Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.

• Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth
• Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
• OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
• OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft
• Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'
• Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
• OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone
• Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company
• Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
• Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
• Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
• Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database
• OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
• Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
• Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
• The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
• Generative AI vegetarianism
• To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
• * Chloe vs. History
• Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
• noscroll
• Felvidek
• Amazon's AI product podcasts
• 64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
• Timmy's rescue

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nirav Patel

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This episode dives into early MS-DOS/PC-DOS source code, Snapdragon X2 gaming, and the "We are Xbox" messaging. Plus, Paul details 2 big changes in the Windows Insider Program. The latest PowerToys adds 2 useful new utilities and many improvements. And a TWiT listener asked about buying Windows 11 on Arm to virtualize it on a Mac. You're not going to believe what happened next.

Windows

• Microsoft announces big changes to Windows Update
• Microsoft announces Windows Insider Program changes, with Experimental channel
• Hands-on with both predictably shows some nice improvements
• Hands-on with Snapdragon X2 gaming - more wins, but still some losses
• Microsoft open sources some of the earliest MS-DOS source code and related materials
• Intel loses $3.7 billion and Wall Street could not be happier. WTF is happening - Paul has a theory and its called collusion

AI

• Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership again and wait for it...
• OpenAI immediately signs on with AWS
• Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agentic AI features
• Copilot in Outlook can manage your inbox and calendar, but seriously stop using Outloook
• GitHub Copilot's switch to usage-based billing starts June 1
• OpenAI is reportedly working on a phone because of course it is
• Adobe Firefly AI Assistant is now available in preview
• And then Anthropic goes deeper into the creator market

Xbox and gaming

• Microsoft Gaming is being (re)rebranded to Xbox!
• New Xbox leadership can't stop explaining its plans and it's glorious
• Microsoft still plans a mobile game store, waiting on Apple to stop being so f'ing terrible
• Valve's Steam Controller will cost $99 and launches next week

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Windows licenses, $, and you
• App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.99
• RunAs Radio this week: M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Reifel Rye

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

• Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.
• Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.
• Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.
• GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.
• Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.
• A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
• Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The panel can't stop talking about John Ternus becoming the next Apple CEO! Is the iPhone Ultra the official name of Apple's folding iPhone? Apple's product timeline for 2026 and beyond. And Apple's Q2 2026 earnings report is this Thursday, and Jason will be ready with the charts!

• Time to serve some delicious claim chowder regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO transition.
• Apple's 'Ultra' roadmap confirmed: iPhone, MacBook, and more on the way.
• OpenAI set to redefine smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare key to its AI agent phone.
• iPhone 18's new specs might bring subtle regressions to cut costs.
• M6 MacBook Pro: Six new features coming later this year.
• Apple taps Samsung for 20th-anniversary iPhone's quad-curved display.
• Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote.
• What to expect from Apple's Q2 2026 earnings on April 30.
• Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones.
• New Mac malware goes straight for developer keys.
• NASA shares iPhone video capturing Earthshine from Orion during Artemis II.
• Pluribus' & 'Come See Me In The Good Light' win Peabody awards for Apple TV.

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Pick: Oversight
• Christina's Pick: PowerPhotos
• Andy's Picks: Free Comic Book Day 2026 & The Outer Limits Comic Book Store
• Jason's Pick: TextSniper

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

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Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.

• Toyota Woven City
• Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
• Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy
• Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
• Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
  In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
  Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
• OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
• China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
  Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
• Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
• Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
• What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
• Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
• Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
• Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
• Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
• 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
• Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
• The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
• 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet
• To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
• This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
• The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
• This pasta sauce wants to record your family

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Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

• CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
• Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
• News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
• Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
• Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
• SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
• Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
• Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
• Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
• Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
• Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
• AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too
• Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
• New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
• We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
• This pasta sauce wants to record your family
• LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
• Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
• Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
• Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
• AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
• Depths of Wikipedia
• GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
• Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
• Jeff's Gemini happy ending
• The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

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Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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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

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