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May 28, 2025Intelligent Machines 821: Just Count the Server Racks
Interview with Adam Becker

Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology

Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film

Wow: So this is all AI-generated. (with Veo)

Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto - Slashdot

venice.ai

Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger's dream

Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won't Replace Employees

The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us

Nvidia results

"Just Count the Server Racks"...

Why one of the world's major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia

Henry Blodget is the only employee in an AI newsroom

Claude's System Card

Film and Television Script Archive

David Lynch auction

A new season of Taskmaster!

Mountainhead

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Adam Becker

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May 28, 2025Windows Weekly 934: OK, JK
Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom.
Windows 11
It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar
Windows Insider Program
Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks

Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup

New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.)

Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too

As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store

Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app
Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially?
Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units
AI and Web Browsers, Oh My
Browsers go agentic
The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia

Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser

Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company

Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model)

Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode

Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile

Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule?
Xbox and Games
Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta

FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2
Tips and Picks
Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle'
App Pick of the Week: Instapaper
Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11

RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young

Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 28min
May 27, 2025Security Now 1027: Artificial Intelligence
What the status of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)?

What radio technology would be best for remote inverter shutdown?

Some DNS providers already block newly listed domains.

Knowing when not to click a link can take true understanding.

Why can losing a small portion of a power grid bring the rest down?

Where are we in the "AI Hype Cycle" and is this the first?

Speaking of hype: An AI system resorted to blackmail?

Why are we so quick to imbue AI with awareness?

ChatGPT's latest o3 model ignored the order to shutdown.

Copilot may not be making Windows core code any better.

Venice.AI is an unfiltered and unrestrained LLM

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 55min
May 27, 2025MacBreak Weekly 974: Lyle Who?
Apple had plans to launch full satellite services. President Trump is threatening Apple with a 25% tariff on iPhones manufactured overseas. Former Apple designer Jony Ive enters a new partnership with Sam Altman of OpenAI. And what is 'Solarium,' Apple's rumored unified interface that the company could announce at WWDC25?
Apple's satellite ambitions threatened by Elon Musk, internal resistance.

Trump threatens 25 percent tariff on iPhones manufactured overseas.

Tim Cook's 'off-ramp' to placate Trump.

Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices.

Apple & Epic agree no in-person court necessary after 'Fortnite' restored to App Store.

Sam and Jony and skepticism.

Apple prepares iOS 19, macOS 16 'Solarium' UI overhaul for WWDC.

App Store protected users from $9 billion in fraud over five years.

Tap to Pay on iPhone lands today in eight new countries.

Global wearable band market up 13% in Q1 2025 as Xiaomi takes top spot.

Apple absolutely cannot miss its smart glasses swing.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: TotalMount

Leo Picks: Clic for Sonos & WhatsApp iPad App

Alex's Pick: Tiles for Zoom

Andy's Pick: pico-mac-nano

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

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2h 6min
May 25, 2025This Week in Tech 1033: Our Friend Zinc
In this jam-packed episode celebrating Towel Day, the TWiT crew dives into Apple's terrible week with Trump's tariff threats, Google and Microsoft's latest AI advances, the death of CAPTCHAs, and some wild new tech including laser-powered smart homes and sock-picking robot vacuums.
Trump's Phone Tariff Ultimatum - President threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones and Samsung devices unless manufacturing moves to the US, putting Apple in an impossible position between economics and politics

The Sock-Stealing Robot Revolution - Jennifer tests a $2,600 Roborock vacuum with an arm that picks up socks and occasionally tries to grab cats

Microsoft's AI Science Breakthrough - Microsoft Build showcases agentic AI platform that helped create new coolant liquids by analyzing scientific journals and generating novel molecular compounds

Windows Goes Agentic - Microsoft announces MCP protocol integration into Windows, raising both excitement about AI capabilities and concerns about data security

Gaming Industry Consolidation - FTC finally drops its challenge to Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition after three years of failed legal battles

Meta's Monopoly Defense Strategy - Company argues that Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were beneficial rather than anti-competitive, as antitrust trial concludes

Google's Hyper-Realistic AI Videos - Veo 3 generates convincing fake videos that blur the line between reality and AI creation, raising concerns about misinformation

Revenge Porn Legislation Concerns - New "Take It Down" Act passes with bipartisan support but raises censorship worries about its 48-hour removal requirements

Smart Glasses Make a Comeback - Google announces Android XR partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, signaling the return of consumer AR eyewear

The $6.5 Billion AI Hardware Gamble - OpenAI's record-breaking acquisition of Jony Ive's design firm sparks debate about whether AI needs dedicated hardware devices

Amazon's Smart Speaker Surveillance - Investigation reveals how much personal data Echo devices collect and store, highlighting the privacy costs of convenient AI assistants

The Death of CAPTCHAs - AI now solves visual puzzles better than humans, making traditional bot-detection methods obsolete and forcing a rethink of online security

America Abandons the Penny - The US will stop minting pennies due to production costs exceeding face value, ending a century-old currency tradition

Air Traffic Control Crisis Exposed - Newark Airport's radar failures reveal America's dangerously outdated aviation infrastructure held together by 1990s technology and hope

Fortnite's App Store Victory - Epic Games successfully returns to iOS after Apple quickly capitulates under legal pressure, ending years of bitter disputes

Brain-Computer Interface Competition - Valve's Gabe Newell announces Neuralink competitor, expanding the race to connect human brains directly to computers

Infrared Contact Lenses Enable Night Vision - Researchers develop contacts that let wearers see heat signatures even with eyes closed, promising superhuman vision capabilities

23andMe's Genetic Data Gold Rush - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals acquires the DNA testing company for $256 million, raising questions about genetic privacy and

Stolen

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1033

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan
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2h 47min
May 21, 2025Intelligent Machines 820: Watch Your Wallet Jony
Interview with Kate O'Neill

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI

Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars

We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'

OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

The environmental impact of LLMs ranked

NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?

Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified

Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses

Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.

Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'

How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher

No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts

AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment

OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion

Gingers are Black

Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???

Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...

New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam

Lego cat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)

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2h 40min
May 21, 2025Windows Weekly 933: Live from Build
Agentic AI is the theme of the show this year, and this time its multi-agent with orchestration! But first, we need to discuss the protestors. Paul and Richard have stories. So many stories!
Build 2025
New Microsoft 365 Copilot features are rolling out now because it's a day that ends in y

Tuning is the unexpected Build Bingo center square term - rolling out to agents

GitHub Copilot is open source in VS Code, more

Win32 app support improvements, no more fees in Microsoft Store

A shift in making Windows 11 the best place for developers - some things said, some left unsaid

Edge gets new AI features too of course

New native app capabilities in Windows App SDK, React Native

And, pre-Build, 50 million Visual Studio users

Copilot for consumers does image generation now. Fun tip: You can Minecraft-ize photos

OpenAI has a coding agent too, obviously

And OpenAI is buying Jony Ive!
Windows
Administrator Protection is coming soon - And not just for businesses. This feels very much like the firewall in XP SP2, it's going to be disruptive

New 24H2 features in Release Preview: New text actions in Click to Do, a lot more

New 24H2 features in Dev and Beta: AI actions in File Explorer, Advanced Settings, Search improvements, more

New 23H2 features, Windows 10 features in Release Preview

Surface Laptop Studio RIP

Calendar companion app for Windows 11/M365

Microsoft may finally put the Teams antitrust issue in the EU behind
Xbox
Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store

Apple blocked it first, Epic complained to judge

And Microsoft files a legal motion against Apple and for Epic Games

Qualcomm job listing confirms Xbox plans to some degree

What happens when you combine Qualcomm NPU with Nvidia GPU?

Xbox May Update arrives and it's a big one

Retro Classic Games for Xbox Game Pass

Game Bar updates, Edge Game Assist, GeForce now etc. on PC

Custom Xbox gift cards

More streaming of your own games

Hellblade II is coming from Xbox to PS5

Many more games coming to Xbox Game Pass across platforms
Tips and Picks
App pick of the week: You can try Microsoft's command line editor now

Game pick of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages

RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick

Brown liquor pick of the week: Tamnavulin Sherry Cask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 10min
May 20, 2025Security Now 1026: Rogue Comms Tech Found in US Power Grid
Chrome to actively refuse admin privileges.

Android Messenger is getting manual key verification.

Pwn2Own to add AI "pwning" as in-scope attack targets.

AI has already been found to be replicating.

Microsoft not killing off Office on Win10 after October.

23andMe's asset purchaser revealed.

Many fun talking points thanks to our listeners.

Steve's review of "Andor", season 2.

What's been discovered inside the U.S. power grid

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1026-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 48min
May 20, 2025MacBreak Weekly 973: Lyle Did It!
Apple's struggles to get AI right, and what Apple could do to correct itself. A never-ending update with Epic Games and Apple. Can China kill the iPhone overnight? And a new original Peanuts special is coming soon!
Why Apple still hasn't cracked AI.

Apple to open AI models to developers, betting that it will spur new apps.

Apple developer app updates with WWDC 2025 iMessage stickers.

How will Apple re-think AI features for WWDC 2025?

Epic asks judge to reinstate Fortnite on the App Store.

New 'Apple in China' book convincingly argues that the iPhone could be killed overnight.

Apple Maps gets in on F1 hype with Monaco update.

Trump praises Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Saudi Summit.

Trump says he doesn't want Apple building products in India.

Apple is 'dying to make' Vision Pro affordable, says Bono.

The Price is Right' contestants were off by thousands when guessing the cost of Apple's Vision Pro.

Universal Music Group and Apple Music announce Sound Therapy.

Apple TV+ announces "Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical," new original Peanuts special premiering globally July 18, 2025.

CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today.

Oops! I accidentally vibe-coded a ChatGPT client for my Apple Watch.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Pick: Pushover

Leo & Andy's Pick: NotebookLM

Alex's Pick: Murderbot

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

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2h 21min
May 18, 2025This Week in Tech 1032: Cardboard, Plastic Bags, & Duct Tape
GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation

Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust

Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI

How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed

OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away

25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI

Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores

Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store

Nextcloud accuses Google of "Big Tech gatekeeping" over Android app permissions

Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era

Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table

Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming

The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair

They're just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

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Guests: Wil Harris, Devindra Hardawar, and Harper Reed

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2h 39min

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