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June 18, 2025Intelligent Machines 824: Full-Body Air-Quotes
Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum

Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI

Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition

Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition

Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Inside the AI Party at the End of the World

AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games

L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Brooklyn TK

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum

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2 hr 12 min
June 18, 2025Windows Weekly 937: Vexed by Perturbations
No, it's not you. Windows Hello doesn't work in the dark anymore. For reasons. Say "Hello" to the Windows Hello controversy of the month!
Windows
AI agent in Settings and Recall export experience in Dev/Beta channels - plus the old clock is back, baby

July Patch Tuesday preview: App defaults (EEA only), Share images with visual preview, and some fixes for Windows 11 (The first one is coming to Windows 10 too - tied to the DMA news from last week.)

Commentary: What Apple gets right in macOS 26 (and otherwise)
Surface
One year with Surface Laptop 7

Microsoft issues its first firmware updates for Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 in several months, sort of
Microsoft 365
BBB complains about how Microsoft promotes Microsoft 365; Microsoft disagrees but will change the way it communicates about these features
AI
OpenAI, Microsoft, and... the nuclear option??

The Open AI Files provides an insider view of the company and finds it lacking

Copilot Vision is GA in the United States - It's also free to try on mobile

The Browser Company starts explaining Dia, finally
Xbox and Games
Microsoft announces (extends?) partnership with AMD on future Xbox hardware - a one minute video with plenty to parse

Next-gen hardware

Multi-year partnership with AMD on Xbox consoles and gaming handhelds

Compatibility with existing game libraries

Working closely with the Windows team, ensure Windows is the number one games platform

Microsoft shares Xbox Ally details with devs, a hint at the coming Windows-based Xbox platform requirements?

More Game Pass titles for June, including an old favorite

Minecraft gets three great updates

Steam will run natively on Apple Silicon soon. Unlike all the games.
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Don't give in

App pick of the week: Camtasia online

RunAs Radio this week: SQL Server 2025 with Bob Ward

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Macallan 18 Sherry Oak Cask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 44 min
June 17, 2025Security Now 1030: Internet Foreground Radiation
An exploited iOS iMessage vulnerability Apple denies?

The NPM repository is under siege with no end in sight.

Were Comcast and Digital Realty compromised? Don't ask them.

Matthew Green agrees: XChat does not offer true security.

We may know how Russia is convicting Telegram users.

Microsoft finally decides to block two insane Outlook file types.

40,000 openly available video camera are online. Who owns them?

Running SpinRite on encrypted drives.

An LLM describes Steve's (my) evolution on Microsoft security.

What do we know about the bots that are scanning the Internet?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1030-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 49 min
June 17, 2025MacBreak Weekly 977: A Slab of Ham on a Box
This week's episode dives deep into the post-WWDC hangover, exploring Apple's remarkable software improvements across platforms. The hosts examine the first third-party immersive video production using Blackmagic's new camera, celebrate major Vision Pro persona upgrades, and discuss Apple's complete re-architecture of iPad windowing. The conversation reveals how Apple's software teams seem to have hit their stride after years of criticism, delivering substantial improvements from terminal apps to AI integration.
Canal+ MotoGP Documentary for Vision Pro - First third-party Apple immersive video production shot entirely with new Blackmagic URSA camera, featuring French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco

Spatial Personas Get Major Upgrade - visionOS 26 delivers dramatically improved personas that actually look like real people, though beards still cause mouth-tracking issues

Geographic Persistence and Room Mapping - visionOS 26 features allow virtual objects to stay in place across reboots and sessions

Apple Home Hub Smart Display Discovery - Code found in iOS 26 dev beta reveals upcoming HomePod with screen, expected by the end of year

iPad Multitasking Revolution - Craig Federighi explains the complete re-architecture of iPadOS 26 windowing system, bringing full Mac-style window management to iPad

Background Task Processing - iPadOS 26 introduces finite background tasks for exports and file operations, finally allowing users to switch apps during long processes

Software Quality Renaissance - Discussion of Apple's apparent software turnaround, from improved backend infrastructure (40% improvement moving from Java to Swift/Rust) to new developer APIs

New Speech-to-Text APIs - Apple provides developers access to on-device transcription that's twice as fast as Whisper, though slightly less accurate

Third-Party App Integration Improvements - Apple now allows music apps to show animated artwork on lock screen and provides access to various ML models

Terminal and Spotlight Updates - macOS 26 features the first meaningful Terminal app update in years, plus pro features added to Spotlight, including clipboard history

F1 Movie Marketing Blitz - Deep dive into Apple's $200+ million investment in the F1 film, including custom iPhone cameras built for race cars and haptic trailer experiences
Picks of the Week:
Leo's Pick: Classic Sega iOS games going free before delisting on the App Store, including Crazy Taxi, Sonic titles, and Super Monkey Ball

Jason's Pick: PlugShare app for electric vehicle owners to find compatible charging stations across all networks and plug types

Andy's Pick: Usagi Yojimbo comic collection Humble Bundle featuring Stan Sakai's acclaimed samurai rabbit series, with proceeds supporting the Hero Initiative

