Are we witnessing an AI-fueled gold rush or the early signs of an epic crash? Listen to these hard-hitting discussions on bubbles, breakthroughs, and the real impact behind Silicon Valley's AI obsession.

• Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI
• The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
• 'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges
• Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
• It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
• Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub
• Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
• Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
• Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
• The countdown to the world's first social media ban for children
• US could demand five-year social media history from tourists before allowing entry
• Reddit making global changes to protect kids after social media ban - 9to5Mac
• There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale
• Paramount CEO Made Trump a Secret Promise on CNN in Warner Bros. Convo
• Whatnot's Schlock Empire Shows Digital Live Shopping Can Thrive in America
• The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
• Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
• Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
• Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweeps The Game Awards — analysis and full winners list
• Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
• An ex-Twitter lawyer is trying to bring Twitter back

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This Week is the week for Cosmic! Jeff looks at a tiny NAS and Jonathan chats about the Orange Pi 6 Pro. Gnome says no more AI in extensions, Microsoft brings the Hornet, and you shouldn't be running Gogs. The Rust experiment is over, and CachyOS is eating Arch's lunch! For tips we have StarLit for your terminal weather needs, a primer on keeping eyes on the /var directory, and how to check whether your system has a good time source. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3KPUqki and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Rob Campbell

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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Curt asks Mikah Sargent about a good replacement to the Pocket app, an app that allowed you to save articles for later reading, which Firefox discontinued back in July of 2025.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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This week, we talk with our favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber. When so many people were touting their private spaceflight dreams in the 1980s, Manber took the next enormous stride and actually made it happen. He formed the Office of Space Commerce within the US Department of Commerce at the invitation of the Reagan administration, forged the first commercial relations with the then-Soviet Union, bridged that into the post-USSR period, and was responsible for the first commercial spaceflight to the then-mothballed Soviet-era Mir space station with a crew that stayed there for 70 days. He then went on to develop a variety of commercial space enterprises, from the first commercial platform to release smallsats from the ISS to initiating the Bishop airlock that became part of the space station. He also started Nanoracks, the first privately developed and standardized satellite deployment mechanism to fly. Finally, he initiated Starlab, the private space station currently under development by Voyager Technologies and a consortium of aerospace companies. Join us for this very special episode with one of the key founders of NewSpace!

Headlines:

• SpaceX Plans 2026 IPO and Possible $1.5 Trillion Valuation
• NASA Loses Contact with Mars Maven Orbiter
• Discussion of Star Trek's New Starfleet Academy Series Trailer

Main Topic: Privatizing Orbit and the Roots of Commercial Space

• Jeffrey Manber Details His Early US-Russian Commercial Space Collaborations
• His Space Journalism Origins and Shaping Commercial Space Policies
• Inside the Launch of Commercial Space Fund and the Office of Space Commerce
• First US Commercial Contracts with the Soviet Union and Mir Space Station
• Navigating Washington Policy and Export Licenses for Soviet Deals
• Attempt to Privatize Mir: Mirkorp, Leasing the Space Station, and Commercial Astronaut Crews
• The Rise of Nanoracks and Commercial Payloads on the ISS
• Building Starlab: Partnerships, Scale, Launch Plans, and Commercial Design
• Comparing Starlab's Ambitions to Vast, Axiom, and China's Tiangong
• Evaluating SpaceX's Public Offering and Its Impact on Elon Musk's Strategy
• Jeffrey Manber's Other Projects: Writing About Newspace and President Lincoln
• Thoughts on America's Future in Commercial Orbit and Personal Memoir Plans

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Guest: Jeffrey Manber

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Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly this week! The former CEO of Hinge left his position this week to launch an AI-powered dating app. Pebble is coming out with its take on a smart ring. What is the AI Model Context Protocol? And could grocery delivery services be using AI to charge different prices for groceries to consumers?

• Amanda talks about a new AI-powered dating app called Overtone that the former CEO of Hinge, Justin McLeod, has founded.
• Pebble is coming out with its own smart ring with a built-in microphone, and Mikah has some quarrels with the device.
• Mikah talks about the Model Context Protocol, or MCP: an approach companies like Google and OpenAI have adopted that would allow AI agents to access information online in a standardized manner easily, and now Anthropic has donated the protocol to the Linux Foundation.
• And Derek Kravitz of Consumer Reports joins the show to talk about its investigation into Instacart utilizing artificial intelligence that would offer different prices of the same product to consumers.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling

Guest: Derek Kravitz

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Windows 11 just got a fresh Start menu, and it's not just a pretty face. Find out what Microsoft is quietly changing, how it affects everyone (not just Copilot+ PC users), and why your app-launching habits could shift.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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Tired of scrolling endlessly to find that one hilarious link or important document someone texted you months ago? Mikah Sargent reveals how a simple click unveils every photo, link, and document from your conversations, saving you time and sanity.

