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March 16, 2025This Week in Tech 1023: This is Not Tax Advice
The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags

Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.

Intel has a new CEO

Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci-Fi

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games

Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie

Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090

Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic

Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination

TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app

F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot

Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28

Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Glenn Fleishman, and Mikah Sargent

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3 hr 13 min
March 12, 2025Intelligent Machines 810: A Liter of Computronium
Interview with Ray Kurzweil

Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down

Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots

DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false

claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly

AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot

AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic

Robots That Don't Walk Are Making Strides

Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action

TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app

FCC chair asks if YouTube TV 'discriminates against faith-based programming'

OpenAI says it has trained an AI that's 'really good' at creative writing

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry

Times profile of Jessica Lessin

Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies

Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million

Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ray Kurzweil

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2 hr 48 min
March 12, 2025Windows Weekly 923: The Bouche is Amused
Your Patch Tuesday is showing. Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte go over the latest features for Windows 11 with the KB5053598 update. Also, the hosts discuss Press to Talk for Insiders, the Windows app replacing Remote Desktop, the agentic future of browsers, Copilot integration in GroupMe, Gemma 3, issues with Xbox Wireless Controller 5.23.5.0 firmware, Pocket Casts Web Player, and the "vibe coding" era. Plus, Fences 6 is now in Beta, on sale!
Woody Leonhard, RIP
Like Jerry Pournelle, a major influence on Paul's career and writing style

He had a mysterious life in latter years, not clear what happened
Windows 11
Windows 11 gets all the features we've discussed recently

Are we heading towards something bigger this year? Or just more of the same?

New Canary and Beta (23H2) builds

New Dev and Beta (24H2) builds

Copilot in Windows 11 is getting Press to Talk

Microsoft follows through on threat, kills Remote Desktop App - our latest outrage

Arc crashed and burned but we can still evolve web browsers

What about sidebar apps as a UX baby step forward?

Does Edge need to restart every three days now to install updates?
Microsoft 365
Google promotes ChromeOS/Chromebooks as the right client ... for Microsoft 365
Dev
Build 2025 registration is now open
AI
It's Microsoft's 50th anniversary, so it's going to announce AI something something

Paul has agreed to attend this, from Mexico

Also, report that Microsoft's in-house models now rival OpenAI is a hint

Microsoft improves Think Deeper in Copilot using OpenAI o3-mini

Google secretly owns 14-15 percent of Anthropic

WTF is going on with Big Tech and regulatory evasion?

On that note, CMA clears Microsoft + OpenAI specifically because of change to partnership

Also, Google launches Gemma 3

The Siripocalypse - AI is a hard computer science problem and Siri is the dumb blond in this space

Amazon will use AI to dub movies and TV series because obviously
Xbox
Rumor: Third-party portable Xbox gaming handheld this year, console resets in two years

You could have cobbled this together solely based on what Microsoft has said publicly

Xbox controller firmware, we have a problem
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Code with AI

App pick of the week: Fences

RunAs Radio this week: Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Ardbeg 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 37 min
March 11, 2025Security Now 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor
Utah passes age verification requirement for app stores.

The inside story on fake North Korean employees. Is that a Texas accent?

An update on the ongoing Bybit cryptoheist saga.

The industry may be making some changes in the wake of the Bybit attack.

Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.

Did someone crack Passkeys?

The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.

The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.

A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.

A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.

And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1016-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 57 min
March 11, 2025MacBreak Weekly 963: The Blue and the Gray
Is Apple's 'Sky Blue' really blue? Apple is delaying its 'more personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence features. Is anyone excited about RollerCoaster Tycoon coming to Apple Arcade? And Dropbox now supports Live Photos! ... after ten years.
Sky (blue)'s the limit: M4 MacBook Air offers lower price, improved camera, and new color.

New Mac Studio spans the generations with M4 Max, M3 Ultra chips.

Apple is delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence features.

Apple readies dramatic software overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

On Apple Exclaves.

Apple Arcade announces six new games coming, including RollerCoaster Tycoon.

Apple reportedly planning 'feature-packed' visionOS 3 update.

Dropbox now supports this innovative iPhone photos feature...10 years later.

SpaceX urges FCC to block Globalstar's cellular satellite plans.

