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April 13, 2025This Week in Tech 1027: 20 Years in the Can
Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions

Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'

5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial

Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters

Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief

Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos

Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from

June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns

The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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3 hr 18 min
April 09, 2025Intelligent Machines 814: Chesterton's Fence
Interview with Cory Doctorow

AI hasn't killed radiology, but it is changing it

Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks

Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn't Amused

Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can't Do the Job

The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now

The 35th anniversary of Twin Peaks

Eddy Varekamp

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cory Doctorow

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2 hr 17 min
April 09, 2025Windows Weekly 927: Up to Stuff
Introducing the Windows 11 Feature Tracker
"From the 'I should have done this two years ago' files, the 'I have wasted my life' files, and the, 'great, I needed more work to do' files ... There is a need for this. So I made one. But it will evolve. Maybe into a web app/wiki/something else... like a Notion website?" - Paul
Patch Tuesday brings a metric ton of new features - And what the tracker showed clearly

Two seconds after posting the tracker, Microsoft changed the Copilot app yet again - proving the need for the tracker - And demonstrating why the Insider Program is so screwed up

A hidden new Start menu in recent builds presents an interesting conundrum: How to handle something Microsoft has not announced?
More Windows 11
Beta build for 23H2: File new tab/new window changes, Explorer context menu regression may be permanent

Dev and Beta (24H2): Taskbar icon scaling is a blast from the past we all need desperately

Intel is killing Unison app and service
Like winter, Build is coming
Build session catalog is live - mostly AI as expected. Paul and Richard are going

Overview of the Windows Copilot Runtime (one year after it was announced), Windows Actions, standard Kayla Cinnamon talk on Windows productivity, using your own model with WCR, native app experiences(!), Arm64 app perf, etc.
AI
Final thoughts on Microsoft's 50th: Biggest accomplishment wasn't any tech, it was changing with the times.

What it's best at: Democratizing tech for the commoners, an expansion on Jack Tramiel/Commodore's "computers for the masses, not the classes" schtick. And that is exactly what it is doing with AI right now

Microsoft hosts a consumer AI event and announces a metric ton of new Copilot features

We need a Copilot feature tracker. Copilot = every single feature other AIs have - Copilot Actions on the web, memory and personalization, Copilot Vision on mobile and Windows, AI-generated podcasts and Microsoft releases Copilot Search in Bing

Is AI turning us all into Charly from Flowers for Algernon?

AI is making us stupider! There are studies!!

This is the argument against every single tech advance from the steam train to the ballpoint pen to this

Microsoft's AI demo of vibe-coded Quake II highlights the problem nicely

Sometimes it's the little things: AI recaps for book series in Kindle

GitHub Copilot updated with Agent Mode, Cursor-style code overviews, more
Xbox & gaming
Microsoft announces new Xbox Games Showcase for June

Edge Game Assist gets new features, support for new games

GTA V and enhanced version for PC coming to Game Pass on April 15 - In addition to the previous Game Pass titles we discussed last week

Good: Nintendo Switch 2 supports ray tracing and DLSS

Bad: Nintendo delays Switch 2 to figure out the tariffs mess
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Programmers at Work

App pick of the week: Apple Music

RunAs Radio this week: Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Heart Cut #02

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/927

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
2 hr 18 min
April 08, 2025Security Now 1020: Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration
Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.

Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.

France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.

Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?

Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?

Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?

AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects.

No Microsoft Account? No Microsoft Windows 11.

Gmail claims it now offers E2EE. It kinda sorta does. Somewhat.

A dreaded CVSS 10.0 was discovered in Apache Parquet.

A bunch of terrific listener feedback.

What's Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and why must all certificate authorities now do it?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1020-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 9 min
April 08, 2025MacBreak Weekly 967: Breathy, But Not In a Ditch
Sales of Apple devices spike heavily as tariffs and potential price hikes drive customers to a shopping frenzy for Apple goods. Apple, alongside Google, is given permission to keep TikTok in its App Store until the US deal is finalized. Could the iPhone's auto-suggested contact be to blame for the Signal scandal? And even though Severance is a big hit, it isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a boost in subscribers.
Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs.

How Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days to beat Trump tariffs.

Apple customers dash to stores to buy iPhones ahead of tariffs.

Tarriff-related iPhone price increases estimated to be lower than feared.

From Kuo: Apple can reduce impact of Trump's massive tariffs in five ways.

Secret court rules against Yvette Cooper over Apple encryption.

White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal.

EU to issue Apple's Digital Markets Act antitrust ruling within weeks.

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

Apple launches new Mac and Vision Pro app for managing Immersive content.

Apple's canceled Federation Square store lives on in Apple Vision Pro.

New "Immersive VIP Yankee Stadium" immersive video.

Apple TV+ brings Lumon Industries to life.

Even Severance isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a big boost in subscribers.

Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence.

CalDigit's new Thunderbolt 5 docks bring plenty of ports.
Picks of the Week:
Leo's Pick: icloudpd 1.27.2

Jason's Picks: Insta360 2-in-1 Invisible Selfie Stick + Tripod & Neewer Mini Desk tripod.

