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July 30, 2025Windows Weekly 943: Five Paperclips
Ten years ago yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10, fixing the issues with Windows 8.x and giving Windows 7 users a solid upgrade. One historical curiosity: It was the first Windows release without a major launch event. In other news, Microsoft publishes a Nadella email to the troops about the layoffs, but he never really addresses the layoffs.
Windows 10 turns 10
The Bad: Its legacy is mixed, as this is when the enshittification of Windows began, really

Windows as a Service

Ads, crapware, and telemetry — plus some made-up privacy issues

Terry Myerson gaff about one billion users

Universal apps/One Windows was a bust, with Windows Phone and HoloLens failures

Windows 10's launch was a missed opportunity to make the Store matter

The Good: Windows Subsystem for Linux was huge

WinGet was also huge, but is underappreciated and underutilized to this day

It did reverse the mistakes of Windows 8, and in time it got more stable as Microsoft figured out WaaS (and then went on to abuse it)

Oh, and the Windows 10 Field Guide is free to celebrate the anniversary
Windows 11
Microsoft is using Rust for Surface drivers, and it wants all Windows drivers to switch to Rust too

The Link to Windows app is getting a nice upgrade on Android

Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2): Settings agent for x86, SCOOBE changes, Click to Do improvements, Windows Search improvements

Canary: Just a couple of bug fixes (Actually, two builds, one today also with no features)

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder are Now Native on Windows 11 on Arm in beta

Opera files antitrust case against Microsoft in Brazil for Windows 11/Edge behaviors

Another app blocking Recall in a slow-drop of negative Recall-related AI privacy news for Microsoft.

Rant: More importantly, Recall is boring and not useful given the hype around it.

Intel earnings are flat, but more layoffs are on the way

Lenovo rollable laptop in action! (ThinkBook Plus Gen 6)

Lenovo makes a lot of weird laptops now (like the dual-screen Yoga Book 9i Paul reviewed last year) — apparently they didn't get the message after Microsoft cancelled the Surface Neo and Windows 10X.

Does the average modern Windows laptop really need a touchscreen? Is this a relic of the Windows 8 era?
AI & Microsoft 365
Perplexity Comet is real and it shows the way forward for AI web browsers

Coincidentally, Microsoft suddenly launches Copilot mode for Microsoft Edge. (But I've played with Copilot Mode, and it's no Comet or Dia.)

Copilot is getting real-time expressions. It's the return of Clippy!

Microsoft's long-term Copilot plans are a lot wilder than you might expect

Google earned $96.4 billion in one quarter. This shows that it has not been impacted by other AIs yet
Xbox & gaming
Xbox is coming to Gamerscom in Germany in August, and it's bringing the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds

The July Xbox Update is here and it's all about the PC

Paul reviewed the Lenovo Legion Go S, and the Windows experience was so bad. Also, PC OEMs are having trouble competing with the Steam Deck's pricing on gaming handhelds.
Tips & picks
Tips of the week: Chris and Paul are partnering on his new newsletter

App pick of the week: Perplexity Pro

Beer pick of the week: Alesong Rhino Suit

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/943

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

Guest: Chris Hoffman
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2 hr 48 min
July 29, 2025Security Now 1036: Inside the SharePoint 0-day
Brave randomizes its fingerprints.

The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default.

Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages.

6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear.

Warfare has significantly become cyber.

Allianz Life loses control of 125 million customers' data.

The CIA's Acquisition Research Center website was hacked.

The Pentagon says the SharePoint RCE didn't get them.

A look at a DPRK "laptop farm" to impersonate Americans.

FIDO's passkey was NOT bypassed by a MITM after all.

Is our data safe anywhere?

The UK is trying to back-pedal out of the Apple ADP mess.

Meanwhile, the EU resumes its push for "Chat Control".

Microsoft fumbled the patch of a powerful Pwn2Own exploit

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1036-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 59 min
July 29, 2025MacBreak Weekly 983: The Saggy Quarter
The public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and others are available now. A new feature in iOS 26 could help filter spam messages more effectively. Will Chase be the new home for the Apple Card? And is Apple's new AppleCare One service worth it for you?
Does iPadOS 26 steer the iPad in the wrong direction?

