Is the AI gold rush running on shaky ground? Get the inside story on Anthropic's blockbuster IPO, massive compute bets, and why some insiders think the industry's economics just don't add up.

• Anthropic's IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril
• DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
• (Marissa Meyer) Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife
• Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data
• Everybody is freaking out over the NYTimes adding AI to the Cooking app
• Wikipedia but only for things a half hour walk away from you
• Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down
• "WSJ: The Bull Case for AI Armageddon
• For investors mulling the Anthropic share offering, a 10% chance of extinction may be a 90% win for your portfolio"

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Microsoft released new Windows 11 Experimental builds. A new round of buyout offers has been presented to 25% of Microsoft's global workforce. Microsoft fixed a major Authenticator flaw for Android. And... no major XBOX news?

Windows

• Paul has confirmed a theory weʼve discussed about why Microsoft is really improving Windows 11 this year.

Windows Insider Program

• Four new builds - Mobile device controls in Quick Settings, native Internet speed test.
  Corporate
• Microsoft offers buyout offers to almost 25 percent of its global workforce.

Hardware

• This week in Paulʼs RTX Spark local AI coding fails - plus, the first step is realizing itʼs not you, itʼs the technology.
• Some advice for using AI.

Software

• Microsoft fixes major Authenticator flaw on Android.
• PowerToys adds two new utilities, so many other updates.
• The Browser Company announces the inevitable end of Arc browser.

AI

• Anthropic files for IPO, warns that its work could end humanity.
• Canva releases its first AI model, for images.
• Opera brings local AI to its desktop web browsers with WebAI standard-to-be.
• Apple is bringing AI assistant to its iWorks apps - Apple copies Microsoft again!

XBOX and Gaming

• No real news this week, which is rare, but a few thoughts about the new Call of Duty.

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the Week: Yes, the Windows Setup workarounds still work in 26H2.
• Windows 11 version 26H2 arrived recently and Iʼve now tested the installer on multiple Arm64 and x64 PCs and the local account workarounds we all know and love still work. My advice: Use Rufus to create install media.
• App pick of the week: Mozilla Firefox
• With a year or so of major improvements to its web browser, Mozilla has launched a big ad campaign to get Firefox users back.
• RunAs Radio this week: PostgreSQL with Elizabeth Christensen
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Vardberg Born

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A newly uncovered PHP vulnerability put nearly 70% of the internet at risk, sending governments and enterprises into a frenzy as AI-powered attackers raced to exploit a flaw that had lurked unnoticed for 14 years. Hear why this could be just the start of an unrelenting wave of security crises.

• We take a detailed look at the many facets and aspects of last week's wild PHP ride:
• What happened.
• How it happened.
• Why it happened.
• How it could have been prevented.
• How it impacted many of our listeners.
• We consider the implications of what is said to be coming next and the idea of temporary "strategic disconnection" from the Internet

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Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Steve Gibson

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People are starting to get their iPhone Duo in hand! Are the reports of the iPhone Duo's screen cracking a concern for the product's viability? And Apple unveils a new iPad Mini and updated MacBook Pro and iMac with the M6 chip!

• Phone Duo review: The future is foldable.
• iPhone Duo: 24 hours in the Splash Zone.
• Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way.
• Apple's foldable iPhone Duo draws early complaints of the screen cracking.
• iPhone Duo teardown: the most repairable foldable has a huge screen problem.
• Novelty apps for the iPhone Duo: Toastie, Duo-Man, Tiny Computers, Delta, and RadPad.
• Building for iPhone Duo, in app developers' own words.
• Apple gives iPad mini its biggest update ever.
• Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6.
• Apple unveils new iMac with M6.
• Hello again, ten years later.

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: ChicagoFLF Regular
• Stephen's Pick: Check the Weather v2
• Shelly's Pick: Metal Braided USB-C Cables

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Apple's folding iPhone Duo lands with unique new features, an evolving developer scene, and early hardware hiccups that raise eyebrows. Also, a PHP bug threatens 70% of the world's websites while AI rapidly changes how exploits are found and patched. Find out how a single overlooked flaw sparked a global scramble and what it reveals about the fragile backbone of the modern web.

• iPhone Duo review
• GM outlines plan for next-gen EV platform, Level 4 autonomous cars
• TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy (NHTSA proposes cyan AV lights)
• Spotify launches its first native in-car app, on Audi's Android Automotive cars
• Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
• The non-gamer CEO racing to save Microsoft's Xbox
• Saudis Aided Family of Engineer Accused of Bugging OpenAI, Prosecutors Say
• How iTunes came back from the dead

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Glenn Fleishman, Allison Johnson, and Sam Abuelsamid

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We're back, and we're forking OBS! Then there's a KDE fork for continued X11 support. We have filesystem schenanigans, including live swapping EXT4 for ZFS and the BeamNG resilient filesystem proposal. Kernel 7.3 is out with the normal slew of fixes and new features, though we're still excited for 7.4, which already has interesting patches landing in the merge window. Then there's the insane security week brought to you by PHP and the number 4. For tips, we have calibredb for managing your library, network-doctor for an all-in-one network toolkit, wipefs for an easy solution for a few specific disk problems, and the we-have-a-problem tool for auditing your CA bundle. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4BFQtnY and don't miss the fun!

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On this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a question from Otis, who relies on the 6-digit text-message codes his bank sends at sign-in but has started to worry about SIM swap attacks, and wants to know whether those codes are still worth anything and whether he can lock down his number at the carrier.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Newspace is hiring! With the major powers heading to the moon, low-Earth orbit becoming busier than ever, and countless new companies entering the space marketplace, the hiring pipeline is more critical than ever. We spoke with Dr. Amanda Smith-Hackler, the Director of Education for the Universities Space Research Association and Principal Investigator for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Scholars and STEM Workforce Development Programs, about the new and exciting opportunities available to young people seeking to enter the space workforce.

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Guest: Dr. Amanda Smith-Hackler

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The big AI apps now have research modes that make you wait for a report full of sources. Is the wait worth it? Mikah Sargent gives ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity the same complicated question, plus ChatGPT with regular web search as a control, and compares how long they take, where they look, what they miss, and how much cleanup each report needs. Then he checks every answer against a rebate and tax-credit answer key built from official sources.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Meta Muse's security flaw. Reviews of the iPhone Duo are starting to come out. Microsoft's plans to overhaul the Xbox department. And Meta is ordered to pay $25 billion in a New Mexico court ruling.

• Mikah shares a PSA on Meta's new Muse AI agent: A security firm found that Muse's share button put conversation titles in the subdomain of public share links!
• Allison Johnson of The Verge joins the show to talk about her time with the iPhone Duo so far and things that she misses on the device so far compared to the Pro lineup.
• Sebastian Herrera of Fortune stops by to talk about how Xbox has lost its focus over the years and what new CEO Asha Sharma, who has no gaming background, is doing to fix it.
• And Isaiah Poritz of Bloomberg Law breaks down the verdict made in a New Mexico court that orders Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties to the state, related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Guests: Allison Johnson, Sebastian Herrera, and Isaiah Poritz

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Bredt Westley wants to stream lossless audio from his iPhone to a Denon AVR using a Chromecast Audio or AirPlay 2, and wonders which method delivers the highest fidelity. Scott Wilkinson has the answer.

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