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- This Week in Tech 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts
- TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
- Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
- IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
- Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
- Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
- Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
- Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
- Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
- Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
- YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing
- Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
- Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
- Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
- Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
- Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed
- Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
- Meta's Brain-to-Text AI
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough
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2 hr 45 min - Security Now 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks
- New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores.
- The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data.
- France moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption.
- Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features.
- The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance.
- Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities.
- Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection.
- Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies.
- "AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model.
- Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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2 hr 42 min - MacBreak Weekly 959: A Bricolage of Features
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring.
- About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1.
- U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts.
- Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware.
- Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release.
- Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more.
- Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out.
- Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more.
- Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner.
- Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple?
- Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all.
- One year with the Vision Pro.
- Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame.
Picks of the Week:
- Alex's Pick: Magic Room
- Andy's Pick: Forklift 4
- Jason's Pick: TRMNL
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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2 hr 19 min - This Week in Tech 1018: Self-Driving Government
- UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data
- Google rolls back DEI efforts, including hiring goals
- Brits Want to Ban 'Smarter Than Human' AI
- Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl 'Trades' Pit State Regulators Against Feds
- Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad
- "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed
- Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling
- Google starts testing new Search 'AI Mode' internally – Here's an early look at it
- In Upholding The TikTok Ban, SCOTUS Compromises, And With It The First Amendment
- TikTok advises Android users in the US to sideload the app
- In Other SCOTUS First Amendment News, It Also Just Heard Oral Argument Over Yet Another Texas Law Censoring The Internet
- Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
- CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears
- Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff 'AI-First' Is the Future of Key Government Agency
- German civil activists win victory in election case against Musk's X
- Trump Ends Legal Challenge Over Twitter Ban After Jan. 6 Riot
- Crypto-stealing apps found in Apple App Store for the first time
- Apple's Long-Awaited Overhaul of iPhone SE Nears Release
- Former iOS engineer sued by Apple issues apology as lawsuit is dismissed
- PS5 sales more than twice Xbox Series X/S reveals Take-Two by accident
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Daniel Rubino, Cathy Gellis, and Lisa Schmeiser
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2 hr 50 min - Intelligent Machines 805: Doomers, Gloomers, Bloomers, and Zoomers
- Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI
- Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype
- Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
- OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions
- AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned.
- Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
- Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep research tool
- Anthropic makes "jailbreak" advance to stop AI models producing harmful results
- WSJ: The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America's AI Work Be Too?
- EU AI Act: Ban on certain AI practices and requirements for AI literacy come into effect
- Cathy Gellis: When It's Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
- a16z slides on AI and voice
- Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra
- Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a "legendary misadventure" if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
- The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America's Worst Criminals
- Hilarious analyst on Tesla
- How the DJI Flip uses AI
- Marketers will have to market to AI agents
- AI systems could be "caused to suffer" if consciousness achieved, says research
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Zack Kass
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2 hr 46 min - Windows Weekly 918: Casa Chaos
Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $24.1 billion on revenues of $69.6 billion in the quarter ending December 31, the second quarter of its fiscal 2025. Those figures represent gains of 10 percent and 12 percent year-over-year (YOY), respectively.
