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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

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1078-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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If you purchased an iPhone between June 2024 and March 2025, you could receive a payment from the $250 million settlement over Apple's intelligence features on iPhones! Apple could be using Intel chips again in future Apple products. More Mac mini and Mac Studio models are no longer available on the Apple Store. And Apple is now requiring verification for education discounts.

US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit.

iPhone users could get up to $95 per device as Apple reaches $250M settlement over Siri delays

Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again.

Intel's stock jumped 13% today over Apple chip manufacturing report

Additional Mac mini and Mac Studio models cut from the Apple Store website as AI data centers strain available RAM, SSD supplies

Apple requires verification for education discounts, ENDS discounts for k-12 unless you're homeschooled.

Tim Cook among CEOs confirmed for President Trump's China trip.

More refunds possible for Apple as Trump's 10% global tariffs found illegal too.

Apple releases tvOS 26.5, HomePod 26.5, and visionOS 26.5.

Apple to make design changes in macOS 27 to address Tahoe quirks.

Here's how I finally got Google's uninvited 4GB AI model off my Mac.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel.

Apple kicks off new run of A18 Pro chips as MacBook Neo demand exceeds expectations.

Not dead yet: Apple Vision still has a future.

visionOS 27 will bring these new Vision Pro upgrades.

The $1 Steve Jobs coin.

Google denies copying Apple's Liquid Glass design for Android.

You can purchase Apple's Mac Pro wheels kit for $699.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: whatcable

Christina's Pick: Obsidian's Plugin Site

Andy's Pick: Snapseed Photo Editor

Jason's Picks: Indigo & Gnome

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

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Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica

Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong

Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI

Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October

Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money

Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards

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

Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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