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August 13, 2025Windows Weekly 945: Vermont? Seriously?
Patch Tuesday was yesterday, so find out what's new! Plus, two of the best-ever Doom engine games are now available in remastered form (4K/120 FPS, new episodes, cross-play, multiplayer, more) on Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC (Windows), PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam, GOG, and various cloud streaming services. It's a free update if you already own either game. Also, if you have a local library, you should use it. If only for Libby by Overdrive free audiobooks and free access to periodicals. But then be surprised by all the services they offer!
Windows 11
Copilot+ PCs: Recall comes to the EU, Recall Reset, Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings

All: Quick Machine Recovery, black screen of death, Snap layouts improvements, Gamepad layout for Windows Touch Keyboard

Blender is now native on Windows 11 on Arm

Search settings consolidation in Canary

Mobile device companion sidebar for Start gets a new layout in Dev

More Control Panel settings move to Settings app in Dev and Beta
Windows 10
Consumer ESU licenses will support up to 10 PCs

Microsoft will support Edge on Windows 10 through October 2028 (as expected)
AI
OpenAI releases GPT-5 but not everyone loves it

Quickly brought back GPT-4o

And now the model picker is back, for now

Microsoft is adding it everywhere, of course, and Apple says it will add to Apple Intelligence - And Bing just added support for GPT-4o image creation

Perplexity makes unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome

Comet - New tab page with Chat, can choose a Google Search as you type, Assistant in a sidebar, Summarize webpage/document, voice dictation, voice mode, big feature is website interactivity

Microsoft Edge in Copilot Mode - most evolutionary update, new New Tab page, Quick assist with Copilot button location change, Simple task handoff (which needs work), Voice navigation

But some bigger UI changes are on the way

Dia (Mac only for now) - Also, there's a Pro subscription - New Tab page with chat and an attempt at orchestration, @mentions for tabs, Skills (built-in, can edit, can make you're own), and personalization

Next up: Opera Neon - And what is Google doing with Chrome?

Copilot 3D can turn images into 3D models - It's a "Creators Update"!

Microsoft is EOLing the Lens app - use Microsoft Copilot 365 app instead
Microsoft/Surface
GitHub CEO is leaving, Microsoft is rolling GitHub into its Core AI organization

Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 get firmware update to add battery charging modes
Xbox and games
Sony sold 2.5 million PS5s in quarter, now over 80 million cumulatively

Microsoft rumored to have sold only 21 to 29 million Xbox Series X|S consoles

Big Windows 11 on Arm updates!

Game downloading is coming to Xbox app on Windows 11 on Arm

Epic Games and Qualcomm bring Easy Anti-Cheat to Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X

Apple and Google have illegal mobile app store monopolies in Australia, so Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone there via Epic Games Store

Microsoft is updating Xbox Dashboard and app to show game trials and demos in "Free with Xbox" section

Microsoft has paused the production of Contraband

Steam for Chromebooks Beta will never leave beta, discontinuing in January instead
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Go to the library

App pick of the week: Heretic and Hexen

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/945

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2 hr 54 min
August 12, 2025Security Now 1038: Perplexity's Duplicity
CISA's Emergency Directive to ALL Federal agencies re: SharePoint.

NVIDIA firmly says "no" to any embedded chip gimmicks.

Dashlane is terminating its (totally unusable) free tier.

Malicious repository libraries are becoming even more hostile.

The best web filter (uBlock Origin) comes to Safari.

The very popular SonicWall firewall is being compromised.

>100 models of Dell Latitude and Precision laptops are in danger.

The significant challenge of patching SharePoint (for example).

A quick look at my DNS Benchmark progress.

Does InControl prevent an important update.

An venerable Sci-Fi franchise may be getting a great new series.

What to do about the problem of AI "website sucking"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1038-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 4 min
August 12, 2025MacBreak Weekly 985: Debasement Meter
Low-cost MacBooks could begin production soon, with a release period for early 2026. The developer beta for iOS 26 Beta 6 is out now. Could the iPhone 17 be introduced with a higher price point? And Alex Lindsay is excited to play with a new camera to record Vision Pro content.
Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing.

Apple's MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED might not launch until 2027.

Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain.

Apple will bring GPT-5 to Apple Intelligence in iOS, iPad OS and macOS 26.

Everything New in iOS 26 [dev] Beta 6.

AirPods could soon get Live Translation, iOS 26 beta code suggests.

iPhone 17 models 'likely' to have higher prices, another analyst says.

Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon.

Japan law is forcing more browser choice on iPhone in December.

Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct.
Picks of the Week:
Andy's Pick: DockLite Board

Alex's Pick: The BlackMagic Immersive Camera

Jason's Pick: Instapaper

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

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2 hr 29 min
August 10, 2025This Week in Tech 1044: Elephants on the Moon
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions

Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac

Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper

Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain

Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift

Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?

Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer

San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner

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2 hr 44 min
August 06, 2025Intelligent Machines 831: 9 Seconds of Google
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models

Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop

Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data

Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay

Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.

When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....

