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March 30, 2025This Week in Tech 1025: Weak Perfection
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T
Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare

Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All

Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down

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

As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next

Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design

China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?

Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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2 hr 40 min
March 26, 2025Windows Weekly 925: It's the Shirt
What's next? Windows 12? Windows 11 25H2? You're not going to believe what happens next! A look back at everything Microsoft tested in just the Dev channel and then did or did not release to stable, and when. The list of unreleased features is unexpectedly long - most of this must be the next Windows version. Plus, If you have a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription, there are more benefits now and they're easier to find.
Windows 11 in 2025
Dev channel moves to a new build sequence

Microsoft issues Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 23H2 (But not 24H2)

Release Preview (24H2) - AI-powered Windows Search experience is barreling towards stable

Beta (23H2) and now Canary - Mostly just fixes

New AI features in Notepad, Paint, and Snipping tool head to all Insiders

Photos app update to all Insiders, adds Copilot integration, more
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets two reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst

AI - Agents - Reasoning AI --- Reasoning Agents? You got your reasoning in my agent!

Microsoft to launch Security Copilots in April

Microsoft releases first two Microsoft 365 companion apps for Windows 11, threatens to make more

Here comes Copilot in OneDrive, to consumer Microsoft 365 account holders

Anonymous document sharing for Word, Excel, PowerPoint comes to iPhone/iPad (is on web already)

OneNote for Windows 10 RIP in October after years of malaise
AI
Browsers to change in the agentic AI era - are they still browsers? Will we still browse?

"In Russia, the browser browses for you!"

Sam Altman pulls a Bill Gates in executive shift

ChatGPT gets image generation with GPT-4o

Google brings AI search to Gmail - Hopefully, it's better than AI search in Photos

Google releases first Gemini 2.5 model, all will be reasoning (thinking) models going forward

Amazon is testing AI-powered Interests feature in the U.S.

After it's success with conversational Siri, Apple to bring AI to Apple Watch, AirPods

Speaking of which, Apple sued for advertising Apple Intelligence - maybe it's time for a level set here

Exec reshuffle to fix Siri woes - maybe it's time to Ol' Yeller this

WWDC is on for June 9 - [waves hands] Look, it's iOS 19!

Opera upgrades three of its web browsers (really, four) with new Aria AI features
Xbox
Microsoft wants to make Xbox app in Windows the central hub for all stores

Microsoft testing new Game Hub on Xbox

Microsoft to release Vibrant Visuals upgrade for Minecraft this year

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 on April 17

New Assassin's Creed game (Shadows) gets off to a great start, with 2 million players in first 2 days, better than Origins and Odyssey. Most played game on Steam over the weekend, second-highest day-one sales revenue in the franchise's history (behind Valhalla), best ever day-one launch on the PlayStation Store. 27 percent of players are on PC
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Take advantages of Game Pass in-game benefits

App pick of the week: Google Drive for Windows

RunAs Radio this week: Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kempisch Vuur

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2 hr 4 min
March 26, 2025Intelligent Machines 812: A Choir of Sentient Cabbages
Interview with Gary Rivlin

A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models

"KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden"

Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an 'AI Labyrinth'

From the ChatGPT community on Reddit

Google is rolling out Gemini's real-time AI video features

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case

Why Apple, Meta and Google Are Buying Remote-Controlled Robot Arms

OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator for ChatGPT

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap takes on expanded role as CEO Sam Altman shifts focus to research

Gemini can now answer your Google Maps questions

Announcing the (Reed) Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

Section 230 May Finally Get Changed as Lawmakers Prep New Bill

Threads hanging by a thread

Dave Troy: The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure

Using Ray-Ban Meta glasses' Live AI and Live Translation to learn and understand foreign languages

A Ray-Ban Meta battery add-on for people who miss looking like a complete Glasshole

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Gary Rivlin

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2 hr 59 min
March 25, 2025Security Now 1018: The Quantum Threat
The dangers of doing things you don't understand.

Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.

A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.

A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.

A 10/10 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.

Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!

RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).

How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? ...and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?

Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.

Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don't let them take your genetics with them!

The White House says "the cyber guys should stay!"

AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?

Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 53 min
March 25, 2025MacBreak Weekly 965: A Lot of Goodwill to Squander
Apple is reportedly losing $1 billion a year on Apple TV+. WWDC 2025 has officially been announced. New features are coming to macOS 15.4 soon. Leo gets excited about a quiet update to the HomePod mini... the boxes that the devices come in that is. And would you buy an Apple-branded USB-C to 3.5mm cable for your AirPods Max?
Apple is apparently losing $1 billion a year on its TV+ streaming service.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 9.

Tim, don't kill my vibe.

