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Intelligent Machines 886: Infinite Slop Sep 02, 2026

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Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk
OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns
Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links
Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search
I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help
MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more
(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Unusual Suspects
Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers
Archived video
CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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Windows Weekly 999: Physical Goods Sep 02, 2026

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While Microsoft pushes Copilot+ PCs, NVIDIA storms into the Windows ecosystem with AI-focused Spark machines and game-changing specs, igniting new rivalries with Apple and upending expectations for what local hardware can do. Plus, Atari revives 39 Activision classics for a price that will make retro fans blink, while the Sonos saga continues as it pivots to an open AI platform that might finally win back old loyalties. Finally, Paul's Markdown book will be released sometime in the next week.

Windows

The mystery of 26H2 is now less mysterious
Last week: Week D came and went without a preview release, triggering speculation
Microsoft issues Windows 11 version 26H2 to Release Preview, a first
This means a September or October release to stable. Just guessing, but Preview Update in September, general Update in October is most likely
Version numbers don't matter much anymore. There are no unique 26H2 features, just a few unique 26H2 presets - These include Point-in-time restore and Memory Integrity Protection being on by default
Two 26H1 pre-release builds with little to speak of
IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin
Acer is first out of the gates with dozens of new PCs, including one based on the NVIDIA RTX Spark
EU General Court confirms that Microsoft Edge is not a gatekeeper
Visual Studio Code now has a full Markdown Editor experience
Brave now offers free email aliases, and will have a premium option soon
Firefox for iOS now has integrated ad blocking
NVIDIA - $96.2 billion in revenues, up 106 percent YOY
Dell - record $47 billion in revenues, but it's all from server/infrastructure
HP - $15.7 billion in revenues, up 12.5 percent - $11.8 billion from PCs, vs. $15 billion for all Dell client products

AI/dev

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for stealing their music
Gemini Notebook gets first Expert Intelligence upgrade with integrated e-book support
Sonos announces Sonos 27 OS with major AI functionality
Microsoft moves WinUI development fully to GitHub ahead of open-sourcing it

XBOX and gaming

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, more coming to Game Pass
Every Activision title for the Atari 2600 is being reissued in cartridge form, but it's going to cost you

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Markdown: A Field Guide for Writers
App pick of the week: ImageGlass 10
RunAs Radio this week: Reimagining Intranets with Susan Hanley
Brown liquor pick of the week: Macaloney's Cath-Nah-Aven

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Security Now 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings Sep 01, 2026

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AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices.

A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse.
Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent.
A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance.
How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags?
What did Claude make of last week's podcast?
Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection?
A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks".
AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts.
Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms?
A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials".
The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies".
Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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MacBreak Weekly 1040: New CEO, Who Dis? Sep 01, 2026

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John Ternus is officially Apple CEO as of September 1st. Apple pushes back against OpenAI's attempts to delay its lawsuit against the AI company. What will Apple unveil at its upcoming September 'Surprise and Shine' event? And is Apple's immersive baseball event a hit?

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple.
Tim Cook, the man who grew Apple by trillions of dollars.
Apple's Ternus takes the reins as CEO, with AI as job No. 1.
OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple.
Potential Apple RAM supplier CXMT sues feds to take it off the supplier blacklist.
China's CXMT makes breakthrough in advanced memory chips.
Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine'.
What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9.
Leaker says iPhone Ultra will come in these colors, with one surprise.
Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: GroxConnect/GroxStudio
Andy's Pick: Lenovo ThinkVision M14
Jason's Pick: Better Desktop by Knightscape in the Discord

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This Week in Tech 1099: Pantsless Whims Aug 30, 2026

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As AI-generated video blurs reality and new Macs hit five-figure price tags, the conversation digs into who's left behind in the race to automate and whether "democratizing" tech actually delivers on its promise. Find out how NVIDIA, Meta, and even Apple are reshaping the tech game, and why it might not be good news for everyone.