First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta.

iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new.

Apple's iOS 26 text filters could cost political campaigns millions of dollars, top GOP group warns.

JPMorgan Chase is the hot favorite for Apple Card takeover.

AppleCare One launches as a single plan to cover multiple Apple devices.

First look: Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive test footage for Apple Vision Pro.

Sundar Pichai thinks that phones will still matter for at least a few years.

Developers can now try special offers to persuade subscribers to stay.

UK ready to impose competition interventions on Apple and Google.

Blender is building a full-featured iPad app, but it's not clear when it will be released.

Adobe rolls out new generative AI features for Photoshop to let users more easily add or remove people and objects.

Apple TV+ unveils first look at Vince Gilligan's new science fiction drama "Pluribus," starring Emmy Award nominee Rhea Seehorn.

iPhone 17 development device spotted in the wild.

Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's Superintelligence team.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Rocket

Leo's Pick: Perplexity MCP for Mac

Andy's Pick: Tom Lehrer's public domain songs

Alex's Pick: Magic John Screen Protector

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

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2 hr 20 min
July 27, 2025This Week in Tech 1042: Well Played Astronomer
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation

Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out

FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report

Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial

Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day

A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups

People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online

Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories

AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger

Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal

Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Molly White, Janko Roettgers, and Jacob Ward

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2 hr 21 min
July 23, 2025Intelligent Machines 829: The Yonkers Questions
Interview with Steven Johnson

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch

(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity

SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces

A new study just upended AI safety

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

Tesla results

Total Party Kill

Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen

Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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2 hr 57 min
July 23, 2025Windows Weekly 942: A World of Wonder
Microsoft finally kills Movies & TV show service in the Microsoft Store. This was the final vestigial minder of Zune that remained. There was Groove Video and Xbox Video, too. Microsoft previously killed eBook (2019) and music (2017) sales. At this point, you would have to be insane to buy content from Microsoft, sorry... but you can get to some of your content on other services via Movies Anywhere - and use the Movies & TV app for now in Windows, which is no longer bundled.
Windows 11
It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard

A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10

Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint

Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery

Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year

Describe image action for Click to Do (for AMD/Intel), image descriptions in Narrator (AMD/Intel), performance log improvements (!), Click to Do search bar test, Lock screen improvements, privacy improvements head to Dev and Beta channels

Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time

Brave will automatically block Recall

WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app

Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform

Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone
Surface/Copilot+ PC
Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features

It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life

All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers

Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside

Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming

Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"

Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw

DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search
Xbox and gaming
The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC

Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?

App pick of the week: Proton Lumo

RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam

Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 48 min
July 22, 2025Security Now 1035: Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Outage
Bypassing all passkey protections.

The ransomware attacks just keep on coming.

Cloudflare capitulates to the MPA and starts blocking.

The need for online age verification is exploding.

Microsoft really wants Exchange Servers to subscribe.

Russia (further) clamps down on Internet usage.

The global trend toward more Internet restrictions.

China can inspect locked Android phones. Use a burner.

Web shells are the new buffer overflow.

An age verification protocol sketch.

What Cloudflare did to create an outage of 1.1.1.1

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1035-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 49 min
July 22, 2025MacBreak Weekly 982: Everyday I'm Scrobblin'
When will iOS 26's public beta will be made available? Is Apple losing ground in the AI talent war? Apple's first foldable iPhone could arrive next year. And a unique color could be coming with the iPhone 17 Pro.
macOS Tahoe Public Beta Available for Some Users [Update: Pulled].

TSMC US chip production may soon only be three years behind Taiwan.

Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks.

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US.

Bigfoot, Orca, and a Trombone, are among new emoji coming to iOS 26.

Apple's Emoji Game is now out for News+ subscribers in the US and Canada.

Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War (It's Not Just Money).

The first foldable iPhone will arrive next year in Un-Apple-Like fashion.

One of the iPhone 17 Pro colors might literally be Liquid Glass.

