• Interview with Nikita Roy
• Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
• When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.
• Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
• The Dark Power of Fraternities
• Monkey.zip
• High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers
• A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
• 'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
• A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging
• Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says
• OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'
• Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped
• Pickled Popeyes
• A new season of Game Changer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nikita Roy

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Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!

Windows 11

• Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:
• Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June
• Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above
• Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app
• Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday
• Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier
• Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta
• Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry

Hardware

• Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10
• First major change under new Intel CEO
• What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see
• Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group

AI

• Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent
• Adobe is going agentic too
• OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network
• OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models
• ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory
• Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration
• Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink

Xbox and games

• Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google??
• COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks
• Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories
• Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net
• Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise
• App pick of the week: Notion Mail
• RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes
• Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
• What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
• Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
• My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
• Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
• Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
• Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
• An Apple -vs- the UK update.
• "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?)
• The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.
• When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages.
• Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit.
• Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1021-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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