AI vegans

Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code

Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of

Good guy humpback whales

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Vlad Prelovac

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2 hr 39 min
August 06, 2025Windows Weekly 944: Shakin' the Treats
Microsoft's fiscal year ended on a high note, assuming you didn't just get laid off. WinSAT's formal assessment will give you some interesting PC performance information, similar to the old WEI score from Windows Vista. And Proton finally makes a standalone authenticator app; How to transition from whatever you're currently using and why you'll need to keep using Microsoft Authenticator too.
Microsoft Earning
Quarterly: net income of $27.2 billion on revenues of $76.4 billion. Those figures represent gains of 24 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)

Annual: a net income of $101.8 billion (up 16 percent YOY) on revenues of $281.7 billion (up 15 percent)

Another look at layoffs, which are nothing new under Satya Nadella - Over 17,000 in CY 2025 so far, despite over $100 billion in profits in FY

Headcount "unchanged" YOY

Big announcements below were likely made to avoid Qs about layoffs and it almost worked

AI spending in FY was about $85 billion, higher than promised

AI spending in this quarter will jump to $30 billion (!!!!)

Azure earned $75 billion in revenues in FY, its first-ever disclosure of this number - Fun with math, that means $56 billion in revenues in previous FY. How far back can we go?

Microsoft's market cap exceeded $4 trillion after earnings release

"Copilot" has over 100 million MAUs, really M365 Copilot, which even Nadella thinks is a new M365 tier

GitHub Copilot has over 20 million MAUs, probably most are free

HUGE gains in Microsoft Gaming/Xbox, discussed below
Windows 11
But first, something completely different: Microsoft's "vision" for Windows in 2030

David Weston a curious choice for this video, first in a series - he's in security

Daily work life changes thanks to AI - less toil work, less eyes and more talking, multimodal interactions

Security - customers want appliance-level security, "it just works" security -

Degenerates into a general security discussion

Back to AI, reclaiming our lives

Windows 11 SE, RIP - We hardly knew you. Literally.

Insider: Changes to Home view in File Explorer for Work and School sign-ins, Settings app changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)
More earnings
AMD - HUGE gains in its PC businesses!

Qualcomm up 10%

Apple up 9.6%

Amazon up 13%
AI & dev
OpenAI releases its first open-weight reasoning models and Microsoft gives them away for free

Apple is trying to Sherlock ChatGPT

Of course Alexa+ will get ads

Dev: Microsoft has a native app problem on Windows

Microsoft says it will fix Windows App SDK

Paul just switched .NETpad to the Windows App SDK and can confirm it's a nightmare

WPF is half-assed... and last year, it took Microsoft over 9 months to deliver the first Windows Copilot Runtime capabilities to devs, but you still can't use this in production. Also, it's not called that anymore
Xbox & games
Microsoft Gaming has over 500 million MAUs - More fun with math

COD has 50 million MAUs

Microsoft has nearly 40 games in development

Xbox Game Pass has $5 billion in revenues in FY, over 500 million hours played in FY

Gaming Copilot (Beta) is available on Game Bar for Windows PC for Xbox Insiders enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview

Assassin's Creed Mirage and more coming to Game Pass this month

OG Switch models now cost more thanks to tariffs
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week:

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/944

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 34 min
August 05, 2025Security Now 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP
A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.

How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.

"Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.

Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.

YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.

Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.

A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.

A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.

What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.

An update on "Artemis".

With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1037-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 48 min
August 05, 2025MacBreak Weekly 984: Wessonality
Apple's Q3 2025 results are here, and Jason Snell has the charts generated and ready to go! Tim Cook holds a rare company-wide meeting to talk about AI. Could Visa take over the Apple Card from Mastercard? And Google is making fun of the delay of Apple Intelligence & Siri in its latest Pixel 10 ad!
Apple Q3 2025 results and charts: $95B revenue.

Apple CEO tells staff AI is 'ours to grab' in hourlong pep talk.

Apple's new 'Answers' team eyes ChatGPT-like product in AI push.

Google makes fun of Apple Intelligence Siri delay in ad promoting Pixel 10.

Tim Cook has now been Apple's CEO for longer than Steve Jobs.

Visa offers Apple roughly $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard.

macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 retires the old Macintosh HD icon.

Japan mandates Apple must allow third-party app stores and payment systems.

Man controls iPad with his mind using Synchron brain implant.

Apple TV+ continues push into original podcasting with Unicorn Girl.

New Apple TV still launching this year.

Pico Mac Nano no longer sold assembled due to Apple.

David Pogue announces 'Apple: The First 50 Years' book.
Picks of the Week:
Leo's Pick: uBlock Origin Lite

Andy's Pick: LisaGUI

Jason's Pick: Anova Sous Vide

Alex's Pick: Nugs

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2 hr 17 min
August 03, 2025This Week in Tech 1043: It All Starts With Baby Shark
A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash

Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021

Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push

Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'

Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.

Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'

AI Capex is Eating the Economy

Will data centers crash the economy?

What content strategy looks like in the age of AI

Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump

How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything

Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan

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2 hr 55 min
July 30, 2025Intelligent Machines 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy
Interview with Ian Krietzberg

Leo's shows off his new AI toys

Paris unveils her new desk setup

Personal Superintelligence

You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang

Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content

Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip

The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk

Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster

Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show

This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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2 hr 53 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.