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December 17, 2025Intelligent Machines 850: Bagel Rats
Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI

Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?

Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal

This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029

When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice

The worst person in tech bracket

Banned fonts

Subway bagel rats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: CJ Trowbridge

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2 hr 16 min
December 17, 2025Windows Weekly 963: I've Got an Apple Guy
We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.
Windows 11
Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order...

Dark mode improvements to File Explorer

Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed

Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller

Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only)

External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS

-External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only)
Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel

Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement

Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones

AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool

Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well)

Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls

Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always

Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs
AI
An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected

Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3

ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro

Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google

Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month

AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now

Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes

Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products

Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation

Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud
Mobile
Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice

Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight
Xbox and gaming
Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones

There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January

Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while
Tips & picks
Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11

App pick of the year: Fortnite

RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante

Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1

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2 hr 37 min
December 16, 2025Security Now 1056: Australia
Australia's nationwide social media ban has put tech's age verification tools under the spotlight, exposing the flaws and privacy risks in today's facial detection systems and sparking worldwide debate about what's coming for the rest of us.
Home Depot's puzzling reluctance to close a bad hole.

GNOME's shell extension manager is unhappy with AI.

How attacks on open source repositories compares in 2025.

China's researchers have taken aim at the US power grid.

How bad has the React2Shell vulnerability turned out to be.

More new React vulnerabilities.

Apple moves to iOS 26.2.

Let's Encrypt's crosses into one billion servers managed.

A DNS Benchmark update.

Some interesting listener feedback, then...

How things going with Australia's social media ban and what we are learning

https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1056-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 57 min
December 16, 2025MacBreak Weekly 1003: The Intersection of Greed and Delusion
Apple releases OS 26.2 right before the holidays! Pluribus becomes Apple TV's most-watched show ever. And why you should consider backing up more of your stuff locally.
Apple releases OS 26.2 updates.

With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen.

26.2: Here are the security fixes for all of Apple's operating systems.

tvOS 26.2 brings kids mode to the Apple TV app.

iOS 26.3 beta reveals how Apple plans to handle EU-required notification forwarding.

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case.

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect.

Pluribus becomes Apple TV's most watched show ever.

Cadillac and Chevy are getting native Apple Music.

Apple buys two new buildings in Cupertino, topping $1B spend.

UK to push for nudity-blocking software on devices to protect children.

20 years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: Fosi Audio BT20A Pro Bluetooth 5.0 Amplifier

Andy's Pick: "Will Return" Screensaver

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 13 min
December 14, 2025This Week in Tech 1062: The Architects of AI
Are we witnessing an AI-fueled gold rush or the early signs of an epic crash? Listen to these hard-hitting discussions on bubbles, breakthroughs, and the real impact behind Silicon Valley's AI obsession.
Time Magazine's "Person of the Year": the Architects of AI

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.

'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas

Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub

Could America win the AI race but lose the war?

Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

The countdown to the world's first social media ban for children

US could demand five-year social media history from tourists before allowing entry

Reddit making global changes to protect kids after social media ban - 9to5Mac

There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale

Paramount CEO Made Trump a Secret Promise on CNN in Warner Bros. Convo

Whatnot's Schlock Empire Shows Digital Live Shopping Can Thrive in America

The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweeps The Game Awards — analysis and full winners list

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program

An ex-Twitter lawyer is trying to bring Twitter back

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Jason Hiner

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3 hr 1 min
December 10, 2025Intelligent Machines 849: AI Cricket Sorting
What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.
Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi
ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up

From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026

Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman

Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI

The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)

Techdirt fundraiser

From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style

Bare Metal Email

Jeff in Austria

Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy

Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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2 hr 32 min
December 10, 2025Windows Weekly 962: Peak Bloat
December 2025's Patch Tuesday brought major shifts, but the real action is in Microsoft's pricing, privacy battles, and the arms race to control AI-enabled browsers. Plus, Paul recommends Tiny11 Builder for a clean install, or Win11Debloat for an existing install. Then, Rufus to create installation media without the forced Microsoft account (MSA) sign-in or hardware requirement checks. Use MSEdgeDirect to use the default web browser for stories from Widgets, web-based search results, etc. And ExplorerPatcher can fix the performance and reliability issues in File Explorer.
It's the final Patch Tuesday of 2025
Major dark mode updates (with a fix for the "flashbang" problem)

AI Agent in Settings, Click to Do, Windows Studio Effects, and Search improvements for Copilot+ PCs

