This week's episode dives deep into the post-WWDC hangover, exploring Apple's remarkable software improvements across platforms. The hosts examine the first third-party immersive video production using Blackmagic's new camera, celebrate major Vision Pro persona upgrades, and discuss Apple's complete re-architecture of iPad windowing. The conversation reveals how Apple's software teams seem to have hit their stride after years of criticism, delivering substantial improvements from terminal apps to AI integration.

• Canal+ MotoGP Documentary for Vision Pro - First third-party Apple immersive video production shot entirely with new Blackmagic URSA camera, featuring French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco
• Spatial Personas Get Major Upgrade - visionOS 26 delivers dramatically improved personas that actually look like real people, though beards still cause mouth-tracking issues
• Geographic Persistence and Room Mapping - visionOS 26 features allow virtual objects to stay in place across reboots and sessions
• Apple Home Hub Smart Display Discovery - Code found in iOS 26 dev beta reveals upcoming HomePod with screen, expected by the end of year
• iPad Multitasking Revolution - Craig Federighi explains the complete re-architecture of iPadOS 26 windowing system, bringing full Mac-style window management to iPad
• Background Task Processing - iPadOS 26 introduces finite background tasks for exports and file operations, finally allowing users to switch apps during long processes
• Software Quality Renaissance - Discussion of Apple's apparent software turnaround, from improved backend infrastructure (40% improvement moving from Java to Swift/Rust) to new developer APIs
• New Speech-to-Text APIs - Apple provides developers access to on-device transcription that's twice as fast as Whisper, though slightly less accurate
• Third-Party App Integration Improvements - Apple now allows music apps to show animated artwork on lock screen and provides access to various ML models
• Terminal and Spotlight Updates - macOS 26 features the first meaningful Terminal app update in years, plus pro features added to Spotlight, including clipboard history
• F1 Movie Marketing Blitz - Deep dive into Apple's $200+ million investment in the F1 film, including custom iPhone cameras built for race cars and haptic trailer experiences

Picks of the Week:
• Leo's Pick: Classic Sega iOS games going free before delisting on the App Store, including Crazy Taxi, Sonic titles, and Super Monkey Ball
• Jason's Pick: PlugShare app for electric vehicle owners to find compatible charging stations across all networks and plug types
• Andy's Pick: Usagi Yojimbo comic collection Humble Bundle featuring Stan Sakai's acclaimed samurai rabbit series, with proceeds supporting the Hero Initiative
• Alex's Pick: Perla iOS camera app designed to give iPhone footage an authentic 16mm film look and feel

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• Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
• Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow
• Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
• Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
• Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete
• Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel
• Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization
• IBM aims to build the world's first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
• Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
• Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe
• Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent
• YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024
• God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro
• Army reserve tech executives meta palantir
• Nintendo Switch 2 Is Fastest-Selling Game Console of All Time - Slashdot
• An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
• Anker recalls 1.1 million power banks due to fire hazard risk
• Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns
• Bald eagle live cam update: Babies are leaving nest. What's next?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Harry McCracken, and Jason Snell

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• Interview with Stephen Witt
• Altman's Gentle Singularity
• Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40
• Paris on Apple Glass
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
• Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement
• Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
• Futurism on the paper
• Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss
• YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos
• Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'
• Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers
• Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages'
• Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office
• 23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher
• Code to control vocal production with hands
• Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year
• Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Witt

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Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. Plus, the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to no longer host its Build conference in Seattle. Don't miss the discussion on the evolving role of the iPad as a potential threat to Surface devices due to recent software enhancements!

Windows 11

• June Patch Tuesday is here! Big changes for Windows 11 versions 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2
• New Start menu finally debuts in Dev and Beta - synchronized again for some reason
• Copilot+ PCs get Relight feature and natural language search in the Photos app
• The Microsoft Store gets a major update in the Beta channel
• And Canary is still a thing, no one knows why

Developer conference season draws to a close

• Build: Protests, problems, and more problems
• Microsoft pulls out of Seattle permanently
• Google I/O: Stunning array of AI announcements. But Android 16 is on a weird slow boil after a truncated development cycle
• Apple WWDC: Apple Intelligence? Look, Liquid Glass! Also, some actual advances across its newly unified platforms
• Look out Surface: The iPad is a real computer now - And it only took 15 years
• Microsoft, Google, and Apple all played to their strengths
• Between Windows 11 2xH2, Android 16, and iOS whatever - do the platform makers even know how to ship software anymore?

