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Microsoft's AI investments reveal a bizarre financial loop where billions pour into infrastructure, yet profits remain elusive. The hosts break down why the industry's most hyped tech might just be a high-stakes game of circular accounting. Plus, a developer has resurrected Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to run natively on Windows 11! Lastly, Stardock's latest utility replaces Alt + Tab for $7.99.

Windows

25H2: new touchpad gestures, Windows Hello ESS improvements, Widgets improvements, Windows Search improvements, more

26H1: Windows Update calendar-based pausing, Picture Password EOL, Point in time restore, multi-camera support, user folder customization in Setup, etc.

Over 420 bug fixes, but that's over 200 less than last month

Follow-up on Microsoft's AI spending. It's much worse than we knew - And also much worse than we know now

Yes, Microsoft Edge is going all-in on Manifest V3

Proton Drive - Now with a CLI and business features, and it's coming soon to Linux

A developer ported Word for Windows 1.1 to x64

AI

Gemini now has one billion users. But how many pay? - Plus the new Pixel phones are one step sideways, one step back

OpenAI brings ChatGPT to Linux (!)

Xbox and gaming

A new Xbox Elite Series 3 controller leak shows it will have a mini display

Microsoft tests new console features with Xbox Insiders

Id Software brings a new episode to Quake to mark 30th anniversary!

Minecraft is coming to Switch 2

Here comes GTA VI

A Valve partner was hacked, Steam Machine customers warned

Nintendo revenues decline 9.5 percent to ¥518 billion

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: View Git status directly in File Explorer

App pick of the week: AltTabby

RunAs Radio this week: The Content Management System Landscape with Matt Garrepy

Brown liquor pick of the week: Sideshow Lincoln Straight Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber offense and defense.

Anthropic's agentic AI also broke free and hacked others.

We know much (much!) more about the OpenAI breakout.

OpenAI posts that they're pausing "Astra" - even internally.

What was that about AI recently cracking (or denting) cryptography.

Bruce Schneier brilliantly equates AI agents to capricious genies.

Apple doesn't react so well to the new deluge of security reports.

Chrome 149 + 150 updates together fix 1,072 bugs. Yikes.

psSense's creator is working to finish its nfSensei, its successor

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1091-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is escalating. A Chinese RAM supplier rejects Apple's discount demands for RAM. And could Apple shake up its smartwatch lineup?

OpenAI asks for Apple's trade secrets lawsuit to be dismissed, says it was filed without 'adequate investigation'.

Apple lawsuit against OpenAI says iCloud mess didn't play a role.

OpenAI's vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker.

Telegram's takedown caused by planted porn & weaponized App Store policies.

Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store.

iOS 26 gets first jailbreak thanks to Dopamine.

Chinese RAM supplier denies Apple's bid for cheaper RAM.

RAM production worldwide is sold out through 2027.

Apple RAM supplier makes $38B bet on AI boom lasting until 2029.

Apple explores shaking up its smartwatch for a new era.

Apple releases security updates to macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma.

Apple's Private Relay may not be as private as thought.

Apple and Major League Baseball announce September "Friday Night Baseball" schedule and first‑ever broadcast in Apple Immersive.

Klepton - Running Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro, no JIT required!

Picks of the Week

Jason's Pick: Letterboxx

Andy's Pick: Sony NW-A306 Walkman

Christina's Picks: Maxell Wireless Bluetooth Cassette Player & I Have ADHD Skill

Leo's Picks: Kokogol Maclock & NVIDIA DGX Spark

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

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Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms.

Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage

Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact

Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas

Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power

Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks

OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community

AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems

Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers

White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals

AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race

Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs

Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup

Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions

Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply

OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device

Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses

Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue

UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court

License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism

U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens

Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs

Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit

NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year

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Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon

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At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitcoin heists, who draws the line between forbidden knowledge and genuine progress?

• Black Hat and DEF CON: Hacking Stories and Conference Culture

• Zoox Ride-Hailing Hack and Over-the-Air Vulnerabilities

• Autonomous Vehicles, AI, and the Security Implications

• Hosts Share Personal Adoption and Use of AI Tools

• AI-Powered Coding: From Hobbyists to Advanced Agency Chains

• Local Models vs. Cloud AI: Privacy, Cost, and Control

• App Development Democratized: Listeners Build Custom Solutions With AI

• Code Generation, Testing, and Managing AI-Driven Project Cycles

• AI's Role in Security: Vulnerability Discovery, Exploitation, and Patch Challenges

• Technical Debt and the Race to Patch Decades-Old Bugs

• The Dual-Use Dilemma: AI Tools for Both Attack and Defense

• Guardrails, Model Partitioning, and the Fight Over Forbidden Knowledge

• Open vs. Restricted AI: Global Models, Distillation, and Free Speech

• LLM Security Weaknesses: Prompt Injection and Role Confusion Exposed

• The Reliability Problem: Probabilistic AI and Non-Deterministic Software

• AI Progress: Public Perception, Skepticism, and "Hogwash" Rebuttals

• Reflections on AI's Fast Evolution and the Sci-Fi Reality Gap

• Closing Thoughts: Tech Community, Listener Feedback, and the Future of Security Now

Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte, Richard Campbell, and Paul Thurrott

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