Microsoft Earnings Overview
- Not much going on with client-side products and services, so a focus on AI
- Productivity and Business Processes: $29.4 billion in revenues, up 14 percent YOY. This was 42.2 percent of Microsoft's earnings
- Intelligent Cloud: $25.5 billion in revenues, up 19 percent YOY. This was 36.6 percent of Microsoft's earnings
- More Personal Computing: $14.7 billion, unchanged from the year-ago quarter. (Literally flat YOY.) This was 21.1 percent of Microsoft's earnings
Windows
- Microsoft testing AI-powered search in Windows 11 Dev
- New Canary build- Windows Midi Services preview, OneDrive resume, File Explorer folder resume
- Microsoft is experimenting with new Windows 11 UIs
- Microsoft Edge text rendering comes to all Chromium web browsers on Windows - That only took a few years
- Microsoft explains deprecation after using the term for decades
AI
- Week 2 of submitting to our new Chinese overlords
- Gemini catapults into the lead for a few days as Gemini 2.0 becomes broadly available
- Inspired by DeepSeek, OpenAI releases reasoning model to free ChatGPT
- This comes after Microsoft added it to Copilot
- Reasoning vs. traditional models
- Also, DeepSeek R1 is on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
- Sam Altman discusses DeepSeek, more
- OpenAI offers up an AI research assistant
More Earnings (Lightning Round)
- Intel - $14.3 billion in revenues, down 7 percent
- AMD: Revenues up 24 percent, market share gains on Intel
- Apple - Record $124.2 billion in revenues, up 4 percent
- Alphabet/Google: Revenues at $96.47 billion, up 12 percent - CapEx expenditures closing in on MSFT
- Samsung - Revenues up 12 percent to $52.2 billion
- Spotify is profitable for full year for the first time
Microsoft 365
- Designer makes its way to Photos (Windows) and Microsoft 365 Copilot app (mobile)
- Microsoft is removing the VPN from Microsoft 365 Family and Personal
- Outlook for Mac to get email recall feature
Xbox
- Starfield is coming to Game Pass Standard this month, more Game Pass titles
- Forza Horizon 5 is coming to PS5
- Two Age of Empires titles are coming to PS5
- Remember that Microsoft partnership with Start.gg? Me neither
- Nintendo revenues, Switch sales fall more than expected, will no longer beat DS this fiscal year
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: It's time for an online account audit
- App pick of the week: Another week of big browser update
- RunAs Radio this week: Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans
- Margarita of the week: 2 oz white tequila, 1.5 oz Triple Sec, 1 oz fresh lime juice.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott
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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
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2 hr 47 min - Security Now 1011: Jailbreaking AI
- Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities?
- What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online?
- What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean?
- Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free?
- Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused.
- An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability.
- The new US "ROUTERS" Act.
- Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship?
- Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000.
- Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge.
- Bitwarden improves account security.
- What's still my favorite disk imaging tool?
- And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1011-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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3 hr 2 min - MacBreak Weekly 958: You Can't Handle the Sharks!
Apple releases its first-quarter results. Apple has reportedly canceled work on Mac-connected augmented reality glasses. What is Hot Tub, an app that was approved in the EU through the approved alternative app store, AltStore PAL? And you can listen to Dr. Ricken's book, 'The You You Are', from Severance.
- Apple reports first quarter results.
- Apple's Invites invites you to send invitations.
- Apple in 2024: The Six Colors report card.
- Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones.
- Apple scraps work on Mac-connected augmented reality glasses.
- Mark Gurman on X: "A notable change coming to AppleCare+ next week..."
- Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU.
- 25 years of The Sims turning players into gods.
- Twitterrific team launches new 'Tapestry' iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more.
- Everyone knows your location.
- How Apple Vision Pro is finding a home in medicine.
- Dr. Ricken's Severance book, 'The You You Are,' now available in free excerpt.
- Stage adaptation of AppleTV+ show "Schmigadoon!" opens at Kennedy Center, with new songs.
Picks of the Week:
- Jason's Pick: Hazel 6
- Alex's Pick: Sennhesier Ambeo + Sound Devices MixPre
- Andy's Picks: New Pebble!
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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2 hr 29 min - This Week in Tech 1017: Yellow-Bellied Marmots
- Takeaways From a Monumental Week for AI
- Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source | TechCrunch
- DeepSeek's AI success is overshadowed by a serious security breac
- AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch
- OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, nuclear weapons security
- The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes
- OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model | TechCrunch
- Rabbit R1 and Pebble
- Apple's AI and AR Struggles Show It Has Lost Some of Its Product Edge
- Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
- Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott
- Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
- Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems
- Elon Musk seizes computer system, locks out senior government officials
- Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
- Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
- 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
- Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates
- Super Bowl Sundays are really noisy everywhere in the US
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Christina Warren, and Dan Patterson
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3 hr 17 min - This Week in Google 804: Big Potato
- Leo's AI Toys
- DeepSeek
- How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
- Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
- 17th Century Death Roulette ☠�
- Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
- 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
- The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
- Paris' new TV
- Scoldy Mastodon
- Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
- Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
- Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
- Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
- New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
- Technological puritanism
- All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
- By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
- The mayor of Merrymac
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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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.
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