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- Windows Weekly 951: The ODBC of AI
Paul Thurrott reports live from Maui with exciting details on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite chip and how it could shake up the PC world, while behind the scenes, Microsoft quietly drifts further from OpenAI just as an NVIDIA mega-deal makes headlines. Is Windows about to get its biggest reboot in years, and can ARM finally topple Intel?
Windows
- 25H2 is imminent: The real ISOs and eKBs are here!
- Paul's Arm-based trip to Mexico and Arm-based Apple-tastic experience at Snapdragon Summit
- And yet. It's Week D. And we didn't get any preview updates (for 24H2)
- Windows AI Labs is a thing
- If you're migrating from Windows 10 get a Windows 11 on Arm PC, Microsoft suggests
- New AI features coming to Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool
- New Dev and Beta (and Canary) builds: Click to Do translation, Share with Copilot, Accounts management improvements
AI
- The Microsoft/OpenAI rift widens yet again
- NVIDIA invests $100 billion in OpenAI, days after "investing" $5 billion in Intel
- Intel will keep making its own GPUs because who gives a crap
- Microsoft is bringing Anthropic Claude to Microsoft 365 Copilot - "Model choice"
- Microsoft reportedly trying to pay publishers for content used by AI
- Microsoft Teams is getting more agents
- Google Chrome is getting a major AI update
Snapdragon Summit 2025
- 6G, AI as the new UI, glasses as the next wave, Android PCs out of nowhere
- X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme (with up to 18 cores for ultra-premium PCs)
- 3rd Gen Oryon CPU (X2 was 1st gen, last year's phone chip was G2)
- 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
- First Arm chip to hit 5+ GHz
- New Adreno GPU architecture with 2.3x perf per watt and power efficiency over previous gen
- Hexagon NPU with 80 TOPS for "concurrent AI experiences" on Copilot+ PCs
- Supports latest 5G SD X75 modem, Wi-Fi 7, BT 5.4
- 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
- Bad news: First half of 2026 availability
- Not in the press release: The secret of why X2 Elite Extreme is so fast
Xbox
- Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time in 2025
- Here comes the Gaming Copilot on Windows 11
- Google is copying it on Android and bringing Android and native games to Windows now
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Think of 1 story for everyone you care about
- App pick of the week: Notion 3.0
- RunAs Radio this week: Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls
- Brown liquor pick of the week: High Coast Whisky Quercus IV Mongolica
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 55 min - Security Now 1044: The EU's Online Age Verification
- Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.
- Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.
- China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.
- WebAssembly v3.0 officially released.
- Firefox v143 updates and new features.
- Firefox for Android now offers DoH.
- A nearly terminal flaw in Microsoft's Entra ID.
- Chrome hits its 6th 0-day this year. Emergency update.
- DRAM (now DDR5) still vulnerable to RowHammer.
- SAMSUNG kitchen refrigerators begin showing ads.
- China says no to NVIDIA.
- 300 more (new) NPM maliciouspackages found and removed.
- The EU is already testing proper online age verification.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1044-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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3 hr 2 min - MacBreak Weekly 991: The Naughty List
Is the new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max susceptible to scratches? iFixit tears down the new iPhone Air! New immersive films are coming to the Apple Vision Pro. And is TechWoven better than its predecessor, FineWoven?
- iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max units cited as readily susceptible to scratches and scuffs.
- The wafer-thin iPhone Air is surprisingly strong.
- iPhone Air teardown reveals that Apple's thinnest iPhone is still very repairable.
- Apple announces a new set of immersive film releases.
- Apple's new Vision Pro films among first shot on Blackmagic Ursa Cine Immersive Cameras.
- Apple spotted filming in 3D at iPhone 17 launch.
- Two years after the FineWoven fiasco, is TechWoven better?
- New iPhone 17 unveiled in Moscow, as pre-orders jump despite slowing economy.
- Worried about phone searches? 1Password's (a sponsor of the TWiT network) Travel Mode can clean up your data.
- Tap to Pay on iPhone comes to yet more European countries.
- Apple to fix camera glitch affecting iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro.
- Inside the Apple audio lab where AirPods are tested and tuned.
- I went inside Apple's Labs to see how Apple Watch connectivity is tested.
- A19 Pro's Geekbench 6 'Performance Per Watt' analysis; achieves highest multi-core score against all SoCs with 34% better efficiency.
- Memory Integrity Enforcement changes the game on iOS.
- Liquid Glass is causing a disorienting optical illusion for some iPhone users.
- $599 MacBook with iPhone chip expected to enter production this year.
- Apple steps up war of words with European regulators.
- Here's everything Trump is changing with H-1B visas.
Picks of the Week
- Jason's Picks: Final Cut Camera & Final Cut Pro for iPad.
- Alex's Pick: Revopoint MetroX
- Andy's Pick: Epson MX-80 Fonts by Micahel Walden.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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2 hr 21 min - This Week in Tech 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck
Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.
- Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
- I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
- Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
- Windows 10 EOL coming soon
- Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
- 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
- iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
- Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
- A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
- TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
- By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
- Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
- Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
- Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
- ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
- Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
- Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
- Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
- Ig Winners
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon
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2 hr 46 min - Intelligent Machines 837: Could Should Might Don't
With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.