• Quick access to shared content using the disclosure arrow on macOS
• Sorting and previewing photos, videos, and shared media within message threads
• Accessing and managing links and documents shared via Messages
• Filtering content types like photos, videos, screenshots, and collaborations for faster retrieval
• Practical tips for recovering past shared files in Messages

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Tired of losing track of shows or playing hide-and-seek with your next binge-watch? Discover unexpected tricks, overlooked apps, and candid talk about making sense of the ever-messy world of streaming from the comfort of your Apple device.

• Tracking what you watch using Apple TV's Up Next queue
• Apple TV integration tips, Netflix limitations, and notification quirks
• iPhone vs. iPad vs. Mac Apple TV app differences and channel management
• Using JustWatch to find where content is streaming
• Sharing watch lists and managing subscriptions in JustWatch
• Pros and cons of digital media purchases versus streaming
• The rise of Letterboxd for movie tracking, reviews, and social sharing
• Trakt for custom watchlists, Plex integration, and episode calendars
• Apple TV "Insight" feature compared to Amazon X-Ray for cast and music info
• Tips for finding movies across services as content moves
• Feedback segment: Transloader app utility for Mac downloads
• App Caps: SwitchBot candle warmer and Festivitas Mac/iOS decoration app

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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Find out how Christopher Nolan's next epic is pushing IMAX technology to new limits, plus replies about wireless surround systems, high-res audio, and finding compact 2.0 speakers! Get real-world answers to listener questions and wise gear recommendations straight from this special chatroom episode!

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What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.

Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi

• ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
• From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
• Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
• Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
• Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
• Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI
• AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
• TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
• The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)
• Techdirt fundraiser
• From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
• Bare Metal Email
• Jeff in Austria
• Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy
• Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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December 2025's Patch Tuesday brought major shifts, but the real action is in Microsoft's pricing, privacy battles, and the arms race to control AI-enabled browsers. Plus, Paul recommends Tiny11 Builder for a clean install, or Win11Debloat for an existing install. Then, Rufus to create installation media without the forced Microsoft account (MSA) sign-in or hardware requirement checks. Use MSEdgeDirect to use the default web browser for stories from Widgets, web-based search results, etc. And ExplorerPatcher can fix the performance and reliability issues in File Explorer.

It's the final Patch Tuesday of 2025

• Major dark mode updates (with a fix for the "flashbang" problem)
• AI Agent in Settings, Click to Do, Windows Studio Effects, and Search improvements for Copilot+ PCs
• Many other improvements: FSE, Share, Settings, Widgets, more

More Windows 11

• New 25H2 preview build on Beta/Dev adds MCP public preview, Quick Machine Recovery auto-enabled, Unified Update Orchestration Platform, Windows MIDI services

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 is getting a lot more expensive in mid-2026. You didn't think all those free AI updates were free, did you?

AI

• Paul has been talking about "programmatic" apps and services because he wasn't sure of a term for this type of interaction. But there is a term for this: Semantic. As in semantic web. And there you go
• Microsoft one of 1,000 companies partnering on Agentic AI Foundation because you're getting agents whether they work or not
• Gartner says NO to AI web browsers
• The New York Times is suing Perplexity for all the obvious reasons
• After a big win in the legal battle with OpenAI
• Opera for Android gets a big AI update
• Google Workspace Studio brings code-free agent creation to business users - automation is a solid AI use case

Xbox

• Xbox Series X|S notably absent during Black Friday sales
• Call of Duty won't repeat the mistakes of the past anymore since it didn't work out twice now
• MS Flight Simulator 2024 is now available on PS5
• Red Dead Redemption comes to mobile for the first time, free with a Netflix account

Tips & Picks

• Tip and app(s) of the week: De-enshittify Windows 11
• RunAs Radio this week: Incident Management and the Crowdstrike Event with Liam Westley
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Old Farm Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey

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