Andy's Pick: Kindle Comic Converter

Mikah's Pick: puffies.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 9 min
April 06, 2025This Week in Tech 1026: I Know of BigBalls
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead

Trump delays TikTok ban again

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.

China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot

Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots

Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider

Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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3 hr 14 min
April 02, 2025Intelligent Machines 813: The Optimist
Interview with Keach Hagey

The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI

OpenAI's Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch

Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name 'Grok'

Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year

AI: history of a brand by Thomas Haigh

Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries

First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression

Tinder wants you to chat with an AI bot before you fail with a real person

Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.

(Oh, no) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners

Trump to hold a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok with possible ban at stake

Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser

Get ready! Catch Coachella 2025 live, only on YouTube

Amazon Nova

Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes

AI accent conversion

Kat Abughazaleh, from YouTube to Congress?

Wurst cursor

The fastest, most-accurate fast-food drive-throughs, and more!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Richard Campbell

Guest: Keach Hagey

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2 hr 56 min
April 02, 2025Windows Weekly 926: You're Ugly When You Cry
Bill Gates celebrates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with the release of the source code for Altair BASIC 1.0. Plus, Paul celebrates with 99 cent books: The Windows 10 Field Guide, Windows 11 Field Guide, and Windows Everywhere are all 99 cents for 24 hours! Also available: Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City in preview!
Windows
The plot thickens. Paul writes epic take on future of Windows 11, describes Dev channel-only features and when/if they were ever released - in other words, an extensive but partial Windows 11 feature roadmap for 2025

Two days later, Microsoft announces a Windows 11 feature road map - one that is woefully incomplete, pathetic, and sad

Microsoft announces when (sort of) new on-device AI features will come to all Copilot+ PCs, meaning Intel and AMD, too - "not a glimpse at the future of the PC, but the future of the PC."

Live captions with live language translations, Cocreator in Paint, Restyle image and Image creator in Photos, plus Voice access with flexible natural language (Snapdragon X only)

But not Recall or Click to Do in preview, go figure

As expected, March 2024 Preview update for 24H2 arrives, a few days late - with AI-powered search experience enabled

Dev and Beta builds - Friday - Quick Machine Recovery (Beta only?), Speech recap in Narrator, Blue screen to get less blue, WinKey + C shortcut for Copilot returns, Spanish and French Text actions in Click to Do, Edit images in Share, AI-powered search (Dev only?)

Then, Microsoft more fully describes Windows Quick Recovery

Beta (23H2) - Monday - A lot of familiar 24H2 features - Narrator improvements, Copilot WinKey + C, Share with Image edit, plus System -- About FAQ for some freaking reason

Proton Drive is now native on Windows 11 on Arm, everyone gets new features

Proton VPN is now built into Vivaldi desktop browser

Intel's new CEO appears in public, vows to spin off non-core businesses. Everything but x86 chip design and Foundry, then
Microsoft 365
Windows 365 Link is now available

The Office apps on Windows already launch instantaneously but apparently that's not invasive enough - we need fewer auto-start items, not more of them

Microsoft Excel to call out rich data cells with value tokens
AI & Dev
NYT copyright infringement lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft can move forward, judge rules

And now Tim O'Reilly says Open AI stole his company's paywalled book content too. Book piracy is sadly the easiest thing in the world

Open AI raised more money than any private firm in history, now worth $300B

ChatGPT releases awesome new image generation feature for ChatGPT

And now it's available for free to everyone

Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 is now available to everyone too

Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access, US only

Some thoughts about vibe coding, which isn't what you think it is

AMD pays $4.9 billion to take on Nvidia in cloud AI

Apple Intelligence + Apple Health is the future of something something
Xbox & Games
Nintendo announces Switch 2. Looks awesome, coming earlier than expected. But that price! And no Xbox/COD news at the launch??

Luna's not dead! Amazon announces multi-year EA partnership, expands Luna to more EU countries

Microsoft announces a new Xbox Backbone controller for smartphones

New titles for Xbox Game Pass across PC,

Ti

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/926

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 24 min
April 01, 2025Security Now 1019: EU OS
Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.

A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.

Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.

Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?

Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.

A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?

23andMe down for the count (reminder).

A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!

"InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.

And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 6 min
April 01, 2025MacBreak Weekly 966: Chunks of Corn
iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4 are out. Is Apple going to make a huge push into health with AI? France fines Apple over App Tracking transparency. And could the NFL exit its current media rights deals in 2029? What could this mean for the league?
iPadOS 18.4 released with Apple Intelligence & Mail tweaks.

The best HomeKit robot vacuums for iOS 18.4.

Computing would be totally different had Apple not been formed 49 years ago, today.

Apple readies its biggest push into health yet with new AI doctor.

This alert must die.

France fines Apple over App Tracking Transparency, but doesn't order changes.

Utah governor signs online child safety law requiring Apple, Google to verify user ages.

2026 Porsches still won't have next-gen CarPlay.

NFL a 'virtual lock' to exit media rights deals in 2029, per report.

NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Calibre

Andy's Pick: USB power meter / tester

Alex's Pick: DPA 5100

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2 hr 26 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.