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October 22, 2025Intelligent Machines 842: None Pizza Left Beef
Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA

Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?

Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef

Originality.ai

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan

Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn

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October 22, 2025Windows Weekly 955: Chewy Indifference
Microsoft is promising a bold AI-infused future for Windows 11, as the company aims to turn the OS into an AI-powered "agentic" hub. Amid all the Copilot hype, the hosts ask the tough questions: Are these AI features solving real problems, or is Big Tech just chasing a revenue gold rush? Tune in for sharp takes on AI skepticism, notable buzzwords, and the practical impact of Microsoft's ambitious new direction.
Windows 11... Windows.ai??
Microsoft announces several new Copilot and AI features in Windows while redefining the term "AI PC" out from under Intel

New features: Hey Copilot wake phrase (and goodbye), Copilot Vision is GA, new features coming soon include Copilot replacing Search in the Taskbar, Copilot Actions for local files, Manus AI agent and Filmora integration with File Explorer AI Actions, Zoom integration with Click to Do

This is about Windows transforming into an "AI native" agentic OS

Which ties into Paul's AI is the End of Apps editorial, where apps became programmable so that they can be controlled by AI - You can see baby steps in Windows 11 in-box apps now

Microsoft explains how it will secure agents in Windows because Recall what happened last time

Microsoft releases so-called emergency update for Windows 11 after the October Patch Tuesday updates killed USB mouse and keyboard supports in the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE).

Windows Insider Program: Mobile devices settings improvements, File Explorer improvements, Drag Tray improvements, and other changes head to Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2) channels

New Start menu, battery icons, Copilot Vision integration in Taskbar, File Explorer improvements, Voice access improvements, and Click to Do improvements (Copilot+ PC only) head to Release Preview, indicating they will be a Week D preview and then Patch Tuesday release in November

Restyle rolling out in Paint across most Insider channels

Open AI finally launches long-expected web browser, but only on the Mac because FU, Microsoft

Facebook Messenger for Windows is retiring, will chase rabbits on a farm upstate
Microsoft
What does Microsoft's annual report say about its relationship with consumers?

Three core consumer businesses: Windows, Microsoft 365 Consumer, Xbox/gaming

Xbox/gaming smallest (500m) but also the most engaged - and also the most discussed in the report

Not clear what % of users/revenues is consumer based, but it's not a small number (guessing its at least one-third of each)
AI
Copilot for Education is coming in December, $18 per student per month

Anthropic Claude is coming for Copilot in Microsoft 365 commercial

Copilot has AI competition on Samsung smart TVs now

Opera Neon is getting an AI research agent
Xbox and gaming
Xbox president says next console will be "very premium". You know, like Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X are now available for purchase

New wave of games coming to Game Pass across PC, console, and cloud, including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, The Outer Worlds 2, and more

Following console price hikes, Xbox Development Kit gets a 33 percent price increase thanks to insane U.S. tariffs
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Laptops are upgradeable again and life is good

App pick of the week: A grab bag of apps for Windows users

RunAs Radio this

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 26 min
October 21, 2025Security Now 1048: Mic-E-Mouse
Think your mouse is harmless? Steve and Leo uncover how modern optical mice might be secretly "listening" in, and reveal why satellite data pouring down on us is almost entirely unsecured.
The long awaited lawsuit to block Texas SB2420.

Embattled Texas SB2420 also impacts Google Play.

At long last, NIST modernizes their password policy.

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters demise was exaggerated.

China claims that the NSA has been hacking them.

Half of all geosynchronous satellite traffic is unencrypted.

The AWS outage highlights the rising risk of Internet monoculture.

A terrific collection of listener feedback and...

Could your PC's mousehave much bigger ears than you know?

https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1048-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 51 min
October 21, 2025MacBreak Weekly 995: Fuhgeddaboudit!
Apple announced the new M5 MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro! Apple and F1 reach a 5-year media deal. And Steve Jobs will appear on the $1 U.S. coin.
M5 Vision Pro, Dual Kit Band, PSVR2 controller review: Apple's experiment continues.

Spectrum brings NBA games in Apple Immersive to Apple Vision Pro.

Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S.

M5 MacBook Pro review: The ultimate computer?

Apple to build tabletop robot and home hub in Vietnam.

Head of Apple's AI search project leaves to join Meta.

Apple says 'Great Ideas Start on Mac' in ad voiced by Dr. Jane Goodall.

Apple's Steve Jobs to appear on $1 U.S. Coin: 'Make Something Wonderful'.

Apple TV, Apple Music and App Store are down as Apple services suffer major outage.
Picks of the Week
Leo's Picks: Tahoe Electron Detector & Notepad.exe

Andy's Pick: Harper Grammar Checker

Jason's Pick: Tapo Smart Outdoor Plug-In Dimmer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 24 min
October 19, 2025This Week in Tech 1054: Nine Days a Week
Shocking new research reveals how anyone with $750 can intercept unencrypted satellite data, exposing everything from government secrets to in-flight Wi-Fi traffic. Find out why decades-old vulnerabilities are still open and who actually wants it that way.
Study: The World's Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping

You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams

cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF

Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI

The European Union issued its first fines under the AI Act, penalizing a French facial recognition startup €12 million for deploying unverified algorithms in public security contracts

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

Texas hit with a pair of lawsuits for its app store age verification requirements

Australia shares tips to wean teens off social media ahead of ban. Will it work?

