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September 10, 2025Windows Weekly 949: How Do I Get Back to Windows 7?
Windows 11 just dropped one of its biggest updates yet, but new features and relentless AI integrations are making right-click menus bigger—and more confusing—than ever. Is Windows getting better, or just busier?

Windows 11

• Patch Tuesday arrives with several new features for all Windows 11 users

• A few new features added for Copilot+ PCs

• This may be the last cumulative update before 25H2

Windows Insider

• New Canary build includes features we've seen before

• Copilot+ PCs bring Windows Studio Effects to secondary cameras in Dev and Beta channels

Hardware

• 40-year Intel veteran now leads PC chips business

• Paul's continued criticism of Lunar Lake problems

• Lenovo's three IFA concept devices should become shipping products

Apps

• Atlassian acquires The Browser Company, potentially threatening the Dia browser

Microsoft

• Microsoft mandates employees return to office three days per week

• Microsoft accused of "gross cybersecurity negligence"

Dev

• Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC

• First Visual Studio 2026 preview now available

• Individual developers can register for Microsoft Store for free

Mobile

• Google ships Android 16 QPR1 with Material 3 Expressive on Pixel devices plus September Pixel Drop

• Apple announces iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and new Apple Watches

• Comparison of OS updating styles between Apple, Google, and Microsoft and their impact on hardware upgrades

AI

• Microsoft to pay almost $20 billion for third-party AI infrastructure

• Microsoft may turn to Anthropic for Office apps

• Anthropic settles with book authors, then judge rejects the settlement (Apple faces similar lawsuit)

• Google details all Gemini tier offerings

• Firefox will use Apple Intelligence on iPhones with iOS 26

Xbox and Games

• Lenovo Legion Go 2 coming in October with new Xbox Ally OS in early 2026

• Xbox to announce games at Tokyo Game Show on September 25

• Xbox Cloud Gaming coming to select cars

• PlayStation 6 will be modular

Tips and Picks

• Something to read: iWar by Tim Higgins

• Something to watch: New Dave Plumber interview on YouTube

• Something to get for free: Microsoft 365 free for US students for one year

• Something to plan for: Proton offers emergency access on accounts

• RunAs Radio this week: Training for AI with Stephanie Donahue

• Brown liquor pick of the week: Boplaas 8 Single Grain Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 40 min
September 09, 2025Security Now 1042: Letters of Marque
Is the U.S. on the verge of legalizing "hack back" missions, turning private companies into sanctioned cyber warriors? Steve and Leo unpack Google's plan for a cyber disruption unit and why the lines between defense and digital retaliation are suddenly blurring.
My experience with 'X' vs email.

Google TIG blackmailed to fire two security researchers.

1.1.1.1 DNS TLS certificate mis-issued.

Artists blackmailed with threats of training AI on their art.

Firefox extended end-of-life for Windows 7 to next March.

Is the renewal of cybersecurity info sharing coming soon.

Should security analysis be censored due to vibe-coding.

UK versus Apple may not be settled after all.

Another very serious supply chain attack.

Can the software supply-chain ever be trustworthy.

Why did BYTE Magazine die.

What happens if Google and others go on the attack

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1042-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 56 min
September 09, 2025MacBreak Weekly 989: Orange Is the New Black
The Apple Event just concluded, and the MacBreak Weekly panel is ready to discuss what was announced at the event! New AI features are coming to the AirPods Pro 3. Apple unveiled its long-rumored iPhone Air, its slimmest iPhone yet. And the iPhone 17 Pro officially shows off its new bold orange color option for its premium lineup.
Introducing AirPods Pro 3, the ultimate audio experience

Apple introduces Apple Watch SE 3.

Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 11, featuring groundbreaking health insights.

Introducing Apple Watch Ultra 3.

Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the most powerful and advanced Pro models ever.

Introducing iPhone Air, a powerful new iPhone with a breakthrough design.

Apple debuts iPhone 17.

Instagram finally comes to iPad.

Adobe's Premiere video editor is coming to iPhone for free.

All the President's Tech CEOs.

Apple triumphs with 15 wins at night one of the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards as "The Studio" and "Severance" lead for comedy and drama.

Steve Hayden, writer behind Apple's pivotal '1984' commercial, dies at 78.

