Jacob Ward joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly! More insights into the Musk vs. OpenAI trial. Everything unveiled at The Android Show: Google I/O Edition 2026. And the Canvas cyberattack.

• Jacob has been covering the Musk vs. OpenAI trial since he was last on the show. He talks about the trial and some of the more interesting things that have occurred during the trial.
• Jason Howell stops by to talk about everything that was unveiled at The Android Show: Google I/O Edition, a lead-up to the big Google I/O event that is taking place on May 19th.
• And Mikah talks about the Canvas cyberattack that occurred on May 7th and how the company paid the ransom that the attackers were demanding from the organization.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward

Guest: Jason Howell

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iOS 26.5 raises the bar with end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging and bakes in a slew of security upgrades that could change how you think about your texts and device safety. Find out what's improved on your iPhone!

• iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 security fixes and privacy updates
• End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging finally arrives on iOS
• New customizable Pride Lumina wallpapers debut for Pride Month
• Reminders app snooze options now display specific times
• Apple Maps adds suggested places based on popularity and search history
• New annual subscription option with monthly payments for apps
• Chatbot voice assistant support comes to CarPlay with tighter safeguards
• Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Trackpad get plug-and-pair feature on iPadOS
• EU users get expanded third-party wearable features, AirPods-style pairing
• Few major changes expected as Apple shifts focus to WWDC and Siri upgrade
• News: Apple Developer app adds WWDC stickers — Clarus the dogcow walks
• App Caps: Anker's clamp-on power hub and Dog Vision camera app picks

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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What if powerful AI tools could run entirely on your Windows PC, with no internet required? This episode puts local small language models to the test and reveals just how close they are to their cloud-based rivals.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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Apple Music's Playlist Playground does more than just pick songs; it curates playlists that actually flow together, tailored to your mood or activity. Mikah shows how to craft and customize dynamic playlists with minimal effort.

• How Playlist Playground differs from classic playlist and Siri options
• Step-by-step demo: Creating playlists with plain language prompts
• Editing and customizing AI-generated playlists, adjusting song choices
• Adding, removing, and refreshing songs within Playlist Playground
• Changing playlist artwork and privacy sharing options
• Organizing Playlist Playground creations for easy access
• Playlist flow and song order improvements with AI
• Age, subscription, and device requirements

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Listener Zorawar Mann has a modest home theater system, but he lacks a center-channel speaker and wonders what he should get. He even sent some photos of his setup. Scott Wilkinson has some thoughts and recommendations that go beyond Zorawar's actual question.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
• Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
• Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
• Students boo AI at commencement: video
• Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
• (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
• NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
• Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
• Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
• Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
• VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
• Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
• Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
• Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
• Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
• The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
• Internet Archive Switzerland
• Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
• Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
• The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
• AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
• Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
• Hallucinopedia
• Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
• Sand shortage
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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It's not just Recall: Security vulnerabilities that require you to sign into an account on your PC are not necessarily vulnerabilities. Also, Windows 11 gets its first big feature updates in this week's Patch Tuesday releases. Snapseed 4.0 comes to Android/iOS, and Claude FM is great for relaxing or getting coding/work done. Plus, the Helium browser has emerged as a favorite with 2 notable caveats: No online settings sync and no mobile client.

Windows

• 25H2/24H2: Xbox Mode, Agents on the Taskbar, more
• 26H1: Smart App Control improvements, other things we saw previously (26H1 is like the stable version of Canary, it seems)
• Microsoft used a new Mythos-like model called MDASH to find vulnerabilities this month, so expect the numbers of fixed bugs to jump in coming months
• A low-latency profile for Windows will let it optimize for app/UI launch performance just like mobile platforms already do
• New builds across most channels with two major changes: Touchpad improvements in Experimental and free upgrade path to Pro for education users in Experimental Beta.

A new threat emerges

• Google announces Googlebook, an Android-based laptop platform with Google Intelligence
• Some morning-after thoughts, including Microsoft promising AI and that Copilot will be the new Start, while Google delivers AI and is remaking the laptop as an intelligent device

AI

• Microsoft Edge gets big AI and productivity updates on desktop and mobile
• An Anthropic engineer argues that AI should use HTML for output, not Markdown. He's right.
• About that 4 GB Gemini Nano model that Chrome secretly downloads
• OpenAI brings Codex to Google Chrome

Security

• A Bitlocker concern emerges
• Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords into plain text when it launches, Microsoft says this is as intended
• Mozilla patched 423 vulnerabilities in Firefox during April, most courtesy of Anthropic Mythos
• 465 million Amazon customers have enrolled in passkeys

Xbox & gaming

• Xbox Insider Program: New build for console with previously announced new boot animation, tiered Gamerscore badges, new filters in Game Library
• Forza Horizon 6 leaks on Steam, those who play it early will be banned until the sun swallows the earth
• Discord Nitro now has an Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition perk
• Mojang will host a special MINECRAFT LIVE event on May 30
• Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5s in most recent quarter, its lowest number yet
• Nintendo sold just 2.49 million Switch 2s in quarter, lowers annual estimates
• Supreme Court gives Apple the 🖕 so Epic v. Apple will head to remedy phase

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: A web browser is the 1st step for anyone looking to escape Big Tech
• App pick of the week: Helium
• RunAs Radio this week: Production LLMs with Vaishnavi Gudur
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Gouden Carolus Port Oak

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microsoft's heavy-handed response, left critical infrastructures exposed.

• The FCC decides router firmware updates are useful.
• Netgear applies for and gets a full FCC pass.
• AI uncovers a 21-year old critical FreeBSD RCE.
• What was behind that Let's Encrypt outage.
• AI model repositories are overflowing with malware.
• The CISA 2015 info-sharing act is being renewed.
• Edge leaves ALL usernames and passwords in the clear.
• An examination of DigiCert's breach and their response

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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