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August 27, 2025Windows Weekly 947: Hallucinated Clown Shoes
Protesters take over Microsoft's Building 34, objecting to the company's technology being allegedly used by Israel. Is it more than simply cybersecurity usage, and how is Microsoft handling employee activism? In other news, Gemini suddenly vaults to the front of AI image editing capability, and the OG Gears of War has been remastered at least twice (but now it's cross-platform).
Windows 11
Resume from your (Android) phone in testing in Dev and Beta channels

Copilot app gets semantic search and new home page across all Insider channels

25H2 feature focus: Administrator Protection probably works but it's more disruptive than even UAC was

Windows 11 gets a nice Bluetooth quality update

Parallels Desktop 26 for Mac is out, but it's a minor update for individuals
Microsoft 365
Microsoft to fix one of the biggest issues with Word

Reminder: OneNote for Windows 10 hits EOL in October
AI
Apple's AI floundering continues as it considers a Perplexity or Mistral acquisition

And tests a Gemini AI model for Siri in-house

Perplexity offers a $5 per month Comet Plus subscription that pays content makers

Anthropic sort of brings Claude extension to Chrome

NotebookLM audio and video overviews are now available in over 80 languages

And AI Mode is now available in Search in over 180 countries

Norton's AI web browser gets off to a rough start

Proton Lumo gets a big update

Rant: The real problem with the Windows 2030 talk, and why everyone (on both sides) is wrong about AI
Dev
Microsoft lets Visual Studio devs tune-down GitHub Copilot, finally

Microsoft makes some progress with improving Windows App SDK, supposedly
Xbox and gaming
Xbox Cloud Gaming expands to Xbox Game Pass Core Standard, adds PC games for the first time

Steam and other stores come to Xbox app on PC

Activision says it will reverse some of the stupidity it introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Nintendo invented the 30 percent fee that's still common today in digital app/game stores, but when it did so, the fee actually made sense... and it still does today, but only for the videogame industry
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Edit images with Gemini

Tip of the week: Subscribe to Chris's new newsletter, The Windows ReadMe

App pick of the week: Gears of War

App pick of the week: NVIDIA Broadcast app

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

Guest: Chris Hoffman

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2 hr 49 min
August 26, 2025Security Now 1040: Clickjacking "Whac-A-Mole"
Alarm bells are ringing over a supposed browser zero-day, but is the threat as bad as it sounds? Steve reveals why "clickjacking" might be more whac-a-mole than breaking news, and what that really means for your passwords.

• Germany may soon outlaw ad blockers

• What's happening in the courts over AI

• The U.K. drops its demands of Apple

• New Microsoft 365 tenants being throttled

• Is Russia preparing to block Google Meet?

• Bluesky suspends its service in Mississippi

• How to throttle AI

• A tricky SSH-busting Go library

• Here comes the Linux desktop malware

• Apple just patched a doozy of a vulnerability

• A trivial Docker escape was found and fixed

• Why the recent browser 0-day clickjacking is really just whac-a-mole

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1040-notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 52 min
August 26, 2025MacBreak Weekly 987: As Gruber as It Gets
Apple's "Awe dropping" event is set for September 9th. Developer beta 8 of iOS 216, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26 has been released. Apple TV+ is hiking its monthly user price. And Masimo sues US Customs over Apple's Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround.
Apple September Event invites have officially gone out.

iPhone 17 countdown begins as Foxconn ramps up factory hiring in China.

Apple seeds developer beta 8 of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26.

MacOS 26 Tahoe's dead canary utility app Icons.

Apple may back out of MLB entirely as NBC closes in on 'Sunday Night Baseball' rights.

Apple TV+ hiking price, will now cost $13 per month in U.S.

Masimo was last to learn about blood oxygen sensing returning to Apple Watch.

FTC draws hard line on foreign-driven censorship & data demands for Big Tech.

Apple Wallet in iOS 26 adds a toggle to disable controversial feature.

HBO Max launches new Harry Potter immersive environment on Apple Vision Pro.

'F1' & 'Superman' top $600M global; 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' killing it overseas.

Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple over claims it favors OpenAI.

Apple patches CVE-2025-43300 zero-day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS exploited in targeted attacks.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: Nic's Fix

Andy's Pick: Studs Terkel

Alex's Pick: Bitrig

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

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2 hr 14 min
August 24, 2025This Week in Tech 1046: Shrimpspiracy
You should buy a faster CPU

The Trump-Intel deal is official

Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban

Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief

Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft

Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration

Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years

Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11

Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

Sports streaming enters a bold new era

Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'

Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series

German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers

Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision

More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 46 min
August 20, 2025Intelligent Machines 833: The Most Popular S3 Bucket Ever
AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble

Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?

Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)

How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary

YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars

Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action

So ... is AI writing any good?

Project Indigo

We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Rich Skrenta

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3 hr 9 min
August 20, 2025Windows Weekly 946: Backing up the Intel Truck
Leo, Paul, and Richard break down Google's Pixel 10 launch spectacle, poking fun at celebrity overkill and asking whether anyone actually cares about new phones anymore. Plus, they dig into Lenovo's record-breaking quarter, surprising shifts in the PC market, and the ongoing struggle between innovation and copycatting in the AI arms race. Also, Notion has finally added basic offline support, which should make it stickier than ever.
You got your AI in my Windows
Pavan Davuluri discusses how AI will impact the Windows user experience

Not the same video series as the previous "vision" video

Davuluri leads Windows and Surface, so his words matter

Changing: Interactions, business models, experiences

Multimodal - in this case, meaning adding natural language interactions and vision to keyboard, mouse, touch, pen, etc. - "experience diversity"

Powerful AI models running on-device are "transformational"

Predictably, the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on.
Windows 11
Semantic search and new Copilot home page for all Insiders

Click to Do selection modes, minor improvements in Beta and Dev

Recall and other Copilot+ PC features FINALLY come to Canary

A few minor additions to Canary, nothing new to everyone else

Notepad is getting an updated context menu and the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on!

Lenovo earnings up 22 percent, best PC market share ever, number one in AI PCs too
AI
Google Chrome takes the subtle approach

Brave found a major security vulnerability in Comet

Like my wife, Gemini remembers everything I ever said now

Duck.ai gets GPT-5 Mini access, web search results

Grammarly announces CODA-based editor, several AI agents
Xbox and games
Another stunning Windows on Arm development

The Xbox app actually works now on Windows 11 on Arm, meaning not just game streaming but also downloads. Except, of course, that it mostly doesn't work

Heretic/Hexen installs and runs great

Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to launch on October 16

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with four-player co-op campaign

Indiana Jones coming to the Switch 2

Gears of War: Reloaded, more coming to Game Pass in late August

To help Xbox, Sony raises prices on the PS5

GeForce Now gets more powerful cloud GPUs
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide, 25H2 Edition is on the way

App pick of the week: Notion

RunAs Radio this week: Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom

Brown liquor pick of the week: Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 5 min
August 19, 2025Security Now 1039: The Sad Case of ScriptCase
What AI website summaries mean for Internet economics.

Time to urgently update Plex Servers (again).

Allianz Life stolen data gets leaked.

Chrome test Incognito-mode fingerprint script blocking.

Chrome 140 additions coming in 2 weeks.

Data brokers hide opt-out pages from search engines.

Secure messaging changes in Russia.

NIST rolls-out lightweight IoT crypto.

SyncThing moves to v2.0 and beyond.

Alien:Earth -- first take.

What can we learn from another critical vulnerability?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1039-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 52 min
August 19, 2025MacBreak Weekly 986: Movies on the Moon
A slew of Apple's planned upcoming products got leaked in software code! Blood Oxygen for the Apple Watch is back, but with a unique twist. Are the upcoming iPhone 17s for the U.S. market all manufactured in India? And Samsung is slowly taking more market share from Apple with the growing demand for folding and slimmer phones.
Liquid Glass. Why?

Every Apple secret that leaked Wednesday.

Leaked S11 chip details reveal no major performance upgrades for 2025 Apple Watches.

U.S. Apple Watches get blood-oxygen sensor reprieve.

Explore the Disney+ 'Alien: Earth' immersive environment with the Apple Vision Pro now.

Apple code suggests Touch ID could be coming to Apple Watch.

Apple preps native Claude integration on Xcode.

Apple expands iPhone production in India for US-bound new models.

Apple workshop on privacy-preserving machine learning 2025.

Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum.

It's Google's turn to convince us to care about AI on our phones.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: EOOUT Mesh Zipper Pouch Bags

Andy's Pick: Tot from Iconfactory

Alex's Pick: Voyage Dante 2nd Order Ambisonic Mic

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

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2 hr 20 min
August 17, 2025This Week in Tech 1045: The Juice Ain't Worth the Squeeze
Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t

The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform

Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower

Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays

Elli-q

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale

PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents

Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X

Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Sam Abuelsamid, and Lisa Schmeiser

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3 hr 7 min
August 13, 2025Intelligent Machines 832: Surrounded by Zuck
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons

David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X

A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise

Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn

Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over

Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Two-mile suspension bridge

Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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3 hr 17 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.