This Week in Tech 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset
A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age
Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage
Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD
Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It
Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
Fortnite is getting Unity games
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode
A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon
Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner
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Intelligent Machines 846: Chivelord
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Part 1: How I Found Out
$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
His announcement leaving Meta
White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations
Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain
AI love, actually
Cat island
road trip: liquidator's warehouse
Gentype
The Carpenter's Son...
My excerpt from the Q&A
Image of the paper
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jimmy Wales
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Windows Weekly 959: Thurrott Syndrome
Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.
Ignite 2025
Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?
No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again
Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture
MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers
New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service
Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already
Windows 11
Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions
The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected
Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more
AI
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed
Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash
Xbox and gaming
Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming
Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11
FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience
Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising
Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support
Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms
Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20
As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again
Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2
RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Security Now 1052: Global Cellphone Tracking
Think your cell phone is safe from tracking? Steve reveals how global networks let anyone pinpoint your location—no hacking required and no malware involved.
Apple introduces a new Digital ID inside Wallet.
Checkout.com refuses to pay a ransom demand.
Google announces "Private AI Compute" in the cloud.
Google backpedals on their "devs must register" demand.
Win11 added a Passkeys API which 1Password & Bitwarden support.
Russia tracks SIM card appearances to thwart drone usage.
Google sues Chinese Phishing as a Service platform.
Lots of interesting listener feedback.
Global cellphone tracking is alive, well, malware free and a distressingly common commercial enterprise
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1052-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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MacBreak Weekly 999: Rough Depowdering
Speculation about Tim Cook's eventual successor is ramping up, as he may announce his retirement as early as next year. A federal jury in California rules that Apple must pay Masimo $634 million for patent infringement. And Apple unveils how cases for the Apple Watch Series 11 & Ultra 3 were 3D-printed this year.
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook.
Apple COO Jeff Williams is now officially retired.
Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement.
UK refuses Apple's request to appeal $2 billion App Store ruling.
Apple wins camera patent dispute, as Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal.
2026 iPad roadmap: Here's when to expect every upcoming model.
Mapping the future with 3D‑printed titanium Apple Watch cases.
Joe Rogan beats The Daily to top Apple Podcasts' Top Charts for 2025.
Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI'.
Apple's iPhone overhaul will reduce its reliance on annual fall spectacle.
Apple takes 25% share of China smartphone market in October on iPhone 17 demand.
Survey data shows Wi-Fi speeds are much faster on iPhone 17, thanks to Apple N1 chip.
Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup.
Is "F1: The Movie" getting a sequel?
Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died.
Picks of the Week
Andy's Pick: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Shelly's Pick: Magnetic Airpod Pro Lanyard
Jason's Picks: Alternatives to Bartender
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Guest: Shelly Brisbin
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