Apple Music Classical gets three new features to aid discovery & learning.

Construction begins on delayed Apple TV+ studios.

macOS 15.4: Four new features are coming to your Mac soon.

Apple has quietly updated the HomePod mini with a new box.

All iPhone 18 models rumored to get speed boost from 2nm chips.

PSA: This is one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks ever made against Mac users.

Netflix will stream shows and movies in HDR10+ on supported devices.

Apple's rumored plastic Apple Watch SE has reportedly hit a serious snag.

Apple now sells USB-C to 3.5 mm cable for wired AirPods Max playback.

Porch pirate criminal network stole thousands of iPhones in the U.S.

EU orders Apple to open up access to iOS notifications, allow alternatives to AirDrop and AirPlay on the iPhone.

Season 3 of "Severance" is a go, via Tim Cook's cute Twitter convo with Ben Stiller.

Jason Bourne franchise shopped as rights leave Universal.

Professional DJs can now use Apple Music tracks directly.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Insta360 Link 1

Andy's Pick: Adafruit Fruit Jam and Pico-Mac emulator (in development)

Alex's Pick: Playlisty

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

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2 hr 19 min
March 23, 2025This Week in Tech 1024: Payday Loan Burrito
Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st

Apple Can't Beat Spotify

Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April

Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France

Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company

Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink

Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database

Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy

Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%

Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really

Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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2 hr 50 min
March 19, 2025Intelligent Machines 811: Flippin' the Bird
Interview with Anthony Aguirre

The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models

Jensen Huang GTC Keynote in 16 minutes

Nvidia and Yum! Brands team up to expand AI ordering

Google Is Officially Replacing Assistant With Gemini - Slashdot

Google's Gemini AI is really good at watermark removal

Hollywood warns about AI industry's push to change copyright law

Hear what Horizon Zero Dawn actor Ashly Burch thinks about AI taking her job

Guardian agrees with Leo

The Daily Wire announces new advertising partnership with Perplexity and The Ben Shapiro Show

Elon Musk's Grok to merge with Perplexity AI?

Perplexity dunks on Google's 'glue on pizza' AI fail in new ad

Google announces new health-care AI updates for Search

Google plans to release new 'open' AI models for drug discovery

EFF: California's A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

Italian newspaper says it has published world's first AI-generated edition

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

Kevin Roose joins the AGI cult: Why I'm Feeling the A.G.I.

I Hitched a Ride in San Francisco's Newest Robotaxi

Elon Musk's X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround

The 560-pound Twitter logo from its San Francisco headquarters is up for auction

Andreessen wants to shut down all higher education in America

FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today - Slashdot

Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains

Google acquires cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion

Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara

Oh Mary!

TechCrunch Founder-Turned-Crypto Investor Pays $60 Million for Miami Beach Home

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anthony Aguirre

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2 hr 59 min
March 19, 2025Windows Weekly 924: No One Wants To Be Plumbing
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive.
Windows
March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11

New Canary build today

Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D

Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D

Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix

Paint is getting new Cocreator features

New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all
Microsoft
Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important

FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe

Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe
AI/Dev
Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features

Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook)

Zoom AI Companion is going agentic

Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models

Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2
Xbox
Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox

Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99

Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March

Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA

Discord has an SDK now

Google Play Games for PC is adding native games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store

App pick of the week: Files

RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff

Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 20 min
March 18, 2025Security Now 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer?
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto.

A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design.

Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble?

An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised?

AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day.

The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action.

Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy.

In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution.

Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say?

A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have.

A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and...

A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 54 min
March 18, 2025MacBreak Weekly 964: I'm Just Disappointed
Someone is upset over Apple's announcement of an updated Siri will be delayed. Some information about the rumored iPhone 17 Air is starting to come out. Would you watch a performance of Metallica in the Vision Pro? And Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users.
Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino.

Apple executives believe users will 'love' upcoming iOS 19 overhaul.

Apple considered making the rumored iPhone 17 Air 'completely port-free,' according to report.

The Vision Pro Metallica concert video is the best Apple Immersive video yet.

Apple drops lawsuit against recycler in mystery of missing iPhones.

Sonos cancels its streaming video player.

Secret court hearing on iCloud encryption underway amid demands to make it public.

Apple announces major expansion of Tap to Pay on iPhone.

Rumor: Apple developing second-generation Studio Display.

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users.

Pedro Pascal is a heartsick mess until Apple's AirPods help him dance into a brighter world in new ad.

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones.

Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Aqara G5 Pro Camera

Andy's Pick: Google Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental Native Image Editing

Alex's Pick: Aluminum Chassis Stand for 2024 Mac Mini M4/M4 Pro

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2 hr 19 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.