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 24 min
September 07, 2025This Week in Tech 1048: Tiny Steering Wheel
Google walks away from another monopoly ruling with barely a scratch, while tech giants gather at the White House to praise a president who holds their futures in the balance. Inside, our panel questions whether "playing the game on the field" is killing tech innovation and U.S. privacy for good.
Google avoids harshest penalties in landmark search monopoly ruling

Google fined $3.5 billion by EU over ad-tech business

Probe finds Houston police using surveillance tool like a search engine

iPhone 17 specifications leak, 'Air' model rumors, and what to expect at Apple's Awe Dropping' event

Instagram coming to iPad after 15 years

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright claims

Apple accused of training AI models on pirated books

Trump hosts tech CEOs at first event in newly renovated Rose Garden

Postal traffic to the US down over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

Satellite companies like SpaceX ignore astronomers' calls to save the night sky

Microsoft says Azure service affected by damaged Red Sea cables

Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook poke after 21 years

Fake celebrity chatbots send risqué messages to teens on top AI app

First brain-wide map of decision-making charted in mice

NVIDIA's sale-and-leaseback chip schemes raise questions about AI bubble

Tesla changes meaning of 'full self-driving' and gives up on autonomy promise

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million

Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement in major legal battle

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm and Harry McCracken

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2 hr 48 min
September 03, 2025Intelligent Machines 835: Glitch Lord
Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation.
Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions

OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power

Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates

OpenAI's founders dissected: Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever's styles and motives

Critiquing the AI industry's resource grabs and "AI imperialism"

How commercialization narrowed AI research and the dominance of transformers

China's AI threat as Silicon Valley's favorite justification, debunked

Karen Hao details reporting process and boardroom chaos at OpenAI

GPT-5 skepticism: raised expectations, lackluster reality, and demo fatigue

Karen Hao's bottom line: AI's current trajectory isn't inevitable — pushback is needed

Harper Reed shares vibe coding workflows using Claude Code 

AI commoditization—why all major models start to feel the same 

Western vs. Chinese open-source models and global AI power shifts 

Google antitrust ruling: AI's rise dissolves traditional search monopoly

"Algorithm movies" spark debate over art, entertainment, and AI's creative impact 

Meta's AI talent grab backfires amid exits and cash-fueled drama

Anthropic's "historic" author settlement likely cements fair use for AI training 

DIY facial recognition: Citizen activists unmask ICE using AI tools 

Picks: Byte Magazine's 50th, AI werewolf games, Berghain bouncer AI test, and arthouse film

"Perfect Days"
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guest: Karen Hao

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2 hr 45 min
September 03, 2025Windows Weekly 948: Netflix Tears
Paul Thurrott is in Berlin this week for IFA 2025! With AI models multiplying across devices and Microsoft plotting a post-OpenAI future, Paul and Richard debate whether Copilot and local AI finally hint at what's next for your PC. Paul also reacts to the surprising Google antitrust ruling, questioning whether judges are truly willing to rein in Big Tech or just maintain the status quo. Has the battle for online competition already been lost?
Windows 11
Four new builds issued in the Insider Program at the same time (rare)

Dev and Beta: New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Braille Viewer, more Share changes

Canary: Nothing to see here, move along

The Mobile Plans app you never used in Windows 11 is going away

Windows Backup for Organizations is here

Dolby Vision 2 is on the way

Dell hits record revenues, but not because of PCs - PC revenues $12.5 billion, up 1 percent

HP revenues up 3.1 percent and it is because of PCs - PC revenues $9.9 billion, up 6 percent

Reminder that Lenovo is curiously dominant in this market - PC revenues $13.5 billion, up 18 percent
Antitrust
Google unexpectedly given a pass on egregious antitrust violations

"We don't do these things because they are hard"
Ensh*ttification
Amazon begins restricting the ability to share Prime free shipping within a household

This, from the company that makes you pay to remove ads from a video service you're already paying for

YouTube is changing what it means to be in household
This week from the misinformation files
Microsoft denied that it had anything to do with SSD fails

Google denies that it warned 2.8 billion Gmail users about anything

If it happened online, it must be real
AI
Microsoft AI releases its first-ever in-house models and one is quite mysterious

Copilot is coming to make your smart TVs dumber

Anthropic will now train Claude on user data unless you opt out

NVIDIA is still doing pretty well financially

The Pixel 10 series phones are all about AI

Camera Coach

It's fascinating to reexamine the initial Pixel launch for its forward-leaning looks at AI, computational photography, and more
Xbox and games
Xbox August Update brings a few interesting new features

Activision inks deal to make a Call of Duty movie

Hollow Knight: Silksong and more are coming to Game Pass in first half of September
Tips & picks
Tip of the week

App pick of the week: Vivaldi

RunAs Radio this week: Episode 1000!

Brown liquor pick of the week: Canadian Club 1858 Original

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 58 min
September 02, 2025Security Now 1041: Covering All the Bases
When even the Department of Defense can't properly vet its software dependencies, what chance do the rest of us have? Steve Gibson reveals how "fast-glob" became a case study in supply chain blindness, explores whether AI can ever truly be controlled after Meta's celebrity chatbot disaster, and celebrates BYTE Magazine's 50th anniversary with a look at how far we've come (and how vulnerable we still are).
A look back at issue #1 of BYTE magazine exactly 50 years ago

The enforcement of the SHAKEN & STIR Telecom protocols

Breaking: Judge rules against forced Google divestitures in monopoly case

The inherent danger of consolidating authentication

Can AI be controlled?

Vivaldi says a big "no" to AI-enhanced web browsers

How WhatsApp figured into Apple's recent 0-day attacks

Leveraging AI as an attack aid

The latest TransUnion data breach

Two scummy websites sue the UK over age requirements

OpenSSH reminds its users to adopt post-quantum crypto

The DOD uses open source maintained by a Russian national

Much great feedback from our terrific listeners

Sci-Fi news from "The Frontiers Saga" Ryk Brown

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1041-notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 4 min
September 02, 2025MacBreak Weekly 988: Clothes by the Pound
The MacBreak Weekly panel is patiently waiting for Apple's September event! A story about stolen luggage at LAX being recovered thanks to an Apple AirTag diverges into a spirited discussion on clothing and luggage. And Apple could be prepared to drop its largest case redesign for the iPhone 17, including a spiritual successor to the FineWoven material.
Apple plans AirPods feature that can live-translate conversations.

Upgrade 579: The 2025 September Event Draft.

Stolen luggage at LAX recovered thanks to Apple AirTag.

Apple taking half of TSMC's 2nm chip capacity when production hits full speed.

France's unnecessary iPhone 12 RF patch is spreading across Europe.

Apple may be readying the largest case redesign yet for iPhone 17.

New 'Vision Air': Here's how much lighter and less expensive it might be.

You can try Apple's lightning-fast video captioning model right from your browser.

Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones.

Apple Music radio stations are now available outside of Apple Music for the first time.

Adafruit Fruit Jam – An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh - CNX Software.

Zoom wins broadcast Emmy.
Picks of the Week
Leo's Pick: Vintage Apple

Jason's Picks: The Nomad Leather Mag Wallet with Find My & Sport Band for Apple Watch

Andy's Pick: Blitzortung

Alex's Pick: OWC Thunderblade X12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 15 min
August 31, 2025This Week in Tech 1047: Nerd Harder!
Cloudflare's latest moves to police who can access the internet and governments' push for age verification set off alarms for the future of the open web, as panelists debate the hidden costs of centralization and regulation.
Microsoft fires four workers for on-site protests over company's ties to Israel

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification law

UK's Online Safety Act censors the internet — a preview of US proposal

Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen user

Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its service

UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously though

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback

FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers

The web does not need gatekeepers

Intel warns a US equity stake could trigger "adverse reactions"

US firms are racing through a $1 trillion buyback spree in record time

Microsoft reveals two in-house AI models

Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

A rule exempting small packages from tariffs is ending today

Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops

Germany fines economist Thomas Vierhaus €16,100 for sarcastic X posts

Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers' identities

South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Cory Doctorow, and Louis Maresca

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2 hr 55 min
August 27, 2025Intelligent Machines 834: Gewgaw
Interview with M.G. Siegler.

Google improves Gemini AI image editing with "Nano Banana" model.

THIS is why large language models can understand the world.

Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.

We must build AI for people; not to be a person.

AI "deadbots" are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.

AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.

College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.

Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.

There are two types of dishwasher people.

Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?

Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated "freelancer".

The South Slope Derby.

Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.

TikTok.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: M.G. Siegler

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2 hr 42 min

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