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Interview with Harper Reed AI Horseless Carriages Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything' Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad: After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data. Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools A New Form of Verification on Bluesky Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says The Welikia project 18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Harper Reed 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bigid.com/im storyblok.com/twittv-25 outsystems.com/twit

It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way? Windows New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2) Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet) Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts AI We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information) Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too Antitrust It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses? OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?) Xbox/gaming Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says Tips and Picks Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: spaceship.com/twit

Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping. Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out. The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life. China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan). CISA says what Oracle still refuses to. Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise. An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!) The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :( A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley. Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe. The EFF is never happy. But especially now, about Florida. Interesting research into ransomware payouts. Windows Sandbox: The amazing gem hidden inside all Windows 10 & 11! Show Notesb - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1022-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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT drata.com/securitynow bigid.com/securitynow 1password.com/securitynow material.security

It's a rumor-filled edition of MacBreak Weekly! Is an updated Apple TV coming soon? New connectivity features are reportedly coming to the upcoming Apple Watch Ultra 3. Apple is dropping the 'available now' tagline from its Apple Intelligence page. And Apple is celebrating Earth Day! Tim Cook honors Pope Francis on X. One of Pope Francis's last prayer intentions urged people to 'look less at screens'. New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year. Apple's new Siri chief enlists Vision Pro talent to start comeback bid. Apple Watch Ultra 3 will go all-in on reducing your iPhone use. Sell Apple stock before it sinks another 30%, analyst says. Apple drops 'available now' from Apple Intelligence page. iPhone 17 Pro could be available in Sky Blue, leaker claims. Images of Apple 'Vision Air' power cable emerge online. Cupertino: City pays Apple $12.1 million following sales tax settlement. Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who's CEO. Apple celebrating Earth Day in these five ways. Meta removes use of Apple Intelligence in Its Apps on iPhone. Apple uses bug report data for AI training in iOS 18.5 beta. Indie App Spotlight: 'Ping Pong Club' brings realistic table tennis to Apple Vision Pro. No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon. Brett Goldstein Compares 'Ted Lasso' Season 4 To Dead Cat: "We Buried It". Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps. M2 iPad Air Runs Windows 11 ARM via Emulation, Thanks to EU Rules. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Domke Wrap Andy's Pick: Mixerology for iOS Jason's Pick: Bird Buddy Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: spaceship.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk OpenAI's secret Yap score 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon' Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart OpenAI is building a social network Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit shopify.com/twit kinsta.com/twit oracle.com/twit monarchmoney.com with code TWIT

Interview with Nikita Roy Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model. Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? The Dark Power of Fraternities Monkey.zip High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication 'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images' Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped Pickled Popeyes A new season of Game Changer Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Nikita Roy 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: spaceship.com/twit monarchmoney.com with code IM

Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes! Windows 11 Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11: Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry Hardware Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10 First major change under new Intel CEO What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group AI Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent Adobe is going agentic too OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink Xbox and games Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google?? COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise App pick of the week: Notion Mail RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly uscloud.com

Android to get "Lockdown Mode". What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox? Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates? My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics. Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu. Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up? Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury. An Apple -vs- the UK update. "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?) The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers. When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages. Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit. Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1021-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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: expressvpn.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com bitwarden.com/twit

Apple gets a break from the Trump tariffs. What's going on with Apple? France is planning country-wide digital IDs on iPhones. Could Instagram be finally coming to the iPad after 15 years? And could Apple be working on two versions of the next Vision Pro headset? Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions. Trump touts how he 'helped' Tim Cook with US tariff pivots. Trump signals semiconductor tariffs are coming 'very soon'. What's wrong with Apple? On-device Apple Intelligence training seems to be based on controversial technology. France plans country-wide digital identity cards on iPhone by the summer. Indonesians can again buy the iPhone 16 as ban is finally lifted. Instagram may finally be coming to iPad after 15 years. Apple Maps on the web leaves beta, now works on mobile devices. Apple rebrands its advertising business as 'Apple Ads'. Apple is reportedly working on two new versions of the Vision Pro. Tim Cook really wants Apple Glass to become a reality. Apple to launch new recycling promo, offering up to $20 discount on AirPods and other accessories. Apple's Beats brand just announced its first-ever USB-C cables. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Mix Effect Pro Doc's Pick: OBSBot Tail 2 Andy's Picks: GoComics & Comics Kingdom Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko Guest: Doc Rock 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: storyblok.com/twittv-25 Melissa.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit

Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law' 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/Twit threatlocker.com/twit NetSuite.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit