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Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.

OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns

ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal

BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks

OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot

OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again

OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Where did you think the training data was coming from?

You could be an influencer without even realizing it

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more

William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company

ET Fall Preview 1994

Payphone Go

This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day

Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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From bug-busting AI that's transforming Firefox to personal coding breakthroughs, the team breaks down how practical applications are cutting through skepticism and reshaping developer workflows. Plus, hear why lighter Patch Tuesdays are refreshing from time to time!

Windows 11

Patch Tuesday's familiar list of updates: Network speed test, Camera tilt and pan controls, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP support for desktop wallpaper, Emoji 16.0, etc.

It's been a light year so far for Patch Tuesday features - that's a good thing

New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta late last week. Canary is nothing, Dev/Beta get Administrator Protection, Drag Tray refinements, File Explorer improvements, and fixes

Android 16 QPR3 brings Desktop Mode to Android devices - and a hands-on with Pixel phones and tablets shows the way forward for Android-based laptops later this year

Intel has new gaming processors for creators and gamers and they look excellent and are inexpensive

AI and dev

Copilot Cowork is literally Claude Cowork in Microsoft 365 - "Wave 3" for Microsoft 365 Copilot begins with a lot of agentic features, in private preview at first

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive get big Gemini updates for consumers and Workspace customers

Mozilla partners with Anthropic to use AI to find bugs, and it's paying off nicely

Visual Studio Code moves to a weekly update schedule

The .NET 11 Preview 2 is here

Xbox and gaming

Microsoft starts talking up next Xbox console! It's called Project Helix and, yes, it will run Windows games

New Xbox Mode is on the way

Project Helix dev kits to game makers in 2027

Satya Nadella explains why he/Microsoft are "long" on gaming

Gaming is a core identity for Microsoft alongside platforms, developers, and knowledge workers

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Nostalgia with a purpose

App pick of the week: Stardock Clairvoyance

RunAs Radio this week: SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward

Brown liquor pick of the week: Canadian Centennial Rye Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at scale, challenging everything we thought we knew about internet privacy.

Anthropic & Mozilla improve Firefox's security.

Apple & Google begin testing cross-platform RCS encryption.

Ubuntu's SUDO starts echoing asterisks.

Inviting a web proxy into your home.

Apple devices cleared by Germany for NATO's use.

A serious remote takeover of OpenClaw.

TokTok won't encrypt messaging for visibility.

Microsoft bans the term "Microslop" on Discord.

Lot's of great listener feedback.

LLMs could make Orwell's 1984 seem optimistic.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1069-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, the company's foray into a low-cost laptop. The iPhone Fold's supposed design has leaked through 3D CAD rendering files. And a toolkit for hacking iPhones has leaked.

18 years later, Apple ships a $599 computer.

Apple's TikTok ads for the MacBook Neo are the right kind of weird.

Apple creates adorable little Finder guy to promote its adorable little Mac.

The new Apple begins to emerge.

Apple 'Ultra' products expansion is up next after MacBook Neo launch.

iPhone Fold design leaks in purported 3D CAD rendering files.

Apple's 'HomePad' gets launch timing update via leaker.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage.

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report.

Apple ran a test on the App Store to see if AI could improve search result rankings.

Apple geoblocking downloads of ByteDance-owned apps in the US.

A toolkit for hacking iPhones, possibly created for the U.S. Government, has leaked.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'Apple' Review: Reinvention Incorporated.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: What's Your JND Game

Andy's Pick: Kids, Wait Till You Hear This

Jason's Pick: Cloth Pro Max

Leo's Pick: Art Bits from HyperCard

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

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Between copyright-free AI art, government blacklists, and data brokers run amok, this episode spotlights the fierce new battles for privacy, agency, and control in our digital lives. Plus, hear Cory Doctorow break down why the AI gold rush may be headed for a colossal crash.

Pentagon Officially Tells Anthropic It Is a Supply Chain Risk

Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic AI from all government work

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT user base surges 350% in 18 months as it nears 1 billion weekly active users

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after the Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Alphabet Grants Sundar Pichai Stock Awards Worth Up to $686 Million

Google vs Epic Games ends with Android app stores, lower fees

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores - Slashdot

Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games

Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS - Slashdot

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

Anne Wojcicki's Plan to Revive 23andMe: Rich Donors, Improved Tests—and Maybe Even MAHA

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

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Guests: Joey de Villa and Cory Doctorow

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