Many other improvements: FSE, Share, Settings, Widgets, more
More Windows 11
New 25H2 preview build on Beta/Dev adds MCP public preview, Quick Machine Recovery auto-enabled, Unified Update Orchestration Platform, Windows MIDI services
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is getting a lot more expensive in mid-2026. You didn't think all those free AI updates were free, did you?
AI
Paul has been talking about "programmatic" apps and services because he wasn't sure of a term for this type of interaction. But there is a term for this: Semantic. As in semantic web. And there you go

Microsoft one of 1,000 companies partnering on Agentic AI Foundation because you're getting agents whether they work or not

Gartner says NO to AI web browsers

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for all the obvious reasons

After a big win in the legal battle with OpenAI

Opera for Android gets a big AI update

Google Workspace Studio brings code-free agent creation to business users - automation is a solid AI use case
Xbox
Xbox Series X|S notably absent during Black Friday sales

Call of Duty won't repeat the mistakes of the past anymore since it didn't work out twice now

MS Flight Simulator 2024 is now available on PS5

Red Dead Redemption comes to mobile for the first time, free with a Netflix account
Tips & Picks
Tip and app(s) of the week: De-enshittify Windows 11

RunAs Radio this week: Incident Management and the Crowdstrike Event with Liam Westley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Old Farm Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 44 min
December 09, 2025Security Now 1055: React's Perfect 10
A devastating new React vulnerability earned a "perfect 10" for risk, letting attackers remotely run code on a million-plus servers with a single HTTP request. Find out what happened, how fast attackers moved in, and why this bug changes everything for web security.
France's VanityFair face a stiff fine over cookies.

GrapheneOS pulls out of France over coercion worries.

The EU adds to the pile-on over underage social media.

India mandates the tracking of all smartphones.

Apple says no.

India abandons its smartphone tracking mandate.

India requires all encrypted messaging to be SIM-tied.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters --becomes--> SLH.

AI demand has driven RAM pricing sky high.

GRC's DNS Benchmark is finished and available.

Cisco may talk a good game, but they're still Cisco.

Browsers to ask users for local network access permission.

React: The worst remote code exploit in a LONG time.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1055-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 46 min
December 09, 2025MacBreak Weekly 1002: I'm With Bieber
Alan Dye jumps ship, departing Apple for Meta! Could Johny Srouji leave Apple soon? Srouji says he's not leaving "anytime soon". Justin Bieber is upset over part of Apple's Messages UI. And Apple TV previews part of the F1 channel TV app!
Bad Dye Job.

Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief.

What the heck is going on at Apple?

Apple Chip Chief tells staff he's not leaving "Anytime Soon".

In a major coup for someone, Alan Dye leaves Apple.

Report: Apple Bleeding Talent to OpenAI.

Apple highlights developer tools as Australia bans social media for under-16s.

Justin Bieber threatens Apple with "rear naked choke hold" over Messages UI.

Apple may have to enable always-on GPS in India.

Russia restricts FaceTime, its latest step in controlling online communications.

A love letter to glory days of iPhone gaming.

Create a bootable external disk for Apple silicon Macs in Tahoe.

iFixit app returns to the App Store with AI guidance and battery warnings.

Pebble's new smart ring stops you from forgetting your best ideas.

More all-black Vision Pro prototype parts surface online.

New features for Galaxy XR and a look at future devices.

Apple TV previews new F1 streaming deal, confirms driver onboard cams will be included.

Apple announces winners of 2025 App Store awards.

Apple's acclaimed feature "F1" and hit series "Severance," "Pluribus," & "Slow Horses" land top nominations for the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: MBW Picks (Pick-ception Paul Mayson!)

Andy's Pick: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Alex's Pick: GenR8

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2 hr 29 min
December 07, 2025This Week in Tech 1061: Amy's Crazy Husband
What happens if your internet provider gets the blame for what you download? This week, the panel unpacks a billion-dollar copyright battle at the Supreme Court that could upend how we all use the web.
Justice Alito Makes The Most Sense, Or This Week At The Supreme Court In The Cox-Sony Copyright Case

First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of

These new FDA-approved glasses promise to slow nearsightedness in kids. Here's how they work

Amazon Tests U.S. Ultrafast Delivery Offering

What the heck is going on at Apple? | CNN Business

Meta's Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts

Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless

Instagram mandates total return to office for employees in 2026

Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? - Slashdot

School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement

RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: 'Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art'

People who talk with their hands seem clearer, more persuasive - Fast Company

(a petition to cancel Twitter's trademark for abandonment)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Cathy Gellis, and Brian Woolf

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2 hr 55 min

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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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