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
NVIDIA's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending
Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio
How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger
'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance
The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms
With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot
Skynet went live yesterday
Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harry McCracken, and Molly White

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Intelligent Machines 885: Get on the Butter Box Aug 26, 2026

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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?

(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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Windows Weekly 998: Laptop Fort Aug 26, 2026

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Microsoft tries to prove Windows on ARM is ready for prime time, but behind the PR push, unresolved questions about compatibility, branding, and a tepid market threaten to derail the company's ambitions. Also, PowerToys 0.101 is here with Windows Hopper and multiple improvements! Plus, Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac launches.

Windows

If a Week D falls in the woods and no one installs it, did a Week D really happen?
Theory: This is the big one, with the three big changes Microsoft promised this year. Basically, this is Windows 11 version 26H2
Three new builds across Beta, Experimental, and Experimental (26H1) with a modernized AutoPlay experience and a new "Open apps maximized" accessibility feature
Microsoft reminds business customers that Windows on Arm is terrific ahead of Nvidia RTX Spark launch
Totally coincidental that this happened on the same day that Apple announced a new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and M5 Max

Microsoft 365

OneDrive for Mac gets native sync engine
Proton Mail gets automatic and customizable category filtering

AI/dev

Bill Gates issues a strong warning on the dangers of AI. And you're not going to believe what number two is
WSJ report echoes the complaints that Paul has been making for years. Again
Adobe Firefly gets production-quality music, speech, and sound effect generation capabilities
Apple Music will start labeling AI-generated music
.NET Conf 2026 on track for November with .NET 11

XBOX and gaming

XBOX testing long-awaited disc to digital entitlements
The ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 is available now for $1299, or in a $2499 bundle
Rumor: Microsoft prepping an Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console for November
Update: it's real. The XBOX 25th anniversary collection arrives November 13
Microsoft announces (third party) Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection of hardware peripherals
IKEA has designed some XBOX-influenced furniture and it is amazing
Rockstar Games weighs in on leaks as GTA VI reveal arrives (tomorrow)
Commodore announces Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC, consoles
NVIDIA brings GeForce Now to Firefox

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Expose yourself to other points of view
App pick of the week: PowerToys
RunAs Radio this week: Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill
Brown liquor pick of the week: SpiceBox Spiced Whisky

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Security Now 1093: Tokens in the Stream Aug 25, 2026

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Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are.

Understanding the controversy surrounding "AI Model Distillation"
Anthropic moves to make their most powerful Mythos 5 model more widely available.
Bitwarden's "Secrets Manager" offering prevents agentic and prompt injection abuse.
The astounding and disturbing truth about the way conversation AI actually works

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1093-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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MacBreak Weekly 1039: The Hand of Ryan Tedder Aug 25, 2026

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Surprise: there are new Mac minis and Mac Studios! Tim Cook has a farewell party when he is no longer CEO in September. Apple conducts layoffs in the Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video & Gaming departments. And Walmart finally adds Google and Apple Pay.

Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro.
Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra.
Tim Cook's farewell party.
HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch.
MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall.
Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities.
Apple cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming teams.
Apple removes some fees for App developers in European Union.
Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Google's new Pixel 11 offers an incredible camera feature that Apple should copy.
Here's everything new Apple TV has coming in September.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: TMOG
Christina's Picks: 9 to 5 and CheapCharts
Andy's Pick: Trio
Jason's Pick: Imagination Library

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This Week in Tech 1098: Usain Volt Aug 23, 2026

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion lawsuit, flock cameras are sparking a privacy revolt, and data centers may be fueling the next bubble. This episode pulls back the curtain on who's watching, who's profiting, and who could pay the price.

Meta's Big Reckoning Is Here
Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction
Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230
The $1.4 Trillion State Tort Raid on Meta
Google's Pixel 11 Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?
Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little
Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by the end of 2026
NVIDIA to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion
Why Big Tech's AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems
New Chinese model adds to AI competition
Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
Flock mistakenly flags 2 different auto writers for "stolen" license plates
Go Flock Yourself
Flock socks for UV protection
Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded
China Is Strapping 'Digital Bombs' to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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