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July 22Windows Weekly 993: The Columnist Savant
As the tech world catches its breath from AI whiplash and retro gaming returns to the PC, Microsoft quietly kills underused tools and tries to double down on what actually works. This episode blends the excitement of tech and entertainment (like Xbox classics landing on Windows 11) with a poignant look back at the life and legacy of legendary columnist John C. Dvorak.
Windows
Five new Insider builds released on Monday; the new Start menu comes to the Beta channel

Experimental (26H1) a day later with no interesting new features

The Whiteboard app is apparently being retired
AI
Microsoft expands partnership with Mistral to improve EU AI infrastructure

Copilot for consumers is losing Podcasts and Deep research features soon

U.S. judge approves Anthropic $1.5 billion settlement with authors it stole from

1Password partners with Anthropic to make AI access to password-protected websites secure

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google's next big AI models are delayed, but we got Gemini 3.6 Flash, Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber to tide us over
XBOX and gaming
Microsoft brings XBOX Backward Compatibility to PC!!

Here comes Halo: Campaign Evolved, along with more Game Pass titles for the end of July

Bethesda announces Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, and Fallout 5 is entering pre-production

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 in Early Access on August 21, Open Beta on August 27

XBOX July update adds support for longer gamertags, new library customization options, and more

XBOX teams with Meta to bring Game Pass Starter Edition to Meta Horizon+ subscribers

Valve says the component crisis dogging Steam Machine pricing will only get worse
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Windows Package Manager for bulk app installs

App (game) of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages

RunAs Radio this week: Security Begins at Procurement with Jessie Schofer

Brown liquor pick of the week: Loup River Nebraska Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 20 min
July 22Intelligent Machines 880: The Beans are in the Mail
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible

AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

Quoting Sam Altman

Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball

Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic

Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order

Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic

Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'

Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped

Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

Cyclospora all the time

Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price

" Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"

John C. Dvorak dies at age 80

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nate B. Jones

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2 hr 39 min
July 21Security Now 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI
Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion and negotiations on the dark side.
The "bone crushing" didn't happen this month.

Revisiting and inspecting July's Patch Tuesday.

A widespread and worrisome flaw in OpenSSL.

Claude can now access your 1Password credentials.

Bitwarden is aware that we need whole new security.

The day ends in "y" so a new prompt injection attack.

A true (and rare) core Wordpress emergency update.

Lots of interesting listener feedback.

And new ways AI is being used by bad guys

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1088-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 48 min
July 21MacBreak Weekly 1034: The Other Side of the Corn
Apple is raising its subscription prices for both Apple Music & select Apple One bundles. The OpenAI & Apple legal battle is escalating. And are Siri's AI features finally coming to China?
Apple raises prices for Apple Music and Apple One subscriptions.

Is Apple One worth it for you after recent price hikes?

iCloud $32.8B CSAM lawsuit dismissed, Apple protected under Section 230 laws.

Apple in talks to settle DOJ antitrust lawsuit, per report.

Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email's privacy protections.

OpenAI and Apple legal battle escalates, poached employees warned about data deletion.

Apple Intelligence finally on the road to release in China.

PrismML releases Bonsai 27B, claiming first major AI model of its size fit for iPhone.

Apple's New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark.

Apple testing 'Live Notes' AI system to record Genius Bar sessions.

Apple's scrapped Mac Pro plans reportedly included a new Intel model.

visionOS 27 Beta: 90-Hertz-Freeze bei 24p-Quellen und neue Controller-Plattform.

A.I. 'Vibecoded' apps are flooding Apple's app store.

Investigation reveals dozens of disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil.

San Francisco demands Apple and Google delete AI 'nudify' apps from App Stores.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: Breville One-Touch Tea Maker

Christina's Pick: Nativ

Andy's Picks: David Bowie NASA Bolt Sticker & dbrand MacBook skin

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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2 hr 24 min
July 19This Week in Tech 1093: California Sober
What happens when China drops open-weight AI models that rival Silicon Valley's best? This episode unpacks how a new wave of international AI releases is shaking up business, policy, and the future of innovation.
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Claude on X: "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to"

China's Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America's Lead

Alibaba's Qwen Unveils Preview of Flagship AI Model

Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe

The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs

Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP

Meta Is Flooding the Market With Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms.

Federal employees can download TikTok on government devices, DOJ says

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch

MLB cracks down on using AI via dugout iPads to help shape in-game decisions

White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says

New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Alex Wilhelm

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2 hr 58 min
July 15Intelligent Machines 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/

Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets

Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US

Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days

White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

Introducing GPT-Live

From Chatbot to Command Center

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X

What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone

Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content

White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models

The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ

Super Dario: One More Week

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev

History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)

No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora

Google creator profiles

Dust jacket

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raffi Krikorian

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2 hr 25 min
July 15Windows Weekly 992: Gassy Jack
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday just shattered records with hundreds of bug fixes, and AI is the force behind the surge. Are we witnessing the beginning of a safer Windows, or is this flood of vulnerabilities the new normal? Plus, Tony Redmond's epic book has a new name (was Office 365 for IT Pros) and is now a bundle of four books.
Windows
Patch Tuesday is here!

