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February 13, 2025Tech News Weekly 374: AI's First Major Copyright Loss
It's an AI-filled episode of Tech News Weekly! Is AI making us think less critically than before? Are AI chatbots accurately summarizing news? A BBC study finds that they are not. Google plans to use machine learning to estimate a user's age. Thomson Reuters wins the first major AI copyright case within the US.
Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week! Amanda talks about a study on how over-reliance on AI tools can lead to diminished critical thinking skills.

Mikah shares a BBC study that looked into AI chatbots and how they performed poorly at summarizing news, with over half of the summarizations containing glaring errors.

Emma Roth of The Verge joins the show to discuss Google utilizing machine learning to estimate users' ages based off their browsing history and YouTube activity.

And Mikah talks about Thomson Reuters winning the first big US AI copyright case.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling

Guest: Emma Roth

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55 min
February 12, 2025Intelligent Machines 806: I'm Piffed
Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up

Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC

Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV"

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key

"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed

How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"

The Strategy Behind Musk's $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI

'Doomers' Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times

WikiTok

BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 24 min
February 12, 2025Windows Weekly 919: The Supermodel of Apps
Patch Tuesday has arrived and Windows 11 23H2/24H2 gets those preview updates we talked about two weeks ago: Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects on taskbar, File Explorer improvements, Mouse improvements, Time Zone changes without admin privileges, OneDrive continuity (23H2 only), Windows Share improvements (23H2 only), new keyboard shortcut for Magnifier. While Windows 10 gets the new Outlook, you lucky dogs!
Windows
Beta (yesterday) - Beta/Dev window is open, Beta will move to 24H2 soon, this new build was for 23H2, new Paint app

MIDI IS BACK BABY! MIDI Services 2.0 now in public preview

Photos app OCR capabilities are back - feature was in testing but disabled in November, supports 160 languages

HoloLens is finally dead: Microsoft partners with tech bro to offload US Army contract
AI/Dev
Microsoft schedules Build 2025 for May 19-22. And then Google schedules I/O 2025 for May 20-21

Elon Musk and investors supposedly make bid for OpenAI - hilarity ensues

OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is

OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is

You don't have to sign in to OpenAI to use ChatGPT Search now

Google Gemini 2.0 family is now (mostly) generally available

GitHub Copilot is getting agentic features this year

Remember the so-called Windows Copilot Runtime? It's finally happening. Paul noticed that the Windows App SDK 1.7 Experimental 3 release finally had WCR bits, was quietly released last week

Coding hands-on: Building text rewrite and summarize requires just a few lines of code
More Earnings/Corporate
Qualcomm - $11.7 billion in revenues, up 17 percent

It's over! Arm Holdings drops Qualcomm complaint, will not terminate license

Amazon: $188 billion in revenues, up 9.5 percent - AWS was $29 billion in revenues, up 16 percent. Amazon to spend $75 billion this fiscal year on AI infrastructure build-out, similar to MSFT, that figure was $28 billion in the previous quarter

Here comes Conversational Alexa - Amazon devices and services event February 26

Sonos continues its downward spiral - Before earnings, restructuring and layoffs
Xbox
Good news/bad news on Xbox console sales - Better than expected, honestly

Candy Crush Solitaire is first new King game under Xbox - Perfect King/Microsoft mashup
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: A few steps forward (and back) for the 2025 online accounts push

Tip of the week #2: Get the Bill Gates book Source Code

App pick of the week: Notion is nearly perfect

RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 with Robert Smit

Brown liquor pick of the week: Mackmyra Brukswhisky

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

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2 hr 3 min
February 06, 2025Tech News Weekly 373: AI Wins a Grammy
In this episode of Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent and CNET's Abrar Al-Heeti talk the latest developments in self-driving tech, Sonos' work on a new streaming box, an AI-assisted Beatles song winning a Grammy, and the current state of Meta's Quest platform according to developers.
Uber is expanding its partnership with Waymo, allowing people in Austin to summon a Waymo robo-taxi through the Uber app. Abrar shares her experiences with self-driving cars and discusses the evolving relationship between Uber and Waymo.

Sonos is reportedly working on a new streaming box codenamed "Pinewood," which includes an HDMI switch to address inconsistencies in smart TV firmware and software. The device is expected to cost between $200 and $400, and it aims to provide a full-featured streaming sound setup.

An AI-assisted Beatles track, "Now and Then," won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance, sparking conversations about the role of AI in music and art. The US Copyright Office has stated that AI tools used to assist in the creative process don't undermine the copyright of the work.

Developers are struggling with declining sales and visibility on the Meta Quest app store, despite record revenue for Meta Reality Labs. Meta's focus on its own Horizon Worlds app seems to be at the expense of traditional VR games. Some developers find it more profitable to sell on other platforms like Steam and PlayStation VR.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti

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1 hr 4 min
January 30, 2025Tech News Weekly 372: Return of the Pebble Smartwatch
Bookshop.org is now offering a Kindle alternative. How hackers are hijacking WordPress sets to put out malware. And how people are freaking out about DeepSeek since it made a huge splash this past week.
Dan Moren is joining Mikah Sargent this week! Dan talks about how Bookshop.org is now selling e-books, but Dan has concerns about how this could present technological challenges with DRM and app store fees.