Alex's Pick: Perla iOS camera app designed to give iPhone footage an authentic 16mm film look and feel

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

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2 hr 20 min
June 15, 2025This Week in Tech 1036: Apple Reflux
Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language

Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow

Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era

Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade

Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete

Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel

Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization

IBM aims to build the world's first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch

Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe

Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent

YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro

Army reserve tech executives meta palantir

Nintendo Switch 2 Is Fastest-Selling Game Console of All Time - Slashdot

An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories

Anker recalls 1.1 million power banks due to fire hazard risk

Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns

Bald eagle live cam update: Babies are leaving nest. What's next?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Harry McCracken, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 31 min
June 11, 2025Intelligent Machines 823: Intelligent with Two G's
Interview with Stephen Witt

Altman's Gentle Singularity

Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40

Paris on Apple Glass

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement

Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Futurism on the paper

Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss

YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages'

Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office

23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher

Code to control vocal production with hands

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year

Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Witt

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3 hr 12 min
June 11, 2025Windows Weekly 936: Liquid Aero
Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. Plus, the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to no longer host its Build conference in Seattle. Don't miss the discussion on the evolving role of the iPad as a potential threat to Surface devices due to recent software enhancements!
Windows 11
June Patch Tuesday is here! Big changes for Windows 11 versions 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2

New Start menu finally debuts in Dev and Beta - synchronized again for some reason

Copilot+ PCs get Relight feature and natural language search in the Photos app

The Microsoft Store gets a major update in the Beta channel

And Canary is still a thing, no one knows why
Developer conference season draws to a close
Build: Protests, problems, and more problems

Microsoft pulls out of Seattle permanently

Google I/O: Stunning array of AI announcements. But Android 16 is on a weird slow boil after a truncated development cycle

Apple WWDC: Apple Intelligence? Look, Liquid Glass! Also, some actual advances across its newly unified platforms

Look out Surface: The iPad is a real computer now - And it only took 15 years

Microsoft, Google, and Apple all played to their strengths

Between Windows 11 2xH2, Android 16, and iOS whatever - do the platform makers even know how to ship software anymore?
Xbox
Microsoft unveils the first Xbox-branded third-party gaming handheld as part of its Xbox Games Showcase 2025 event - a few interesting things there as well - COD: BO7, Gears remake, Gears v.next delayed to 2026

This heavily modified/optimized version of Windows 11 is coming to more gaming handhelds

Looking to the future: What if this is literally the model for future Xbox console hardware? What if the next Xbox was a NUC?

More Game Pass titles across platforms for the second half of June

You can add 4 TB of storage to your Xbox, but it will cost you dearly

Apple loses again in Epic v. Apple, Fortnite can stay in the App Store and developers can stop getting robbed by Apple

The Nintendo Switch 2 launched this past week and is apparently the best-selling console of all time at launch

PS5 controllers to support multiple Bluetooth connections
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Share Feature, image crunching

App pick of the week: Dia Browser

RunAs Radio this week: The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenlossie 26

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 27 min
June 10, 2025Security Now 1029: The Illusion of Thinking
In memoriam: Bill Atkinson

Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.

The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.

Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?

The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.

Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(

A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.

Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps.

Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites.

Reddit sues Anthropic.

Twitter's new encrypted DM's are as lame as the old ones.

The Login.gov site may not have any backups.

Apple explores the question of recent Large Reasoning Models "thinking"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1029-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 46 min
June 10, 2025MacBreak Weekly 976: Thanks For All the Round Rects
Apple unveiled many things at WWDC25 this year, including the newest versions of iPadOS and visionOS, with a new unified naming convention across its OS's. Apple Intelligence gets a slew of new capabilities across Apple devices. And the panel remembers Bill Atkinson.
iPadOS 26 introduces powerful new features that push the capabilities and versatility of iPad even further.

visionOS 26 introduces powerful new spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro.

Apple Intelligence gets even more powerful with new capabilities across Apple devices.

macOS Tahoe 26 makes the Mac more capable, productive, and intelligent than ever.

The iPad just got a lot more like a Mac thanks to these 20+ new features.

Bill Atkinson, hypercard creator and original Mac team member, dies at age 74.
Picks of the Week:
Mikah's Pick: Hidden Folks+

Andy's Pick: Astro Pinball by Kyle Sylvestre

Alex's Pick: Small Rig's Wireless Video Monitor for iPhone

Leo's Pick: Mitxela Clock

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 1 min
June 08, 2025This Week in Tech 1035: The Droids Are in the Escape Pod
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74

Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails

Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues

TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots - Slashdot

Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly

Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules

Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design - Slashdot

Ending USB-C® Port Confusion

Walmart to Expand Wing Drone Deliveries to 100 Stores

Nintendo Switch 2 Has Record-Breaking Launch, Selling Over 3 Million Units - Slashdot

Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You're Not Copyrightable After All

California county accused of using drones to spy on residents

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Cathy Gellis, and Larry Magid

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2 hr 30 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.