- Interview with Nick Foster
- AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile
- Yann LeCun's mondo preso
- Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers
- Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
- The OpenAI paper on usage
- Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
- ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification
- Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
- A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
- I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
- How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator
- Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs
- The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
- Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over
- How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
- Roadwarden
- David Lynch's quirky house
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Nick Foster
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2 hr 26 min - Windows Weekly 950: Coding Makes Me Cry
With Windows 10's end-of-life looming, Paul and Leo dissect the real risks, questionable hardware requirements, and whether dumping old PCs in landfills is an acceptable trade-off for modern security. Plus, why is Apple finally buying up touchscreen displays for MacBooks after years of resistance, and what could that mean for the future of both Mac and Windows hardware?
Windows
- Consumer Reports asks Microsoft to continue Windows 10 support
- Reminder: Windows 11 25H2 ISOs are available... x64 only, in Insider Preview. Arm version is from Dev channel and is a VHDX
- Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2) - Copilot prompt in Click to Do, Prompt recommendations in Start, controller navigation for gaming handhelds, SCOOBE, agents in the Store, more
- Release Preview (24H2 AND 25H2) - Click to Do table detection, action tags, and Summarize improvements; agent in Settings improvements, Hardware indicator improvements, more
- Quick Machine Recovery is a solid addition to your recovery toolbox
- Microsoft releases Windows 365 Cloud Apps in Preview
- A MacBook with a touch screen? Oh the irony
Microsoft 365
- Microsoft finally settles Teams antitrust case with EU and you're not going to believe what happens next
- Microsoft 365 desktop apps (i.e. "Office") gets Copilot chat even for free - Web grounded? That's ungrounded, right?
- Microsoft 365 commercial pulls in previously separate sales, service, and financial services
- Outlook Lite is heading off to a farm to chase rabbits
- No more Office file editing in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPhone and iPad
AI
- OpenAI and Microsoft hint at another major restructuring of their partnership
- Auto AI model selection comes to Visual Studio Code. Your orchestration is showing
- Visual Studio 2026 on .NET Rocks and the recent news about configuring GitHub Copilot in VS 20xx.
Hardware
- October is going to be a big month for new hardware
- Apple rumored for October
- Google Home on October 1 with Gemini
- Amazon devices (September 30, close enough)
- Where are the next-gen PC chips?
Xbox & games
- Third-party store integration comes to Xbox app on Windows
- Microsoft kicks off another big half month for Xbox Game Pass
- Epic Games can't stop beating Google in court
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: Improve Windows 11 security
- App pick of the week: Google app for Windows
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott
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2 hr 30 min - Security Now 1043: Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple just rewrote the rules of device security with a chip-level upgrade that could wipe out most iPhone vulnerabilities overnight. Find out how "memory integrity enforcement" aims to make exploits a thing of the past—and why it took half a decade to pull off.
- Are Bitcoin ATMs anything more than scamming terminals.
- Ransomware hits the Uvalde school district and Jaguar.
- Did "Scattered LapSus Hunters" just throw in the towel.
- Germany, for one, to vote "no" on Chat Control.
- Russia's new MAX messenger has startup troubles.
- Samsung follows Apple's WhatsApp patch chain.
- Shocker: UK school hacks are mostly by students.
- HackerOne was hacked.
- Connected washing machines in Amsterdam hacked.
- DDoS breaks another record.
- Bluesky to implement conditional age verification.
- Enforcement actions for Global Privacy Control.
- Might Apple have finally beaten vulnerabilities
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1043-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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2 hr 52 min - MacBreak Weekly 990: Eating the Cake at Both Ends
Shelly Brisbin joins the show this week! Who got which of the new devices that were announced at last week's Apple event? Reviews of the latest OS 26 operating systems are starting to roll out. Should you get the iPhone Air? And Apple scored big at the recent Emmys with 22 wins!
- iOS 26 Review: Through a glass, liquidly.
- Help, I have been charmed by the iPhone Air.
- The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think.
- Siri just got five surprise iOS 26 features, here's what's new.
- Apple's Outstanding Comedy The Studio sweeps as the most-winning freshman comedy in Emmy history...
- visionOS 26 now available starting today: Here's what's new for Apple Vision Pro.
- Today in Apple history: Steve Jobs leaves and rejoins Apple.
Picks of the Week
- Shelly's Pick: Case for Vision
- Andy's Pick: NotebookLM Web Importer
- Alex's Picks: Carrot Weather & Tenganda Tea
- Leo's Pick: pico-mac-nano
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko
Guest: Shelly Brisbin
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2 hr 21 min - This Week in Tech 1049: Gas Station Lafufu
- iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote
- Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
- Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
- The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
- What to expect from Meta Connect
- SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
- Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
- Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package
- Gen Z protests in Nepal, sparked by a social media ban, have killed nearly 2 dozen and injured hundreds. Here's what to know
- Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they're coming for your time and money
- Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age
- Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case
- Geek News Central Mourns the Loss of Todd Cochrane
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Dan Patterson, Victoria Song, and Jason Hiner
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3 hr 6 min - Intelligent Machines 836: I See OJ and He Looks Scared
AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."
- Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
- Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
- AI Watchdog
- At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
- Most Scraped Websites of 2025
- AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
- Alterego
- I Hate My Friend
- R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot
- Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
- OpenAI's post on the paper
- Gina Trappani starts a new blog
- Schnitzel press
- NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million
- Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Harper Reed
Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
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