Point in Time Restore, quieter Widgets, Windows Update improvements, Screen tint, and more

The biggest Patch Tuesday in history, by far: a record 570 fixes for security flaws, and a huge 3X increase from the then-record flaws fixed last month. (Some say the number is 622. Math is hard.) And this is on top of 468 Microsoft Edge/Chromium flaws that were fixed by Google this month too. Yikes.

Microsoft discusses how it's improving Windows security with AI

Windows Insider Program: Improved Windows Search is next on the docket, heading out to Experimental this week. Question: When do these things hit stable?

Microsoft releases Snapdragon X2 versions of its Surface for Business Pro and Laptop models
AI
Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secrets

Surprised there was no talk of "thermonuclear war"

OpenAI's response is hilarious, and it is already prepping its first hardware device

OpenAI just announced the rumored super app, which is a combination of ChatGPT, Work, Codex, and an in-app web browser, which replaces the standalone Atlas web browser. Also, GPT-5.6.

In keeping with recent history, Anthropic announced its in-app web browser for Claude less than 24 hours later

Reminder that Microsoft acknowledged that it, too, is working on an AI super app at Build

Apple releases public betas of its OS 27 releases and, shocker, Siri is really good

Now Spotify has an AI chatbot so I can tell it how much I hate Spotify
Xbox and gaming
Obsidian is working on a new Fallout game, duh.

A quiet time after last week's terribleness
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Microsoft 365 for IT Pros (2027 edition) is here!

App pick of the week: MusicBee

RunAs Radio this week: Finding Security Vulnerabilities using AI with Sami Laiho

Brown liquor pick of the week: Sanctuary Single Malt Whisky Reserve Edition

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 33 min
July 14Security Now 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to keep up as vulnerabilities surface at record speed.
Europe warns their largest banks to prepare for AI attack.

The EU launches an action plan for AI Cybersecurity.

China considers keeping its budget AI to itself.

The UK's NCSC & GCHQ announce their "Cyber Shield".

CISA is using Mythos to audit U.S. government code.

Microsoft warns of their upcoming patch flood.

"RoguePlanet" receives an on-the-fly patch.

An underused mode to kid-proof an iPhone.

Listener feedback and three new AI attacks

HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1087-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 49 min
July 14MacBreak Weekly 1033: Liquid Glass Half Full
Apple sues OpenAI! Public beta for iOS 27 & more is now available. Apple seeks to move to the M7 chips quickly. And Apple TV gets a record 87 total Emmy nominations!
Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets.

Apple says former employee exploited 'rare' bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI.

Apple's public betas for iOS 27 and more are out now.

First Look: iOS 27 & macOS Golden Gate public beta.

watchOS 27 public beta is here with Siri AI and smarter Apple Watch features.

AirPods firmware beta lets developers use new iOS 27 features.

M6 era will last just six months as Apple pushes for AI-focused M7.

iPhone 18 Pro Max component costs could jump by nearly $300, per report.

No delay to iPhone Ultra, says supply-chain report.

Lamborghini App for Vision Pro.

Component development for cheaper Apple Vision Pro reportedly scrapped.

Emmy Awards 2026: Apple TV just landed a record 87 nominations.

Apple TV sets major Comic-Con lineup with Silo, Dark Matter, Widow's Bay, more.

Apple TV has a packed lineup of sports premieres coming soon.

TV-logging app TV Time is functionally relaunching as parent company pivots to AI.
Picks of the Week
Jason's Pick: Television Time

Andy's Pick: Colorful Life

Christina's Pick: GitHub Copilot Desktop A

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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2 hr 28 min
July 12This Week in Tech 1092: You Brought a Knife to a Wolf Fight
Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, sparking a heated debate about AI, hardware ambitions, and Silicon Valley's shifting alliances. Leo, Wesley, Lou, and Patrick tackle what Apple's legal gambit could mean for OpenAI's IPO and the future of AI development.
Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Blockbuster Case

Apple's OpenAI lawsuit highlights broader tensions

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

Claude Fable 5 promotional access

Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial

Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash

Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment

Meta Ordered by E.U. to Alter 'Addictive Design' of Instagram and Facebook

The backlash against Sony ditching PlayStation discs is not slowing down

Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups

Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns

Waymo says some of its robotaxis ran out of power during San Francisco's July 4 gridlock and had to be towed

Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again

Copy That Floppy! - Copy That Floppy!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Louis Maresca, and Patrick Beja

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3 hr 27 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.