Mikah shares how hackers are hijacking WordPress sites and using them to push out malware for both Windows and Mac machines.

Mikah also talks about how DeepSeek has made a huge splash in the technology world since this past Sunday and what has happened with the technology community and AI as a whole.

And Eric Migicovsky, founder of the smartwatch company Pebble, joins Mikah to talk about exciting news with Pebble.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren

Guest: Eric Migicovsky

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1 hr 3 min
January 28, 2025MacBreak Weekly 957: Slap and Flop
What's going on with Siri? iOS 18.3 update is out now, along with a fix to a zero-day flaw. You can buy iPhones on eBay with TikTok installed on them as TikTok is still not available for download on the App Store. And on January 27th, 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at an Apple event.
Siri is super dumb and getting dumber.

iOS 18.3 is now available for everyone.

Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades.

Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices.

iPhone's with TikTok installed.

Update now: iOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3 include 20+ security updates.

Apple Music pays artists more than 2x Spotify's average rates, per report.

Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership.

iPhone SE 4 appears in new photos and video, notch and all.

Apple releases tvOS 18.3, HomePod 18.3, and visionOS 2.3 for all users.

Apple earnings are coming.

Office printer mishap sparks landmark gender pay discrimination lawsuit at Apple.

Apple buys Boylston Street building for $88 million.

Apple's next immersive Vision Pro film involves bull riding and arrives soon.

Apple introduces the 2025 Black Unity Collection.

Apple Watch bands are safe to wear, says Apple, after lawsuit filed.

Oscar nominations completely snub Apple TV+.

Severance - Tim C.

Apple announced the iPad 15 years ago today.
Picks of the Week:
Mikah's Pick: LARQ Bottle PureVis 2

Alex's Pick: Power Prompter

Andy's Picks: Retrobatch 2

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 11 min
January 26, 2025 Hands-On Tech 200: Duplicate Photos In My Folders!
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps Richard figure out why there are duplicate photos of the same picture in his photo folders! Plus, Mikah answers Lance's question about Windows 11 and some devices being labeled as removable external storage devices. And Mikah shares a follow-up from Jack about his problem with his Gmail storage space.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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26 min
January 23, 2025Tech News Weekly 371: A Look Into the Galaxy S25 Ultra
A massive data breach affected millions of students, parents, and teachers. Someone discovered security flaws within Subaru vehicles. And everything that was announced at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025.
Emily Forlini is joining Mikah Sargent this week! Emily talks about a massive security incident with software company PowerSchool, in which 62 million students' personal data was stolen, along with parents and teachers.

Mikah talks about how a security researcher discovered a security flaw within a Subaru vehicle that gave them access to its location data through web vulnerabilities.

And Patrick Holland from CNET joins the show to discuss everything unveiled at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, including the S25 phones.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini

Guest: Patrick Holland

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55 min
January 19, 2025Hands-On Tech 199: Managing Spam Emails
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah helps Lars, who is seeking help for a friend who is being flooded with spam emails and is looking for a way to filter out the spam emails!
Mikah strongly recommends transitioning away from ISP-provided email addresses, as they often get shuffled between companies and can face service disruptions

There are also some options to consider when moving from an old email account, such as setting up auto-responses directing to the new address or configuring your new email account to pull from your old account.

Mikah suggests two things to do. The first is to create a Gmail account to leverage its excellent spam filtering capabilities, then configure it to pull mail from the Cox address and connect it to Outlook.

The second option is to use local spam filtering software like Mailwasher, which offers Bayesian filtering that learns from user input to improve spam detection over time.

Other software options to consider are Spambully, Spamfighter, and clean.io, though some may not work without MX record access.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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23 min
January 16, 2025Tech News Weekly 370: TikTok Might Shut Off Its US App
A whole slew of smart products were unveiled at CES 2025 this year. Could this year be the year of smart home devices? TikTok is inching closer to being shut off in the US in a few days. And following Microsoft's announcement of end of support for Windows 10, the company announced it will no longer offer support for the Office 365 apps on Windows 10 after October 14th, 2025.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has returned from CES 2025! She spent her time at the convention checking out all things smart home devices on the show floor and shares with Mikah Sargent some of her favorite devices she covered for The Verge.

Kaya Yurieff of The Information joins Mikah to talk about the latest on the imminent shutdown of TikTok in the US that is scheduled to happen on Sunday, January 19th.

And Ben Wilson from Windows Central stops by to talk about Microsoft's announcement that the Office 365 apps on Windows 10 will no longer be offered support after October 14th, 2025, coinciding with the end of support for the operating system.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Guests: Kaya Yurieff and Ben Wilson

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1 hr 6 min

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