Xbox

• Microsoft unveils the first Xbox-branded third-party gaming handheld as part of its Xbox Games Showcase 2025 event - a few interesting things there as well - COD: BO7, Gears remake, Gears v.next delayed to 2026
• This heavily modified/optimized version of Windows 11 is coming to more gaming handhelds
• Looking to the future: What if this is literally the model for future Xbox console hardware? What if the next Xbox was a NUC?
• More Game Pass titles across platforms for the second half of June
• You can add 4 TB of storage to your Xbox, but it will cost you dearly
• Apple loses again in Epic v. Apple, Fortnite can stay in the App Store and developers can stop getting robbed by Apple
• The Nintendo Switch 2 launched this past week and is apparently the best-selling console of all time at launch
• PS5 controllers to support multiple Bluetooth connections

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Share Feature, image crunching
• App pick of the week: Dia Browser
• RunAs Radio this week: The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenlossie 26

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• In memoriam: Bill Atkinson
• Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.
• The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.
• Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?
• The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.
• Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(
• A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.
• Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps.
• Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites.
• Reddit sues Anthropic.
• Twitter's new encrypted DM's are as lame as the old ones.
• The Login.gov site may not have any backups.
• Apple explores the question of recent Large Reasoning Models "thinking"

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple unveiled many things at WWDC25 this year, including the newest versions of iPadOS and visionOS, with a new unified naming convention across its OS's. Apple Intelligence gets a slew of new capabilities across Apple devices. And the panel remembers Bill Atkinson.

• iPadOS 26 introduces powerful new features that push the capabilities and versatility of iPad even further.
• visionOS 26 introduces powerful new spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
• Apple Intelligence gets even more powerful with new capabilities across Apple devices.
• macOS Tahoe 26 makes the Mac more capable, productive, and intelligent than ever.
• The iPad just got a lot more like a Mac thanks to these 20+ new features.
• Bill Atkinson, hypercard creator and original Mac team member, dies at age 74.

Picks of the Week:

• Mikah's Pick: Hidden Folks+
• Andy's Pick: Astro Pinball by Kyle Sylvestre
• Alex's Pick: Small Rig's Wireless Video Monitor for iPhone
• Leo's Pick: Mitxela Clock

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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• Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
• Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
• A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
• Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
• TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back
• Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data
• The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
• The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
• AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots - Slashdot
• Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
• Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules
• Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design - Slashdot
• Ending USB-C® Port Confusion
• Walmart to Expand Wing Drone Deliveries to 100 Stores
• Nintendo Switch 2 Has Record-Breaking Launch, Selling Over 3 Million Units - Slashdot
• Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You're Not Copyrightable After All
• California county accused of using drones to spy on residents

Host: Leo Laporte

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Google Pixel 5, Amazon One, AppleTV+

• Google's Launch Night in was a snooze
• Amazon Sidewalk will join your neighborhood together - or invade your privacy
• Amazon wants your palm print. Will you give it to them?
• James Bond delayed to 2021: Movie theaters are dying
• Subway sandwiches are not made with bread in Ireland, and their chicken is less than 50% chicken, but Popeye's is the best
• Apple TV+ is about to lose a whole lot of subscribers - what should we watch?
• How soap operas are filming during the pandemic
• Prime day is October 13th - will you shop?
• Libraries are being squeezed by publishers over ebooks and audiobooks
• Google TV is good, but Google seems to have lost interest like they lose interest in everything
• MIxer screws Ninja over; Ninja makes bank
• Sonos sues Google for multi-room audio patents
• Facebook merges Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook logins
• US judge saves TikTok; Fleetwood Mac rejoices
• The Social Dilemma is Reefer Madness for 2020
• If you pay ransomware, the Treasury Department will come after you
• H1-B visas cut off; tech giants cry out

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Iain Thomson, and Simone de Rochefort

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