Ben Stiller gives backstory on 'Severance' Grand Central stunt, jokes budget with Apple boss.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Mercury Weather

Andy's Pick: Red Worm Moon Lunar Eclipse

Alex's Pick: Voyage USB Ambisonic Mic

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

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2 hr 28 min
March 09, 2025This Week in Tech 1022: Chatting With MrBabyMan
'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say

The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake

Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time

Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI

The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025

AMD finally has a decent NVIDIA killer with the Radeon 9070 + 9070 XT

Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations

Crony Crypto Capitalism

Utah Passes First US App Store Age Verification Law

The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week

YouTube Premium and Music Surpass 125 Million Subscribers

America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome

Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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2 hr 44 min
March 05, 2025Intelligent Machines 809: Fun Mustache
Interview with Gary Marcus

Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion

Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel

Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products

27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? - Slashdot

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

What to know about deepfakes bill backed by Melania Trump

Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI

Google lets Americans delete their search results

'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash

Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid

YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content

Skype is shutting down after two decades

LATimes insights page

PDF example from the LATimes

Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."

The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects

Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet

18F demolished

AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K

Vintage Computer Festival East

Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv

Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Gary Marcus

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2 hr 55 min
March 05, 2025Windows Weekly 922: There's Never a "Not OK" Button
Skype to EOL in May, replaced by the consumer Teams client, which is surprisingly good now. There are three possible responses to this:
"They still make Skype?"

The 13 people who rely on Skype for calling landlines come out of the woodwork.

"Come on, Microsoft telegraphed this two years ago"

Plus, Opera previews what an AI agent in a browser can be used for. Firefox 136 now comes with vertical tabs (again), updated sidebar, AI chatbots, and more. And a Google-related tip that lets one see what it's like to live in the EU, minus the universal health care and other social safety nets.
Windows
Microsoft FINALLY updates the Copilot app in Windows 11 for the 127th time - What Microsoft didn't tell anyone. Arrives just after the release of a native Mac client

Three months of Recall, and it IS controversial, just not for the reasons you think

Dev and Beta (last week): lock screen widget customizing (finally), Windows Share updates (again), Task Manager CPU usage calculation change (seriously), more

It may be controversial at Linux, but not at Microsoft, which is all-in on Rust

Intel delays Ohio fabs until after the earth careens into the sun

Dell up 7 percent to $23.9 billion ($11.9 billion from PCs)

HP up 2.4 percent to $13.5 billion ($9.2 billion from PCs)

Intel brings Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" chips to commercial market
Microsoft 365
Microsoft finally puts Skype out of its misery

A look back at 22 years of Skype

Outlook Mobile gets delivery and read receipts
AI
USA! USA! USA! Microsoft makes AI export changes easy to understand for our stupid government

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its final non-reasoning model

Microsoft brings new local distilled DeepSeek models to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X - a little hands-on

Microsoft announces Dragon Copilot for clinical workflow

Stability AI + Arm Holdings = generative AI audio, more to come

Scam Detection in Messages for Pixel and Android

Gemini improvements including upcoming features

Apple's struggles with AI are real. Just ask Siri. Kidding, no one asks Siri anything
Xbox
New Game Pass titles for first half of March

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 coming to all platforms including Game Pass on July 11

Sony slashes prices on VR2 months after it stopped building it
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Remove yourself from Google Search results

App pick of the week: Mo' browsers!

RunAs Radio this week: Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette

Brown liquor pick of the week: Knappogue Castle 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 27 min
March 04, 2025Security Now 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming
Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.

Signal threatens to leave Sweden.

Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.

It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.

"The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.

Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).

What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?

What exactly are memory-safe languages?

Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.

Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.

A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.

An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 53 min
March 04, 2025MacBreak Weekly 962: The Brutalist Rainbow
Apple updates the iPad Air with the M3 chipset. iFixit does a teardown of the iPhone 16e. A new documentary film about Bono will be released later this year, with an immersive version of the film for Apple Vision Pro. And Apple has launched a legal challenge to UK's "back door" order.
Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor.

New M4 MacBook Air could debut on Wednesday.

Apple Park rainbow arches gone, but reportedly being rebuilt.

Apple's artificial intelligence efforts reach a make-or-break point.

iPhone 16e Teardown: Never before has skipping the upgrade made more sense.

Skype is shutting down after two decades.

Apple sets premiere of "Bono: Stories Of Surrender".

Apple just released two brand new apps in iOS 18.4 and visionOS 2.4 beta 2.

Introducing ADIB spatial banking on Apple Vision Pro.

Apple Park in 8K 3D 180 HDR.

Apple faces likely French antitrust fine for privacy tool, sources say.

US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty.

Apple launches legal challenge to UK "back door" order.
Picks of the Week:
Leo's Pick: Peak Design - Roller Pro Carry-On Luggage

Mikah's Pick: WiFiMan Wizard

Alex's Pick: Neat Video Noise Removal

Andy's Pick: Zen Browser

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 24 min

About Total Leo (Audio)

From the publisher's feed

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.