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November 19, 2025Intelligent Machines 846: Chivelord
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

Part 1: How I Found Out

$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand

His announcement leaving Meta

White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations

Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain

AI love, actually

Cat island

road trip: liquidator's warehouse

Gentype

The Carpenter's Son...

My excerpt from the Q&A

Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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2 hr 44 min
November 19, 2025Windows Weekly 959: Thurrott Syndrome
Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.
Ignite 2025
Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?

No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again

Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture

MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers

New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service

Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already
Windows 11
Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions

The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected

Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more
AI
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed

Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash
Xbox and gaming
Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming

Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11

FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience

Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising

Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support

Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms

Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20

As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again

Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2

RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 30 min
November 18, 2025Security Now 1052: Global Cellphone Tracking
Think your cell phone is safe from tracking? Steve reveals how global networks let anyone pinpoint your location—no hacking required and no malware involved.
Apple introduces a new Digital ID inside Wallet.

Checkout.com refuses to pay a ransom demand.

Google announces "Private AI Compute" in the cloud.

Google backpedals on their "devs must register" demand.

Win11 added a Passkeys API which 1Password & Bitwarden support.

Russia tracks SIM card appearances to thwart drone usage.

Google sues Chinese Phishing as a Service platform.

Lots of interesting listener feedback.

Global cellphone tracking is alive, well, malware free and a distressingly common commercial enterprise

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1052-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 3 min
November 18, 2025MacBreak Weekly 999: Rough Depowdering
Speculation about Tim Cook's eventual successor is ramping up, as he may announce his retirement as early as next year. A federal jury in California rules that Apple must pay Masimo $634 million for patent infringement. And Apple unveils how cases for the Apple Watch Series 11 & Ultra 3 were 3D-printed this year.
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook.

Apple COO Jeff Williams is now officially retired.

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement.

UK refuses Apple's request to appeal $2 billion App Store ruling.

Apple wins camera patent dispute, as Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal.

2026 iPad roadmap: Here's when to expect every upcoming model.

Mapping the future with 3D‑printed titanium Apple Watch cases.

Joe Rogan beats The Daily to top Apple Podcasts' Top Charts for 2025.

Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI'.

Apple's iPhone overhaul will reduce its reliance on annual fall spectacle.

Apple takes 25% share of China smartphone market in October on iPhone 17 demand.

Survey data shows Wi-Fi speeds are much faster on iPhone 17, thanks to Apple N1 chip.

Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup.

Is "F1: The Movie" getting a sequel?

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died.
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Shelly's Pick: Magnetic Airpod Pro Lanyard

Jason's Picks: Alternatives to Bartender

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Shelly Brisbin

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2 hr 35 min
November 16, 2025This Week in Tech 1058: Furry Little Potatoes
Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany

Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout

The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling

Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA

Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

PNG is back!

3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats

What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?

Withings Beamo

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren

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3 hr 20 min
November 12, 2025Intelligent Machines 845: Pregnant With 83 Digital Assistants
Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.
Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary

OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment

Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup

Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up

Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot

12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation

How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?

What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go

LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior

No. 10's synthetic voters

Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers

Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country

My torture for you

Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise

'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week

How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online

Tort Law museum visit

Bread and Puppet Museum

We're famous in Germany

Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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2 hr 50 min
November 12, 2025Windows Weekly 958: Personal Turkey
Windows 11 just got its most noticeable Start menu revamp in a while, but is it a productivity boost or just more Microsoft meddling? The team digs into Patch Tuesday's big surprises and whether generative tools are transformative essentials or just a passing fad.
Windows 11
Patch Tuesday was yesterday, your new Start menu is right where Microsoft left it

Copilot+ PCs: Improvements to Click to Do, File Explorer, Voice access, and Windows Search

All PCs, eventually: Taskbar improvements, Administrator Protection (off by default), Quality updates

Heading into Ignite next week, Microsoft cites recent security wins in Windows 11 and Surface

First 26H1 build comes to Canary to prove that there will be nothing new in it, ever

Qualcomm takes a one-time $5.7 billion hit thanks to Big Stupid Bill but still nails it in quarterly earnings
Microsoft
WSJ continues its Microsoft financial accountability criticisms

Also reports that internal documents state OpenAI expects to lose $74 billion in 2028, the year Anthropic will break even

If Paul starts a business and it loses money for three years in a row, it becomes a hobby. So WTF is OpenAI exactly?
AI
Microsoft AI creates a Superintelligence team as a sort-of alternative to AGI

Microsoft launched .NET 10 at .NET Conf on Tuesday - Plus, Visual Studio 2026 with a new monthly release schedule and Insider versions going forward

Double-digit performance improvements again, somehow

Uno announced Uno Platform Studio 2.0 with a fun surprise for Paul: They upgraded the original WPF version of .NETpad into a cross platform app in 3 minutes! There will be a demo on Thursday

.NETpad is transitioning to WinUIpad with the Windows App SDK rewrite. It is going poorly because Windows App SDK is terrible, cannot be open sourced quickly enough
Xbox
Steam announces a new videogame console, the Steam Machine!

Backbone Pro Xbox Edition is now available

Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is here with with Xbox Play Anywhere support, Creations

Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming, so Halo: Infinite becomes a lot more finite

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 player on PC? Hope you enjoyed that 180 GB "update" you had to install before playing a year-old game (also got a 6.7 GB update Wednesday. For the love of God)

GTA VI has been delayed yet again as it edges into Duke Nukem Forever territory

Sony has now sold over 84 million PS5 consoles, meaning it has outsold every Xbox generation ever made

Sony is selling a 27-inch gaming display in the U.S. and Japan
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Solving the problem over identifying the problem

App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder

RunAs Radio this week: Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kyoto Whisky Kuro-Obi Black Belt Blended

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 32 min
November 11, 2025Security Now 1051: Amazon Sues Perplexity
Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.
FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.

The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.

A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.

Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.

The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.

XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.

Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.

Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.

Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).

The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.

More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.

More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.

Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.

What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1051-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 45 min
November 11, 2025MacBreak Weekly 998: Touching Grass
What is the iPhone Pocket? Apple is nearing a $1 billion a year deal to use Google AI with Siri. Could the OLED MacBook Pro redesign be limited to just the M6 Pro and Max models? And is Apple TV's new show, Pluribus, good? It's good enough to have brought Apple TV down for a period of time during its initial release.
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone.

Apple nears $1 billion-a year deal to use Google AI for Siri.

Report: OLED MacBook Pro redesign may be exclusive to M6 Pro and M6 Max models.

The iPad Pro at 10: a decade of unrealized potential.

Apple's losing its podcast legacy — why it matters, and how to save it.

Forget Liquid Glass, Apple TV's new logo was shot with actual glass.

Did Pluribus trigger the AppleTV+ crash?

Vince Gilligan wants you to know that Pluribus was 'made by humans'.

Apple original films acquires J S Mayank & David Carlyle's manuscript 'Fallen Astronaut'.

Future of Apple Fitness+ 'under review'.

B&H lists HomePod Mini as discontinued amid refresh rumors.
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: Club TWiT & Central Heating!

Stephen's Pick: Foodnoms App

Alex's Pick: The Oh Hellos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Guest: Stephen Robles

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2 hr 25 min
November 09, 2025This Week in Tech 1057: Ferret Trousering
Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man

SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum

Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft

YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024

Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform

YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight

YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'

Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess

Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15

The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works

China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year

Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet

After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers

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3 hr 4 min

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