• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
• Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
• "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
• Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
• An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
• All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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• Interview with Stephen Wolfram
• OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
• Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
• AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.
• Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers
• Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI
• Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue
• Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition
• Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1
• To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral
• Grok 3's "sexy mode"
• Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
• When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
• Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'
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Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive?

Windows

• 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.
• Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
• Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views
• Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
• Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop
• Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows
• Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more
• Amazon kills Appstore for Android
• Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
• Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

• Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot
• Alexa enters the AI era
• OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users
• Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI
• Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist
• Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
• ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
• OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers
• Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder
• Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks
• NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone
• .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox

• Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one
• Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix
• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
• RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
• Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.
• Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.
• Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.
• Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.
• The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.
• What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?
• The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.
• Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.
• We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".
• A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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It's not surprising that Apple announced the iPhone 16e the day after last week's MacBreak Weekly. Already, some information about the upcoming iPhone 17 is being leaked, including some information about the rumored slim iPhone 17. And Apple is removing encrypted security features for your cloud data within the UK following the UK government ordering Apple to leave backdoor access to users' data.

• iPhone 16e: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone.
• Apple officially bids farewell to the Lightning port after 13 years.
• Per Ming-chi Kuo: all iPhone 17 models will use Apple's in-house Wi-Fi chips, enhancing connectivity and cutting costs; only the slim iPhone 17 will use the C1 modem chip.
• Apple removes cloud encryption feature from UK after backdoor order.
• Apple currently only able to detect Pegasus spyware in half of infected iPhones.
• Apple to invest $500 billion in U.S. as Trump tariffs loom.
• MacBook Air stocks start to dwindle ahead of M4 update.
• Apple Vision Pro immersive video 'Arctic Surfing' available now.
• Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April.
• Apple prepares to add Google Gemini to Apple Intelligence.
• Steve Jobs Archive marks Apple co-founder's 70th birthday.
• The new Beeper app combines all of Automattic's messaging systems.

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: Hyperspace
• Jason's Pick: Framous
• Alex's Pick: Blackmagic 2110
• Andy's Pick: Desert Island Discs, with Johnny Ive.

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• Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange
• Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order
• iOS18.4 Beta adds priority notifications, support for robot vacs in Apple Home, but no smarter siri
• Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
• OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
• The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom
• Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
• Spotify is making it easier to release audiobooks narrated by AI
• California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers
• Donald Trump Is Turning CISA Into The Embodiment Of His Election Conspiracy Theories
• Asus Continues Fragrant Device Trend With an Aromatic Mouse - Slashdot
• iPhone 16E: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone
• Smart ring tracks health, fitness data with long battery life

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• Interview with the founders of Bee.computer
• Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee?
• Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
• Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
• A 'Teleportation' Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here
• Google's AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes
• Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
• Marcus: Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI
• Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
• The Humane AI Pin: A $700 Brick of E-Waste
• AI Notetakers In Meetings Are Making Me Queasy - Bloomberg
• AI Designs Plastic-Digesting Enzyme
• Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
• Google Lens powering new 'Screen Search' in Chrome for iOS
• Extra Finger ring
• On Probabilism and Determinism in AI
• My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani
• A delightful look into the Murdochs' Succession Drama
• James Murdoch interview
• Roasted Chicken Thighs With Hot Honey and Lime
• Leobait: Thermomix cult
• Australian lamb video with comments section

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On this episode, Paul Thurrott, Leo Laporte, and Richard Campbell explore the Windows KB5052086 update, the new Linux kernel drama, quantum computing, and more. Microsoft has announced the very first QPU, powered by topological qubits! Can the hosts possibly comprehend how this works? Later, Paul strongly emphasizes how AI can save users lots of time. Finally, Richard features a whisky that was recently brought to his 30th wedding anniversary!

Windows

• Dev channel: "Important" update because of the coming change to Recall soon, so here's an update that will wipe out all your data. One guess about what that means. Plus, a nice change to the Recall pop-up
• Release Preview (24H2): A preview of the preview that we'll preview next time
• Release Preview (23H2): Basically the same features as above, keeping the two aligned
• Microsoft deprecates location history in Windows 11 - depreciation junction, what's your function?
• Microsoft Edge gets more WebUI 2-based performance improvements
• Clipchamp just keeps getting better

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft: Just kidding about that MSA and Entra ID sign-in experience change
• Outlook mobile is getting a new font picker, a recall email feature (finally), and a minimize email message feature.
• ExpressVPN (TWiT sponsor) rewrote its VPN protocol in Rust

AI

• Microsoft announces a Quantum computing breakthrough, first quantum processor
• Flareup in Linux kernel management maps directly to what we see with AI - Two extremes but a clear middle ground
• Long story short, AI is all about saving you time - this is the "many small things, not one big thing" argument
• Copilot gets new voice capabilities
• In case you were worried, OpenAI formally rejects buyout offer
• OpenAI will also simplify its model offerings
• Google Gemini now remembers what you said, unlike your husband
• xAI launches Grok3 model but only for X Premium subscribers

Xbox

• Avowed launches, with many other Game Pass titles coming through the end of February
• Microsoft announced a generative AI model for video games
• Sony just had its best-ever PS5 sales quarter

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Find your AI "ah-ha" moment
• App pick of the week: Notion. And iA Writer 2 for Windows is here
• RunAs Radio this week: Managed DevOps Pools with Eliza Tarasila
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Signal Hill

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