'Ted Lasso' Season 4: Juno Temple & Brendan Hunt return; new cast includes Tanya Reynolds, Faye Marsay & Ted's son.

Apple warns Iranians of iPhone spyware attacks ahead of Israel conflict.

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history.
Picks of the Week:
Andy's Pick: MDR Dasher Keyboard

Alex's Pick: Flipboard

Jason's Pick: Longplay

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

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2 hr 17 min
July 20, 2025This Week in Tech 1041: A $4 Bill
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry

Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool

DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists

EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal

Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac

Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Iain Thomson, and Devindra Hardawar

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2 hr 42 min
July 17, 202520 Years at the Edge of Tech and Audio with Leo Laporte
Matt Levine chats with Leo Laporte, a podcasting legend and founder of TWiT.tv, an Internet podcast network focusing on technology. They discuss the early days of podcasting, how tech media has shifted, and what it takes to stay relevant when trends change overnight. Learn how to grow a podcast that lasts, why niche matters more than ever, and what most creators get wrong about discovery and audience loyalty.

Leo starts by explaining how he became tech radio’s go-to guy. He loved being on-air, but didn’t love the topics people expected from talk radio. So he carved out a space that let him dive into something he genuinely cared about—technology.

Why Leo started a podcast network in 2005—before most people even knew what a podcast was.

Leo explains what it was like being one of the first 10 podcasters in the world.

Leo on the most important aspect of podcasting: “You need to know your audience. The more general a show is, the more difficult it is to promote it.”

Leo explains just how easy it is to start a podcast today. All you need is a laptop and a mic. Unfortunately, this simplicity is both a blessing and a curse.

Leo says the barrier to entry has never been lower. But that also means the space is noisy, crowded, and competitive. Starting is easy; being found is the real challenge.

Leo highlights why discoverability—not content—is what kills most podcasts today. Even the best ideas can get buried if no one knows you exist.

Matt asks if discoverability can be fixed—and Leo says yes. However, it’s not about better SEO or thumbnails. It’s about being on platforms that are built to make things go viral like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.

Leo shares how they post twice daily on all platforms and why short clips are key to long-term growth. You can’t always track what’s working, but you can see when momentum starts to build.

Why the top 20 podcasts dominate half the ad revenue, and what that imbalance means for everyone else. If you’re not already at the top, you’re fighting over scraps. That’s why niche, loyalty, and consistency matter for the smaller podcasters.

Leo shares what COVID taught him about brand courage. The companies that kept showing up grew. Meanwhile, brands that pulled back lost their visibility and trust.

Understand how podcast advertising has shifted away from consumer brands to niche B2B partners.

Matt and Leo unpack why going niche is the smartest move a creator can make right now. Broad topics make it harder to build connection and loyalty. When you know exactly who you're talking to, they know exactly why they should listen. Specificity is your superpower.

Leo explains why remote work weakens small teams in ways people often underestimate.

Matt shares how remote teams can work—but it takes unnatural amounts of structure and intention. You can’t just hope the culture will carry itself. You have to manufacture connections on purpose. Otherwise, people drift—even when they’re online every day.

Leo shares why AI isn’t a threat to content creators, it’s a tool to be used with intention. He’s not worried about being replaced. He’s more focused on how to integrate AI in ways that save time and amplify creativity.

Leo’s take on AI in podcasting, especially when it comes to editing and marketing. There are tools now that can help you clip, caption, and distribute without a huge team. The trick is knowing what job you're trying to solve. Not every tool fits every creator.

Leo breaks down how the YouTube algorithm is shifting—and why short-form content is the next big opportunity. With TikTok facing pressure, YouTube is positioning Shorts as its successor. That means if you're a podcaster, creating short clips is a must.

Why Leo believes chasing trends is a waste of energy—and what to do instead. If you stay true to what excites you, the trends eventually circle back. People can feel when something’s authentic, and when that happens, attention follows.

Leo on the future of podcasting—it won’t be just audio anymore. Video, community, and personality are what people crave. For example, YouTube is where people are going right now. If you’re not on it, you’re missing where the next generation already is.

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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.