Total Leo (Audio)

Copyright: © This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Latest Episodes:

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

Show notes

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

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

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

Show notes

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

Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

Windows Weekly 998: Laptop Fort Aug 26, 2026

Show notes

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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsor:

canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

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

Show notes

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

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

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

Show notes

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

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

Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

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

Show notes

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

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected