and hilarious, 'Celebrity Snapshot' page.
- Another new product announcement from Apple: the iPhone Air!
- MacBreak Weekly celebrates its 1000th episode!
- And the departure of one of the original panelists of MacBreak Weekly...
Host: Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly.
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- AI video generation
- TWiT turns 20
- Harper Reed on vibe-coding
- Job loss and AI
- Apple's iPhone 16 event
- Amy Webb's crazy husband talks about his anonymous computer
Host: Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
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1 hr 21 min - Security Now 1057: GhostPoster
What if your smart TV and Firefox extensions were secretly hijacking your security and privacy? This episode reveals the jaw-dropping discovery of a massive TV botnet and the surprisingly clever malware lurking behind innocent browser icons.
- North Korea's profitable fixation on cryptocurrency.
- Amazon uncovers a cryptomining sneaking into customer clouds.
- Insecure Docker API servers are also hosting cryptominers.
- A new and truly massive SmartTV-based botnet discovery.
- DNS Benchmark's 4th release.
- Who, besides Let's Encrypt, offers free automated certs.
- Some interesting listener feedback.
- And how a PNG Icon was used to infect 50,000 Firefox users
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1057-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 21 min - MacBreak Weekly 1004: A Sad Farewell
An update on the story about an Apple developer who lost access to their Apple ID. Apple receives clearance to activate the Apple Watch hypertension detection feature in Australia. Italy fines Apple $115 million over App Tracking Transparency. And we say goodbye to one of the original MacBreak Weekly panelists.
- Apple developer's account restored after compromised gift card incident.
- Apple receives clearance to activate Apple Watch hypertension detection/notification feature in Australia.
- Apple agrees to third-party App Store alternatives in Brazil.
- Apple's iOS 26.3 will introduce proximity pairing to third-party devices in the EU.
- Free two-hour delivery from Apple Stores now available for a limited time.
- 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio - RDMA over Thunderbolt 5.
- Italy fines Apple $115 million over App Tracking Transparency.
- Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results
- Apple quietly discontinued flyover city tours in Apple Maps.
- Why Apple's foldable iPhone may be smaller than expected.
- Apple TV releasing Pluribus season finale early.
Picks of the Week
- Alex's Pick: Homey Pro
- Andy's Pick: Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas & Patrick Stewart's 'A Christmas Carol'
- Jason's Pick: Some of his favorite books, TV shows, and podcasts from the past year.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly.
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2 hr 25 min - This Week in Tech 1063: The Year's End
After a year tangled in political drama, AI hype, and regulation battles, the TWiT crew explains how many of tech's "biggest stories" simply fizzled into nothing or left us with new headaches by year's end.
- Year-end tech trends: AI, politics, and security dominated 2025
- Major stories faded fast: TikTok saga, political tech drama, DOGE scandal
- TikTok's ownership battle—Oracle, Trump donors, and US-China tensions
- China tech fears: banned drones, IoT vulnerabilities, secret radios in buses
- Rising political pressure for internet privacy and media literacy reform
- Surveillance and kill switch concerns in US grid and port infrastructure
- Convenience vs. privacy: Americans trade data for discounts and ease
- Age verification, surveillance, and flawed facial recognition across countries
- Discord's ID leak highlights risks of rushed compliance with privacy laws
- Social media's impact on kids pushes age-gating and verification laws
- ISPs monetize customer data, VPNs pitched for personal privacy
- Global government crackdowns: UK bans VPN advertising, mandates age checks
- The illusion of absolute privacy: flawed age gates and persistent tracking
- AI takes over: explosive growth, but profits elusive for big players
- Arms race in LLMs: DeepSeek's breakthrough, OpenAI/Meta talent bidding war
- Ad-driven models still rule; Amazon's playbook repeated in AI
- Humanoid robots and AGI hype: skepticism vs. Silicon Valley optimism
- AI-generated art, media, and the challenge of deepfake detection
- Social platforms falter: Instagram and X swamped by fake or low-value content
- Google's legal, regulatory, and technical woes: ad tech trial, Manifest V3 backlash
- RAM price spikes and hardware shortages blamed on AI data center demand
- YouTube overtakes mobile for podcast and video viewing, Oscars move online
- The internet's growth: Cloudflare stats, X vs. Reddit, spam domain trends
- Weird tech stories: hacked crosswalks, Nintendo Switch 2 Staplegate, LEGO theft ring
- Sad farewell: Lamar Wilson's passing and mental health awareness in tech
- Reflections on the year's turbulence and hopes for a better 2026
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mikah Sargent, Paris Martineau, and Steve Gibson
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
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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.
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