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The DOJ may be preparing to investigate Google, burning blu-ray discs, the state of AI automation vs. human jobs, the right internet speed for streaming video, has my Google Home Hub been hacked? Internet for rural areas, backing up photos from a phone, is a Chromebook secure? And more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories

• Modern OS: It's the future of Windows, vaguely. In a boring blog post about new PCs, Microsoft suddenly---if vaguely---starts discussing something called Modern OS. And it is not Windows 10. Or is it?
• Related: PCs continue evolving despite the down market, and I like what they've become. Plus, Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, is somehow experiencing big PC sales growth.
• Dell tips something called Windows 10 Home Ultra. This is almost certainly the new name for Windows 10 Home Advanced, which Thurrott.com revealed a year ago. But Microsoft says "Ultra" does not exist.
• Windows 10 version 1903 ekes out into the world, slowly.
• Much ado about nothing with new Microsoft Edge, again
• Microsoft celebrates 10 years of Bing. Which was not its first search engine. Or 2nd or 3rd either. When did Bing finally turn a profit? 2015
• Microsoft is making a Pro IntelliMouse for some reason.
• There's a purple Xbox One S on the way!
• New messaging experience comes to Xbox app
• Related: PS Now is the biggest game streaming service today

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Configure Paste Options in OneNote for Windows 10
• App pick of the week: Use your iPhone camera to turn a photo of table data into a spreadsheet
• Enterprise pick of the week: Admins deploying 1903: Check this box
• Codename pick of the week: Kumo
• Beer pick of the week: Edmund's Oast Brewing Company Fountain Drink

NEXT WEEK: We will be in Amsterdam! But never fear: The Windows Weekly show will go on. Usual time, except we'll be at ExpertsLive NL.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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This Week's Stories

• Google's White Collar Sweatshop
• Killing CDA 230 Would Kill the Internet
• Musk's Starlink Satellites Could Kill Space Exploration
• The US vs Huawei: This is How the US Economy Crashes
• Google's Cold Fusion Experiment Fizzles
• YouTube Blocks Microsoft Edge
• Google Duplex is Made of People
• Consumer Reports: Tesla's Self-Driving Cars Aren't.
• Neal Stephenson thinks Social Media is a "Doomsday Machine"
• How to Beat the Facebook Algorithm
• A Quantum Random Number Generator
• Jeff Jarvis Designs the Facebook Oversight Committee
• The French Might have the Right Idea on How to Regulate Facebook
• Should Facebook Take Down Drunk Pelosi?
• Finland vs Fake News
• Elizabeth Warren's Big Billboard
• Zuck Can No Longer Visit Canada
• Amazon Shareholders love Facial Recognition
• Amazon to Kill off Small Business... on Amazon
• Podcasts are a Billion Dollar Business in China
• Pole Dancing Rats on the NY Subway

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tools: nextdns and the Million Pound Virus-laden Laptop
• Jeff's Number: Trump's Tweets Drop to 0.16% Potency
• Mathew's Stuff: Mona Lisa AI and Bill Hader Al Pacino Deep fake

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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• The Internet is Doomed: BlueKeep Attacks Windows Remote Desktop Protocol
• Google Stores Unhashed G Suite Passwords
• Sandbox Escaper Drops FIVE New Zero-Day Exploits
• Microsoft's Just-released Win10 Feature Update 1903
• Security Enhancements in Firefox's Release 67

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This Week's Stories
• WWDC Preview: Mac Pro Announcement
• WWDC Preview: iOS 13
• WWDC Preview: MacOS 10.15 and Marzipan
• WWDC Preview: WatchOS 6
• Apple Releases a New(ish) iPod Touch
• How Will the Huawei Fracas Affect Apple?
• PlayDate: the Handheld Game Console with a Crank
• Apple and Amazon are Killing Small Business
• Canada is Getting Apple Maps and Apple Watch ECG
• Two Bluetooths per Phone coming to iPhone
• iOS 12.3.1 Fixes Messages and VoLTE
• Apple's Abacus is All Wrong
• Tim Cook tweets about the Chronicles of San Francisco
• Apple-1 Sells for $471K at Auction

Picks of the Week
• Leo's Pick: Playdate: A New Handheld Gaming System with a crank
• Leo's Pick 2: What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns
• Andy's Pick: Pop! OS and balenaEtcher
• Rene's Pick: Nebula
• Lory's Pick: BookBook Vol. 2 for iPad Pro (2018)

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk to Greg Pierce (aka Agile Tortoise) about his app called Drafts and what he expects to see from WWDC. They also chat with Jean MacDonald (from Micro.Blog), the founder of App Camp for Girls.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

Guests: Greg Pierce and Jean MacDonald

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• Baltimore City Government held for Ransom by Hackers Using NSA tools
• Own a House? Hackers Probably have your Social Security Number.
• PlayDate: The Gaming Handheld with a Crank
• Is Huawei Spying on Us?
• Intel Breaks the 5.0GHz Barrier
• Chinese Owner of Grindr Leaked User Data to Employees
• US Air Force Being Cyber Attacked by US Navy
• AMD Brings Ray Tracing to Computex
• GDPR: One Year Later
• Assange Charged under the Espionage Act
• AI Deepfake Brings Mona Lisa to Life
• Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Due to Disturbing GGI
• SpaceX Launches Starlink Internet Satellites
• The United States vs Lootboxes

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Norton and Brianna Wu

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Johnny Jet and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories

• Microsoft and Sony make a game streaming megadeal. Exactly what the deal will yield is a bit murky, but this could be a big customer win for Azure and xCloud.
• How about that Minecraft Earth app? Another Azure win (Azure Spatial Anchors is at its heart)
• Windows 10 1903 released. Almost everyone can get it (consumers, businesses, volume licensees) as of May 21.
• The new Windows Release Health dashboard is worth a bookmark
• Windows Server 1903 is generally available too - is it Windows Server, version 1903 or Windows Server 2019??
• Chredge is available as a Canary preview for macOS
• Surface Headphones get a permanent $100 price cut. Uh-oh.
• Huawei is in trouble on all fronts: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and ARM. No word yet where Microsoft stands.
• Full differential sync is (finally) coming to OneDrive for Biz
• Microsoft announces more goodness for Xbox Game Pass
• Phil Spencer wants fewer dicks on Xbox Live. Good luck with that.

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Save big at the Xbox Backward Compatibility sale
• Tip of the week 2: Google has some good advice for account security.
• App pick of the week: Simplify for Gmail
• Tip of the week 2: Your Phone Companion for Android now supports cellular data sync.
• Enterprise pick of the week: A banned-passwords tool from Microsoft
• Codename pick of the week: Windows 10 EVD
• Beer pick of the week: Evil Twin's Miami's Finest

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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