California enacts age-gate law for app stores

Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll

Meta poached Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, with a compensation package rumored to reach $1.5 billion over six years

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Roku's AI-upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about what you're watching

Tesla debuts a steering wheel-less taxi for two

Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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2 hr 56 min
October 15, 2025Intelligent Machines 841: Dust and Deli Meat
Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.
TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families

(20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X

The AI water issue is fake

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch

Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law

Google will let friends help you recover an account

AI content on the net

AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet

Karpathy tweet

Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

Sal Khan is the new TED

You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.

Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit

THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI

A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat

DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver

Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?

Inherently funny word

Boah, Bahn!

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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3 hr 4 min
October 15, 2025Windows Weekly 954: We're Just Getting Started
Forget the doomsday headlines about Windows 10's end of life. Paul, Richard, and Leo break down why most users can relax, what Microsoft really has planned, and why the supposed landfill crisis around old PCs is mostly exaggeration. Also, Microsoft said OneDrive's new app was coming next year, but your file system says otherwise.
Windows 11
October Patch Tuesday arrives, 1st for 25H2

Copilot+ PCs: Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings, File Explorer improvements

24H2/25H2: Desktop improvements, File Explorer improvements, Keyboard shortcuts for en and em dashes, Administrator Protection (off by default), Passkey improvements, Game Bar improvements

Windows 10 (didn't) reach EOL and the world didn't end

Zorin OS and ChromeOS Flex seize the moment

Windows Insider: Copilot on Windows gets Connectors, Document creation and export. Copilot on Windows gets Settings support. Dev and Beta get AI agent in Settings improvements (Copilot+ PC), Setting search improvements (ditto), Drag Tray, Click to Do improvements, Dark mode improvements

Dashlane partners with Yubico to make security keys primary vault access

Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q QC is a Snapdragon X-based SFF PC

HP OmniBook 5 16-inch shows why even the cheapest Snapdragon X chip is a winner

Hope springs eternal: Intel Panther Lake is the efficiency of Lunar Lake plus the performance of Arrow Lake. Hopefully, it's not the reliability of either

IDC: PC sales jumped 9.4 percent in Q3, just not where you live
AI
AI is the end of apps

Microsoft reveals its first image generation model

Opera Neon adds Nano Banana (image gen) and Sora (video gen) capabilities
Xbox and gaming
Target and Walmart will keep selling Xbox consoles unlike those losers at Costco

A veteran of Halo Studios leaves, warns everyone

Sorry, but there will be a sequel to the Minecraft movie

Game Pass member? Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is free to play for one more day

Sony and AMD trickle out some PS6 news in a bizarre way - oh, and we're just getting started
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Yes, Virginia, you can still sign in to Windows 11 25H2 with a local account

App pick of the week: The new OneDrive app

RunAs Radio this week: The End of NTML with Steve Syfuhs

Brown liquor pick of the week: Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bourbon

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 41 min
October 14, 2025Security Now 1047: RediShell's CVSS 10.0
Texas is on the brink of forcing Apple and Google to overhaul app downloads with strict age verification laws—are tech giants ready, or is your privacy about to get caught in the crossfire?
The EU aborted their Chat Control vote knowing it would fail.

Salesforce says it's not going to pay; customer data is released.

Hackers claim Discord breach netted 70,000 government IDs.

Microsoft to move Github to Azure. What could possibly go wrong.

New California law allows universal data sharing opt-out.

OpenAI reports that it's blocking foreign abuse. Who cares.

IE Mode refuses to die, so Microsoft is burying it deeper.

The massive mess created by Texas legislation SB2420.

The BreachForums website gets a makeover.

100,000 strong global botnet attacking U.S. RDP services.

UI experts weigh in on Apple's iOS 26 user-interface.

330,000 publicly exposed REDIS servers are RCE-vulnerable

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2 hr 33 min
October 14, 2025MacBreak Weekly 994: Tim Cook's Labubu
Could Tim Cook retire soon? California has signed a new age verification law that requires parents to enter their kids' ages when setting up a smartphone. Could a new MacBook Pro be coming soon, say this week? And Apple has increased its bug bounty award payout for big exploits to $2 million!
Apple CEO Tim Cook visits China: receives custom LABUBU doll and hosts first livestream sales event.

Tim Cook took over Apple's operations and started to change the world 20 years ago.

Apple renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'.

Everything new in iOS 26.1 beta 3.

macOS 26.1 beta 3 changes polarizing Macintosh HD icon.

Newsom signs age verification law, siding with tech giants over Hollywood.

California enacts age-gate law for app stores.

Apple teases new MacBook Pro: 'Something powerful is coming'.

Apple to move Health, fitness divisions to services in reorganization.

Here's the latest on Apple suing Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks.

It's not too late for Apple to get AI right.

Apple beats Musk, buys Prompt AI startup.

Apple ups the reward for finding major exploits to $2 million.

Explainer: How is XProtect's data updated?

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence.

Apple says goodbye to the Clips app.

Elon Musk tries to make Apple and mobile carriers regret choosing Starlink rivals.

A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate.

The great software quality collapse: how we normalized catastrophe.
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: The Loneliness Epidemic: Big Tech's Role and Responsibility

Jason's Pick: YoLink Water Sensors

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 13 min
October 12, 2025This Week in Tech 1053: Robotic Lap Trimmer
From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.
October Term 2025

Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case

I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families

Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show

Chat Control: Germany says NEIN

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.

Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown

Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free

California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

Introducing Figure 03

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Gary Rivlin

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3 hr 21 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.